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All screenings will include a Q&A with Director, Writer, and Producer Mary Darling and Writer and Producer Clark Donnelly.

Orinda/San Fran, CA

October 23rd - 7:00 pm

Chapel Hill, NC

October 27th - 6:30 pm

Chapel Hill, NC

October 28th - 6:30 pm

Philadelphia, PA

November 1 - 11 am

Boston, MA

November 6 - 6:30 pm

Phoenix, AZ

November 14 - 4:30 pm

Atlanta, GA

November 17 - 6:30 pm

Austin, TX

November 21 at 2 pm & 7 pm

Houston, TX

November 23 at 7 pm

More Cities Coming Soon!

A FORBIDDEN LOVE. A FAITH WORTH RISKING EVERYTHING FOR.

CBS News LA

“Mary Darling, director/writer of "‘Cast Aside the Clouds,’ talks about the film and how it’s a story of resilience, prejudice, and the search for truth.”

KTLA 5 News

“Anthony Azizi discusses new film 'Cast Aside the Clouds'“

Cast Aside the Clouds

In Tehran, an unexpected encounter draws Layla, a young woman determined to pursue her education, and Sasan, a physician whose future seems settled, into a love neither saw coming. As their connection deepens, they begin to imagine a future together that changes everything.

A man and woman standing face to face smiling at each other, indoors with a blurred background.

As their connection deepens, they begin to imagine a life together. But the closer they grow, the harder it becomes to ignore the beliefs, expectations and prejudices that stand between the lives they have inherited and the future they long to share.

Two women walking through a dimly lit corridor, one wearing a black hijab and the other in gray with sunglasses, inside a building with a barred door on the right.

Cast Aside the Clouds is an intimate love story about faith, resilience and the courage to question inherited beliefs, opening the way to a future neither could have imagined alone.

Two men engaged in conversation in a room with green walls. One man, younger with dark hair and beard, wearing a leather jacket, sits on a red sofa gesturing with his hands. The other, older, bald, and wearing glasses and a white shirt, sits on a matching sofa holding a book. Behind them is a window with a yellow chair in front of it, a desk with a green desk lamp, and framed pictures on the wall.

To cast aside the clouds is to find the courage to see beyond what we have been taught.

To see. To question. To change.