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About Elly (Persian : درباره الی) is a 2009 Iranian film directed by Asghar Farhadi. Farhadi won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 59th Berlin Film Festival for this film. The film was also nominated for 10 awards at the 27th Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran where Farhadi won the Crystal Symorgh for best directing. About Elly is also Iran's official selection for the competition in Foreign Film section in 82nd Academy Awards. It competed against films such as Bist, Tardid, Bipooli for Iran's submission in the Academy Awards.
A group of middle-class Iranian friends travel to the shores of the Caspian Sea on a three-day vacation. They are former classmates at the Law faculty in the university. Three couples include Sepideh and her husband Amir who have a little daughter. Shohreh and her husband Peiman who have two children including their little son Arash. Nazi and her husband Manoochehr are the third family. The trip is planned by Sepideh who has brought along her daughter's kindergarten teacher Elly in order to introduce her to Ahmad, a friend who has come back from Germany probably for marriage.
They all go to the villa that Sepideh has booked from Tehran, but the rural woman in charge tells them that the owners of the place are coming back tomorrow, so they can't stay there. At las the old woman suggests them to stay in a deserted villa that needs a lot of fixation. There is no signal for the cell phone and they have to go to the old woman's house in order to make calls. Sepideh tells lie to the old woman about the relationship between Elly and Ahmad. She says they're married and are there for their honey moon.
Elly is a little shy among them and Ahmad's look conveys a lot of passion toward her. Elly at the other side has also the tendency to Ahmad. She calls her mother and tell another lie to her that she's with her co-workers at the Sea-side. She says she will go back to Tehran tomorrow...
