We Like You Miss Yaya (2018)
Miss Yaya Is Absolutely Not A Comedy

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Two brothers-in-law travel to China for business, but when the opportunity arises, they decide to take a detour to a Thailand resort.

"We Like You, Ms. Yaya" is Abdolreza Kahani's 11th film. For the second time in a career that has been marked by repeated troubles with censorship, the director has chosen to work outside of Iran, and shot his film in Thailand.

Starring Reza Attaran (in his fourth collaboration with Kahani), Hamid Farrokhnejad and Amin Hayayi, Ms. Yaya, which will be screened out of competition at CineIran Festival, tells the story of two brothers-in-law who travel to Thailand for work, but face a series of mishaps.



The story of two brother-in-law Naser and Moteza who after the death of their wives's father go to China for a business trip but when the opportunity happens they go instead to Thailand. But there they meet an old friend which ruins everything for them.

One might consider "Mrs. Yaya.." as a movie about midlife crisis. The midlife crisis of men who are committed and devoted to their family and its demands and who are living a healthy and happy life together with their wives and children. But now these family men in a different move, choose to travel to Shanghai and then to Thailand to experience some other way of life. They are looking for joy and they think that Pattaya could be the place where they could find that. But they cannot get the joy where they are looking for, they cannot show Ms. Yaya their real and honest feelings of being happy in her company and just go to the hotel she offers them.

In one sequence, the two brothers-in-law see a French man who is sitting and talking to a woman and seems to be happy. They do not consider the woman as his wife as they believe no man is so happy enjoying the company of his wife .

"What do you think? Is she his wife?"

"No, no man is so happy enjoying the company of his wife."

We may take "Ms. Yaya" as a symbol of something ; perhabs a symbol of a government in the sense that it gives the people lots of rose garden promises, all of which absurd and imaginary, and it never keeps them. But there is not much hints witnessing this hidden and implied meaning in "Ms. Yaya".



"Ms. Yaya" is Abdolreza Kahani's last feature. He directed and filmed "Adam" in 2006 in a village in his city of birth Neyshabur but the movie never received screening permission.

After Adam, he made "Over There", another one of his unreleased movies that was first screened together With "Twenty", a good and influential film with Parviz Parastooi and Mahtab Keramati in major roles.

After "Twenty", he made "Nothing", a very different movie that brought him success. After that, he made "Absolutely Tame As a Horse"; a good, well-constructed film, different and full of hidden Kahanian subtleties. Then came " By No Reason", which, despite nearly twenty minutes of censorship, was released and attracted the attention of the audience.

"We have time now" but not allowed to be released in 2013. Then "Absolute Rest" was played with the song "Alidousti" in 2014, after which he made "from every ordinary point" that there is not much information about it, but again his various pieces, "Sincerely, Nazanin, Spring and Tina" It was not allowed to show up until finally. "We love you, Mrs. Yaya", came to the end with the short name "Ms. Yaya".

As a result of the difficulties he faced over the release of his movie By No Reason, Kahani finally left Iran for France and, in 2014, directed the movie "We Have Time" there.

"We've got time" has already been screened at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Following the movie’s production, Kahani returned to Iran and filmed his latest movie "Absolute Rest", which features some of Iran’s most well-acclaimed actors.

As one might assume, Kahani’s other movies have also encountered many difficulties, the most important of which has not been obtaining screening permits. In the period of five years, five of Kahani’s screenplays were not received screening permission and he has thus written alternative screenplays instead.