Thanks to all the support so far, 'Duchenne Boys' within the first few months of its festival circuit has won eight awards. This epic documentary has been Sohrab Kavir's labour of love for the last 12 years and now he needs one more push to submit his film to more festivals and travel with 'Duchenne Boys' to raise awareness about this devastating disease that claimed the lives of three of bis brothers.

You can contact Sohrab Kavir on WhatsApp: 00447766356685 Email: sohrabkavir@gmail.com

Synopsis

"Duchenne Boys" is the first feature documentary by Sohrab Kavir, a British-Iranian filmmaker and the founder of "Duchenne Boys", the biggest online platform within the community in the world. Sohrab grew up in a family where Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a male-specific muscle-wasting disease, took the lives of his three brothers. Riddled by guilt about his survival, Kavir felt compelled to try to improve the lives of Duchenne sufferers especially the ones in Iran.

On his journey of discovery, Kavir meets Matin, a young British-Iranian with Duchenne disease, who plays power wheelchair-football in the English Powerchair League. Matin inspires Kavir to attempt the seemingly impossible - to create an Iranian football team from boys with Duchenne and organise an international match with Matin's team from England. But this will be no ordinary Powerchair match. Two teams of wheelchair-bound players will face each other online - in the first-ever international cyber football match. For Kavir it becomes a remarkable act of self-redemption.

"Duchenne Boys" was edited by the award-winning Hayedeh Safirai who previously edited the Oscar-winning "A Separation (2012)" and the Oscar-winning "The Salesman (2017)".

"Duchenne Boys" is a candid and highly personal film about Duchenne boys and Persia, whose story offers hope and inspiration to sufferers of a disease about which the director, Sohrab Kavir, knows only too much.

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