Chera Gerye Nemikoni (Why Don't You Cry?) follows Ali Shahnaz, a man shaped by loss who has buried his grief so deeply that tears no longer come. After losing his parents and then his newly-married younger brother in a tragic accident, Ali retreats into an impenetrable shell of emotional numbness. The people around him — a friend, a colleague, his aunt, a woman he is beginning to love, and a twin brother living as a shepherd in the remote central plateau of Iran — each urge him, in their own way, to let go and weep. A quietly powerful Iranian drama that asks what it truly means to mourn, and whether healing can begin without a single tear.
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