We Will Resist

This is an eight-minute, $250,000 mini-epic about Iranians coming together as a country in the face of dire threats. It starts with a computer-generated scene of a plane taking off — Iran Air Flight 655, a civilian airliner that was shot down by an American naval vessel in 1988, killing all 290 people on board. The film then cuts to a sunny beach where a young man, a famous religious singer, plants the Iranian flag on a mosque. Another perfect day is dawning in the Islamic Republic: Young boys are playing soccer; ethnic minorities are preparing food and repairing fishing boats. Ultimately, the Iranians triumph by using their willpower to create a giant wave that sinks the entire American Fifth Fleet.