Sunday
Jun122022
Tribeca 2022: "Land of Dreams" Gives Sheila Vand The Star Turn She Has Been Deserving
Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 10:30AM by Jason Adams
A splendidly surreal spin on the immigrant experience, Land of Dreams stars the always-great Sheila Vand, best known as the burqa-rocking vampire in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night. In the new film she plays Simin, an Iranian-American artist turned census worker in the near-ish future.
She's been tasked with recording the dreams of the people the government’s keeping track of. Not dream as in “The American Dream,” not dream like, “One day I hope I will become a doctor.” But the actual literal dreams that these people dream as they sleep at night...