How A Young Iranian Bisexual Filmmaker’s Family Helped Her Get To Sundance

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BY JORDAN ZAKARIN

Desiree Akhavan’s family crowded around a small table at a hotel coffee shop in Park City, Utah, trading fond — if awkward — memories of her childhood and clumsy first attempts at filmmaking. There was less than an hour before the premiere of her feature film debut, Appropriate Behavior, at the Sundance Film Festival, and as they laughed, joked, and winced, you could almost forget that Desi, as they call her, was about to expose a side of herself that even such a tight-knit family had rarely seen before.

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