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All screenings will include a Q&A 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 & 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

Dallas, TX

November 19 - 6:00 pm

Austin, TX

November 21 at 2 pm & 7 pm

Houston, TX

November 23 at 7 pm

More Cities Coming Soon!

A FORBIDDEN LOVE… COURAGE, RESILIENCE AND THE HEART.

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

Arabic calligraphy

In Tehran, two lives meet at an unexpected turning point. Layla, a young woman determined to pursue her education, and Sasan, a Muslim physician whose future seems settled, find in one another a tenderness that begins to change how they see the world.

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

As their connection deepens, the distance between the lives they have inherited and the life they might share becomes impossible to ignore. 

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 not only to resist oppression—it is to witness.

To see. To question. To change.