Dunlevy: Montreal filmmaker puts politics aside in debut feature Ava

Sadaf Foroughi felt at home, last Thursday afternoon, sitting in the café of our city’s art house movie mecca, the Cinémathèque québécoise, where her film Ava opens Friday.
“For me, Ava is an art house film,” said the Iranian Montrealer, who has lived here for nearly a decade.
It’s also a completely independent film, having received no production help from Canada’s major funding agencies. Shot in Iran with local actors, on a shoest