Realillusion

Plot

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Soma/Homa unfolds within the confines of a modest student flatshare in a small Iranian town, where a group of young people navigate the fragile terrain of everyday life. Between moments of laughter, silence, intoxication, and quiet despair, the film traces their shared routines, longings, and disillusionments—shaped by the unseen pressure of state repression. It is a meditation on life and death, drugs and dreams, where survival is both physical and emotional.

Blurring the boundaries between documentary and experimental cinema, Soma/Homa occupies a space where reality dissolves into poetic abstraction. The camera lingers, observes, and meanders—capturing fleeting gestures of resistance and tenderness. In this intimate portrait of youth on the margins, the film reflects on what it means to live collectively under constraint: to imagine, to endure, and to dream.