“Leila’s Brothers” Press Conference at The 75th Annual Cannes Film Festival
Ali, out a year’s salary, returns to the family home (in fact, he has been away for most of the past eight years) where his long-suffering unmarried sister, 40-year-old Leila (Taraneh Alidoosti) implores him to help her take the steps to start a small business so as to build something solid for the future. She is the brightest member of the testosterone-heavy family — not that society has allowed her to profit from her smarts — and her salary in the administrative offices of a luxury mall is the immediate family’s major source of income.
