Synopsis

At eighty-two, Iris sits alone by a quiet lakeshore, speaking with an artificial intelligence that knows her memories more precisely than she does. It offers her something impossible: the chance to return to a single day from her past—a warm kitchen, a burnt piece of toast, the people she loved, and a life that no longer exists. But Iris refuses. As the AI tries to understand why someone would reject the possibility of reliving happiness, their conversation becomes an intimate confrontation with memory, grief, and the temptation to live inside what has already been lost. Gradually, it becomes clear that the peaceful lakeshore is not quite what it seems—and neither is Iris’s presence there. Faced with the choice between the certainty of a perfect memory and the uncertainty of whatever comes next, Iris must decide whether being connected to the past is still a form of living. Before the Blue Light is a human-centered science-fiction drama about memory, loss, artificial intelligence, and the quiet courage required to choose an unknown future over a perfect past.

Project members

• Director - WiterFarbod Namvar azad
• ProducerShima Ryan