Iran

Alireza Rofougaran’s childhood dream of meeting Muhammad Ali had long been forgotten, till it sprung back to life following the death of Ali’s former rival, Joe Frazier. The reawakened dream brings back to memory a whole era in which Muhammad Ali had been embedded in Iranian culture as a legend, compared in mythical proportions with National Iranian heroes, a people’s champion; a Pahlevan! Alireza’s personal quest takes him on a journey across the globe to try and meet Muhammad Ali; a documented odyssey, with a delusional twist, depicting the concept of Para-Social interactions…