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This is... the superman with the broken arm. | 0:00:02 | 0:00:04 | |
Mr Action Man with his broken arm. | 0:00:04 | 0:00:06 | |
He fell off the rollerblades. | 0:00:06 | 0:00:09 | |
Daddy, just say something to your family, your mum and dad. | 0:00:09 | 0:00:12 | |
No, well, you're my family... | 0:00:12 | 0:00:13 | |
No, your mum and dad! | 0:00:13 | 0:00:15 | |
No, I'll tape for them later. | 0:00:15 | 0:00:17 | |
This is for us. | 0:00:19 | 0:00:20 | |
-I need your... -Can I have the camera, please? | 0:00:21 | 0:00:23 | |
MEN SHOUT | 0:00:29 | 0:00:31 | |
MEN SHOUT | 0:00:37 | 0:00:39 | |
I was 16 when I left Iran, | 0:00:39 | 0:00:41 | |
I was involved in throwing stones at the tanks. | 0:00:41 | 0:00:44 | |
My dad was in Israel. | 0:00:45 | 0:00:46 | |
When he came back, within five days I was in the UK. | 0:00:46 | 0:00:49 | |
CAR HORNS HONK | 0:00:51 | 0:00:53 | |
They didn't have any idea where the West was. | 0:00:54 | 0:00:57 | |
Or what... How... | 0:00:57 | 0:00:59 | |
What kind of culture was here, they just sent us | 0:00:59 | 0:01:01 | |
because they didn't want us to be involved in the revolution, | 0:01:01 | 0:01:05 | |
be involved in the rioting, so they done us a favour by sending us here, | 0:01:05 | 0:01:09 | |
but they had no clue, they didn't know where... | 0:01:09 | 0:01:12 | |
where England was, you know? | 0:01:12 | 0:01:14 | |
They just sent us, they just told us to, | 0:01:14 | 0:01:16 | |
"Get on that plane, go and meet your cousin," and that's it. | 0:01:16 | 0:01:20 | |
When we came, we had two suitcases, about 40 kilos in each, | 0:01:25 | 0:01:30 | |
one of those large ones that you get. | 0:01:30 | 0:01:32 | |
My mum had put rice in it... | 0:01:32 | 0:01:36 | |
About maybe 20 kilos of rice. | 0:01:37 | 0:01:40 | |
And, I mean, we'd never cooked rice before. | 0:01:40 | 0:01:42 | |
Back home, my mum always does the cooking, right? | 0:01:42 | 0:01:45 | |
One day, me and my brother said, | 0:01:45 | 0:01:46 | |
"Look, we have to get rid of these, these are going off or something." | 0:01:46 | 0:01:50 | |
We used to fill our pockets with rice, go along to the college, | 0:01:50 | 0:01:55 | |
but on the way, we just used to empty it in the street, you know? | 0:01:55 | 0:01:59 | |
We didn't know what to do, so... | 0:01:59 | 0:02:01 | |
Where were you heading out to? | 0:02:02 | 0:02:04 | |
-The Bot? -No, I was going to work. | 0:02:05 | 0:02:07 | |
-Going to work?! -Yeah! | 0:02:07 | 0:02:09 | |
It would have been, like, '99 maybe, I think. | 0:02:09 | 0:02:12 | |
There's Jake there, speak of the devil. Selfie, look at that. | 0:02:13 | 0:02:16 | |
Mean streak. | 0:02:16 | 0:02:17 | |
-LAUGHTER -< Yes! | 0:02:17 | 0:02:20 | |
I remember the first time I saw him, he was only four hours old, | 0:02:20 | 0:02:23 | |
or something, and I held him, | 0:02:23 | 0:02:25 | |
and his head went back when I held him... | 0:02:25 | 0:02:29 | |
Hm! I remember, of course, | 0:02:30 | 0:02:32 | |
it's just like yesterday he was only that size and now look at him. | 0:02:32 | 0:02:36 | |
HASSAN SPEAKS IN OWN LANGUAGE | 0:02:41 | 0:02:44 | |
Huh? | 0:02:46 | 0:02:47 | |
'I never planned...to become a dad, you know, it just happened.' | 0:02:47 | 0:02:53 | |
If I had known all the responsibilities | 0:02:53 | 0:02:57 | |
and all the difficulties that the two cultures were going to bring... | 0:02:57 | 0:03:01 | |
..I probably would have... | 0:03:02 | 0:03:04 | |
-WOMAN: -Ready? | 0:03:04 | 0:03:05 | |
..chosen other ways of starting a family, you know? | 0:03:07 | 0:03:11 | |
Even the conversation in the house, it was never about... | 0:03:15 | 0:03:18 | |
Never about the Northern Ireland football team, | 0:03:18 | 0:03:21 | |
or about GAA or about any sort of, like, | 0:03:21 | 0:03:24 | |
day-to-day topics that other average households would be talking about, | 0:03:24 | 0:03:28 | |
other Northern Irish households would be talking about, | 0:03:28 | 0:03:30 | |
so when I would go to school or when I would go out | 0:03:30 | 0:03:34 | |
and play in the streets, | 0:03:34 | 0:03:35 | |
the conversations happening in the group, I wasn't able to, | 0:03:35 | 0:03:39 | |
like, join in or partake, even though I was the same age as them, | 0:03:39 | 0:03:43 | |
even though, in a way, I had every other thing the same. | 0:03:43 | 0:03:48 | |
There was these gaps, so the only thing I could really do was | 0:03:48 | 0:03:52 | |
sort of build my own blocks in order to create, you know, a person. | 0:03:52 | 0:03:58 | |
ROCK MUSIC PLAYS | 0:03:58 | 0:04:00 | |
-Amazing, what are you... -GENERAL HUBBUB | 0:04:03 | 0:04:06 | |
I brought this album from Iran, so it's 36 years old, 37 years old... | 0:04:06 | 0:04:11 | |
-These photos have been in it for 37 years. -Mm! | 0:04:12 | 0:04:14 | |
-My cousin... -Mm-hm. | 0:04:14 | 0:04:16 | |
-Javed, my younger brother. -Mm-hm. | 0:04:16 | 0:04:20 | |
I feel like a bridge between two cultures... | 0:04:20 | 0:04:22 | |
..and trying to balance it is very difficult, you know? | 0:04:24 | 0:04:27 | |
-BUS TANNOY: -The next stop will be for Terminal Three. | 0:04:34 | 0:04:37 | |
INAUDIBLE | 0:04:41 | 0:04:44 | |
Nice. | 0:04:44 | 0:04:45 | |
How long is this from Tehran? | 0:04:45 | 0:04:47 | |
Uh... This is about 45 minutes from Tehran. | 0:04:47 | 0:04:51 | |
HAUNTING MUSIC PLAYS | 0:04:54 | 0:04:57 | |
Before I came here... | 0:05:11 | 0:05:13 | |
..I was expecting to really be in a foreign country. | 0:05:14 | 0:05:17 | |
Walking outside of the terminal when we first arrived, | 0:05:17 | 0:05:22 | |
I was looking across and taking in the smell and the sounds... | 0:05:22 | 0:05:26 | |
It had been as if I had always been here. | 0:05:27 | 0:05:29 | |
CAR HORNS BEEP | 0:05:30 | 0:05:32 | |
< Thank you. | 0:05:39 | 0:05:40 | |
We made it after five...five years! | 0:05:40 | 0:05:44 | |
Well, if you were counting when I was, like, still in the womb, | 0:05:46 | 0:05:48 | |
then, yeah, maybe that would be, like... | 0:05:48 | 0:05:50 | |
Yeah, 25½ years, so... | 0:05:50 | 0:05:53 | |
No, overall I would say it's a bit too overwhelming | 0:05:53 | 0:05:56 | |
to take in at the moment... | 0:05:56 | 0:05:59 | |
It's like everything I expected, | 0:05:59 | 0:06:00 | |
but nothing quite at all what I expected. | 0:06:00 | 0:06:03 | |
It's so open, like, it's such a breathable city... | 0:06:05 | 0:06:09 | |
that I was expecting just this packed hub | 0:06:09 | 0:06:14 | |
of just disorientation and, well, bewilderment | 0:06:14 | 0:06:18 | |
and it's just, it's absolutely beautiful. | 0:06:18 | 0:06:20 | |
And I was saying to Ben... | 0:06:21 | 0:06:23 | |
.."How the hell has it taken me this long to get here?" | 0:06:24 | 0:06:27 | |
Come on. | 0:06:27 | 0:06:29 | |
-Godspeed! -Oh, gosh! | 0:06:30 | 0:06:32 | |
He's pretty polite. | 0:06:35 | 0:06:36 | |
TANNOY ANNOUNCEMENT | 0:06:39 | 0:06:42 | |
HAUNTING MUSIC PLAYS | 0:06:43 | 0:06:46 | |
MAN SPEAKS IN OWN LANGUAGE | 0:06:55 | 0:06:58 | |
The community's sense of this country is just, | 0:06:58 | 0:07:01 | |
you can't really find an adjective to describe it. | 0:07:01 | 0:07:04 | |
CITY HUBBUB | 0:07:04 | 0:07:07 | |
There's just a general sense of kindness. | 0:07:10 | 0:07:12 | |
For a country that has such a young population, | 0:07:14 | 0:07:18 | |
they're so welcoming and warming to outsiders, | 0:07:18 | 0:07:20 | |
because this country has just been closed off, it hasn't been able... | 0:07:20 | 0:07:25 | |
It's not been allowed to really expand or go anywhere else. | 0:07:25 | 0:07:29 | |
Everyone's talking about, "Where have you been?" | 0:07:30 | 0:07:32 | |
and, "Well, what's that country like?" | 0:07:32 | 0:07:34 | |
you know, anywhere which you just take for granted as a European. | 0:07:34 | 0:07:39 | |
They are completely fascinated, | 0:07:39 | 0:07:40 | |
just by what we have all shared when we've came here, | 0:07:40 | 0:07:43 | |
it's just complete and utter fascination of... | 0:07:43 | 0:07:46 | |
what it's been like to live in Iran for the past few decades. | 0:07:46 | 0:07:52 | |
INAUDIBLE | 0:07:54 | 0:07:56 | |
LAUGHTER, INAUDIBLE | 0:07:59 | 0:08:01 | |
-Where's... Where is here? -So, this is Northern Ireland. | 0:08:02 | 0:08:06 | |
-Northern Ireland? -So... | 0:08:06 | 0:08:07 | |
-Yeah, it's... -A very good place? -Yeah. | 0:08:07 | 0:08:09 | |
Yes, my cousin living here, Dublin. | 0:08:09 | 0:08:11 | |
-It's quite an expensive place... -Mm-hm... | 0:08:11 | 0:08:14 | |
CHILDREN YELL PLAYFULLY | 0:08:24 | 0:08:27 | |
THEY SPEAK IN OWN LANGUAGE | 0:08:38 | 0:08:41 | |
HAUNTING MUSIC PLAYS | 0:08:52 | 0:08:55 | |
THEY CHATTER | 0:08:59 | 0:09:03 | |
HAUNTING MUSIC CONTINUES | 0:09:03 | 0:09:06 | |
It's a special kind of salad called Shiraz. | 0:09:33 | 0:09:36 | |
All of us... | 0:09:41 | 0:09:42 | |
-Shit! -LAUGHTER | 0:09:42 | 0:09:45 | |
We call it goosht koob. | 0:09:48 | 0:09:49 | |
-Goosht koob? -Yeah. | 0:09:50 | 0:09:51 | |
You're pushing the meat, something like that... | 0:09:51 | 0:09:54 | |
-You need to push. -Yeah. And, oh! | 0:09:54 | 0:09:58 | |
-LAUGHTER -OK, tell us. | 0:09:58 | 0:10:00 | |
-LAUGHING: -I'm... I'm going... | 0:10:02 | 0:10:03 | |
She'll tell you! | 0:10:03 | 0:10:05 | |
The style of pushing this one for men is in this way. | 0:10:06 | 0:10:12 | |
OK? And there is a sentence that says, when a boy do it... | 0:10:12 | 0:10:17 | |
All those people say, if your penis don't move, | 0:10:18 | 0:10:22 | |
it's the time to marry! | 0:10:22 | 0:10:24 | |
SHE LAUGHS | 0:10:24 | 0:10:27 | |
-That's good to hear. -What am I doing? | 0:10:30 | 0:10:32 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:10:32 | 0:10:35 | |
-Divorce! -Yeah! -LAUGHTER | 0:10:35 | 0:10:38 | |
Well, what's... What's your penis doing? | 0:10:38 | 0:10:41 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:10:41 | 0:10:43 | |
OK, be careful. | 0:10:43 | 0:10:44 | |
LAUGHTER So, am I doing it wrong? | 0:10:44 | 0:10:47 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:10:47 | 0:10:50 | |
OK, let's try it. | 0:10:52 | 0:10:54 | |
-These here? -Yeah, and these. | 0:10:57 | 0:11:00 | |
HAUNTING MUSIC PLAYS | 0:11:00 | 0:11:03 | |
INAUDIBLE | 0:11:07 | 0:11:09 | |
-Irish? -Yeah, yeah. | 0:11:16 | 0:11:17 | |
Irish. | 0:11:17 | 0:11:18 | |
-Do you want to have tea? -If you are offering, that would be great. | 0:11:18 | 0:11:24 | |
No here, over here. | 0:11:24 | 0:11:25 | |
-In Iran, we don't have a carpenter girl, we are the first one, I think. -Yeah. | 0:11:26 | 0:11:30 | |
Always, there are some more rules for girls that, | 0:11:30 | 0:11:34 | |
"You should do that, you should do that, you can do that," | 0:11:34 | 0:11:37 | |
but we just want to show that we can do whatever we like! | 0:11:37 | 0:11:41 | |
-They are all handmade. -Handmade. | 0:11:41 | 0:11:44 | |
-Beautiful. -Yeah. | 0:11:44 | 0:11:46 | |
-Lovely wood, isn't it? -Can we play? -Yes, he knows! | 0:11:46 | 0:11:50 | |
SHE SPEAKS IN OWN LANGUAGE | 0:11:50 | 0:11:52 | |
No, me and him? | 0:11:52 | 0:11:53 | |
-You want to play? -Yeah. | 0:11:53 | 0:11:55 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:11:55 | 0:11:57 | |
Why is everyone laughing? I don't see... | 0:11:57 | 0:12:00 | |
I don't know why that's so funny. | 0:12:00 | 0:12:02 | |
MAN SPEAKS IN OWN LANGUAGE | 0:12:02 | 0:12:04 | |
-DRIVER: -We're going towards Afghanistan right now. | 0:12:06 | 0:12:09 | |
HAUNTING MUSIC PLAYS | 0:12:09 | 0:12:12 | |
It struck me last night arriving in the Mashhad | 0:12:38 | 0:12:42 | |
and climbing up onto the big rock in the city... | 0:12:42 | 0:12:46 | |
..and I was looking over the horizon | 0:12:47 | 0:12:49 | |
and I was just thinking about my dad when he was younger than I am now | 0:12:49 | 0:12:55 | |
-and him walking the streets... -MEN SING | 0:12:55 | 0:12:58 | |
..and in the way of me following in his footsteps and it just... | 0:12:58 | 0:13:02 | |
..became very poignant and I was... | 0:13:03 | 0:13:07 | |
I just couldn't believe that I am in the same place | 0:13:07 | 0:13:10 | |
that my dad was born... | 0:13:10 | 0:13:12 | |
This is where he still calls home and this is where | 0:13:12 | 0:13:16 | |
I should be coming home, the fact that I'm actually an Iranian. | 0:13:16 | 0:13:21 | |
HAUNTING MUSIC PLAYS | 0:13:21 | 0:13:23 | |
I'll never have that sort of welcome again, like that, and... | 0:14:03 | 0:14:08 | |
When I was walking up the steps to see... | 0:14:09 | 0:14:12 | |
And just caught the glimmer, a little glimpse of my granny, | 0:14:12 | 0:14:15 | |
just by the side of the doorframe, and I peeked my head around | 0:14:15 | 0:14:20 | |
and saw her eyes, that was just, like, | 0:14:20 | 0:14:22 | |
"I'm home, that's my granny..." | 0:14:22 | 0:14:25 | |
THEY CHATTER | 0:14:29 | 0:14:31 | |
Walking in and meeting everyone else | 0:14:31 | 0:14:32 | |
and just being completely overwhelmed, completely overwhelmed. | 0:14:32 | 0:14:36 | |
Hi! | 0:14:36 | 0:14:37 | |
'Um... | 0:14:37 | 0:14:39 | |
'Not even being able to really recognise people | 0:14:39 | 0:14:41 | |
'I've seen in photographs before | 0:14:41 | 0:14:42 | |
'and just this embrace and looking around | 0:14:42 | 0:14:47 | |
'and everyone's there for some bloody reason to see me, | 0:14:47 | 0:14:51 | |
'I'm just like...' | 0:14:51 | 0:14:52 | |
HE SPEAKS IN OWN LANGUAGE | 0:14:52 | 0:14:55 | |
THEY CHATTER | 0:14:55 | 0:14:58 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:14:59 | 0:15:02 | |
Having my granny stroke my hair | 0:15:10 | 0:15:12 | |
and my family's been so warm and giving... | 0:15:12 | 0:15:14 | |
..the entire time, I was like... | 0:15:16 | 0:15:17 | |
.."Why-Why-Why are you being so nice to me?" | 0:15:19 | 0:15:22 | |
I remember telling Ilias, you know, "Can you tell her that | 0:15:24 | 0:15:28 | |
"I'm really sorry that it's taken me so long to come here..." | 0:15:28 | 0:15:33 | |
"..and that I can't... I'm sorry, I can't speak Farsi?" | 0:15:34 | 0:15:38 | |
And she was just so lovely, she just kept giving me melon, | 0:15:38 | 0:15:41 | |
and kept telling me to eat. | 0:15:41 | 0:15:43 | |
ALL CHATTER | 0:15:45 | 0:15:48 | |
And I know I've been feeling that I should have came here earlier. | 0:15:51 | 0:15:54 | |
But I would NOT have been able to take it in the way I have | 0:15:54 | 0:15:58 | |
as I have at this age | 0:15:58 | 0:16:00 | |
and been able to appreciate everything that's just been given... | 0:16:00 | 0:16:04 | |
from all of my family members and all the people who I've met. | 0:16:04 | 0:16:07 | |
HAUNTING MUSIC PLAYS | 0:16:07 | 0:16:10 | |
-It's... -HE SIGHS | 0:16:54 | 0:16:56 | |
If I'm being really honest, I don't know... | 0:17:01 | 0:17:03 | |
..why I'm so special to them, it's very strange. | 0:17:05 | 0:17:08 | |
Yeah. | 0:17:08 | 0:17:09 | |
WOMEN CHATTER | 0:17:11 | 0:17:13 | |
She's beautiful. | 0:17:17 | 0:17:18 | |
'It was very strange not to have my dad here...' | 0:17:18 | 0:17:20 | |
-VOICE BREAKING: -Like, it's been... But they had him on the... | 0:17:22 | 0:17:25 | |
on the internet. And they were passing him around... | 0:17:25 | 0:17:28 | |
HE SIGHS | 0:17:29 | 0:17:31 | |
And when... When the phone came to me and my gran... | 0:17:31 | 0:17:36 | |
It... It really felt like I was back in Belfast cos this is the... | 0:17:38 | 0:17:42 | |
It's the last time we were all together. | 0:17:42 | 0:17:43 | |
It's just making me realise the importance of it all, you know? | 0:17:45 | 0:17:49 | |
Uh, the whole family side of things. | 0:17:51 | 0:17:53 | |
# That a change is going to come for me, I believe | 0:17:53 | 0:18:00 | |
# All my life Been in a summer dream | 0:18:02 | 0:18:07 | |
# But this has been a cold and stark awakening | 0:18:08 | 0:18:13 | |
# Are we gonna have to learn to let it go? | 0:18:15 | 0:18:21 | |
# Are we gonna have to learn to let it go-o-o-o-o? | 0:18:23 | 0:18:30 | |
# I said, baby, please | 0:18:30 | 0:18:34 | |
# Are you ever gonna come back to me? | 0:18:34 | 0:18:37 | |
# Cos lately I've been thinking you won't | 0:18:37 | 0:18:45 | |
# And honestly | 0:18:45 | 0:18:48 | |
# If you're just looking for the company | 0:18:48 | 0:18:52 | |
# Then maybe I've got what you want... # | 0:18:52 | 0:18:57 |
