At the outset of “Any Day Now,” 13-year-old Ramin Mehdipour and his Iranian family are living in a refugee center in Finland. But just as Ramin starts to enjoy the school holidays, the family receives the terrible news that their asylum application has been denied. The Mehdipours file a final appeal and continue with their everyday lives, all the while trying to keep a positive public attitude despite the looming danger of deportation. As Ramin starts the new school year, every moment, every friendship becomes all the more precious. Screen Daily writes: “Hamy Ramezan draws upon his own family’s experience of fleeing the war in Iran for Finland in his debut fiction feature, ‘Any Day Now.’ As a result, the story about a family’s long wait for their asylum application to be processed carries a strong emotional resonance. Where many films about the refugee experience linger on the minutiae of applications and the grind of bureaucracy, Ramezan leaves those elements to brew in the background while focusing on 13-year-old Ramin Mehdipour (Aran-Sina Keshvari), his dad Bahman (Shahab Hosseini), mum Mahtab (Shabnam Ghorbani) and little sister Donya (Kimiya Eskandari), as they wait to hear their fate. This is the sort of family we’d all like to be a part of, with Asghar Farhadi regular Hosseini making the most of his eternal optimist dad.”