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Azita Sahebjam is an Iranian-Canadian ballerina and the director of Vancouver Pars National Ballet, which she established in 1990. She also acted in the movie The Neighbor directed by Naghmeh Shirkhan. In 2012, Sahebjam was a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.
When two Iranian women on very different paths become across-the-hall neighbors in a northern Vancouver apartment building, their tentative friendship is one of convenience leavened by longing and regret. At the end of a plain hallway in a plain building in the northern section of Vancouver, middle-aged dancer Shirin (Azita Sahebjam) lives a life of solitude and melancholy.
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