A deaf and non-speaking 11-year-old boy’s ceaseless search for the audio cassette containing his mother’s final words before her death is rendered as an impossible yet irresistible search for memory, identity and the very materials of cinema.

"Amir Naderi’s latest black-and-white excursion into obsession may be the most extended mise en scene of pure frustration in cinema history[...]. Formally abstract yet intensely emotional, it returns to the concentrated minimalism of Naderi’s seminal Iranian works, but with a frenzy and fragmentation all the stronger for being crammed into two impossibly claustrophobic spaces." – Ronnie Scheib, Variety

"All of my experience over the years in making films came together in this film[…]. In making Sound Barrier I discovered how much I could push beyond my limits, and in so doing, learned many things about myself and my work[...]. It was one of the reasons I left my country. A film about the moon. I have always had a dream of being on the moon; it is exactly where I want to be. This is the beginning of a new path for me." – Amir Naderi

This screening will be introduced by filmmaker Amir Naderi.