After moving away from his family in Isfahan, Iran, to study film in Germany, Faraz Fesharaki documented his digital exchanges with them over ten years. From his mother’s experience in prison to a father insisting on hearing his son’s dream from last night, the webcam witnesses everything.

News from home might touch on global politics or point to the gathering of persimmons—Faraz Fesharaki has enough bandwidth for both. Woven together from a decade of video calls, complete with soft pixellation and haphazard lagging, his directorial debut glows with modern forms of tenderness.