Iron Island (2005)

Squatters live on a mothballed oil tanker in the Persian Gulf. The children attend a school on board; men harvest scrap metal and old oil in the hull; women keep house and raise children and Captain Nemat runs it all with an iron hand. We follow a lad who rescues fish trapped in the hull, an old man who stares at the sun, the idealistic teacher, and Ahmad, the Captain's assistant who has fallen in love with a young woman whose father wants to marry her to someone of means. What future has this sinking city?

Released Oct. 5, 2005 86 min None+

Genres: Drama

Keywords: tmdb.persia, imdb.oil-tanker, mdblist.three-actors, imdb.squatters-camp, imdb.water-torture, imdb.sunni-muslim, imdb.chalk + 10 more, tmdb.oil-tanker, imdb.ship, imdb.persian, imdb.sea, imdb.iran, imdb.forbidden-love, imdb.donkey, imdb.classroom, mdblist.fresh, mdblist.has-trailer