Jahangir, a depressed middle-aged intellectual, invites his friends to his villa in the country for a weekend-long birthday celebration, where he reveals that he has only a few months to live. If the premise sounds depressing, Soroush Sehat’s debut feature is anything but. Deftly mixing poignant moments with dark comedy, Dance with Me is reminiscent of The Big Chill in the way jealousies, rivalries, and good-humored fellowship play out among this group of old friends amidst the villa’s idyllic natural surroundings. Sehat even adds touches of surrealism, such as a classical string ensemble that occasionally appears to Jahangir alone, and a cheeky re-enactment of Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper. Winner of the best director and best actor awards at the 2019 Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran.