“Duchenne Boys” is the first feature documentary by Sohrab Kavir, a young British-Iranian filmmaker and the founder of “Duchenne Boys”, an online platform. Sohrab grew up in a family where Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a male-specific muscle-wasting disease, took the lives of his three brothers.

Riddled by guilt about his survival, Kavir felt compelled to try to improve the lives of Duchenne sufferers specially the ones in Persia.

On his journey of discovery Kavir meets Matin, a young British-Iranian with Duchenne disease, who plays power wheelchair-football in the English Powerchair League. Matin inspires Kavir to attempt the seemingly impossible – to create an Iranian football team from boys with Duchenne and organise an international match with Matin’s team from England. But this will be no ordinary Powerchair match. Two teams of wheelchair- bound players will face each other online – in the first ever international cyber football match. For Kavir it becomes a remarkable act of self redemption.

“Duchenne Boys” was edited by the award winning Hayedeh Safirai who previously edited the Oscar-winning “A Separation (2012)” and the Oscar-winning “The Salesman (2017)”.