Indie Focus: A distinctly varied team effort for 'Circumstance'

Assorted Iranian backgrounds help writer-director Maryam Keshavarz and a young team of actors arrive at a bold narrative of youth culture in post-revolution Iran. From the film's description on paper, a coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of cultural oppression in Iran, "Circumstance" could seem like an earnestly dour slice of good-for-you cinema, so the giddy, high-style group who