
English: 
(Light-hearted Guitar Melody)
(Samira Off Camera Speaking
Persian)
(Laughs)
 SAMIRA (O.C): My grandfather is
 Mohammad Mohyeddin,
 and he's 109.
 My grandmother's name is,
 Ashraf Hasheminejad Mohyeddin,
 she just turned 100 years old.
 They've been married about
 80 years now.
SAMIRA: Who's even with anybody
for 80 years anymore?
8 kids, 20 grandchildren,
11 great-grandchildren.
They're both real characters,
you know.
When it was their
75th wedding anniversary,
I asked her, you know,
"How did you do this
for so long?"

Persian: 
(موسيقى ملايم گيتار)
سميرا پشت دوربين به زبان فارسی صحبت ميكند
(صداى خنده)
نام پدر بزرگ من
محمد محى الدين است
او صد و نه سال سن دارد.
مادر بزرگ من،
اشرف هاشمى نژاد محى الدين است.
و به تازگى صد ساله شد.
او به تازگى صد ساله شد.اونا نزديك به هشتاد ساله كه زن و شوهرند
ميرا: كى تو اين دوره زمانه،سميرا: كى تو اين دوره زمانه،
هشتاد سال با كسى ميمونه؟
هشت فرزند، بيست نوه،
و يازده نتيجه.
هر دو شخصيتهاى مهمى هستن
میدونیدر هفتاد و پنجمين سالگرد ازدواجشون،
از مادر بزرگم پرسيدمچطورى اين همه وقت از پسش بر اومدى؟

English: 
And she told me, you know,
"There were years when
I couldn't even look
at his ugly face."
(Coughs)
SAMIRA: They've been together
80 years!
They must know something.
 SAMIRA (O.C): My grandmother,
 I really have a lot of
 respect for her,
tenacity and resolve to
keep something together despite
 something inside you saying,
  Ugh, he's so annoying. 
 SAMIRA (O.C):
 Those are my grandparents.
 They have so much to teach.
(Playful Guitar Melody)

Persian: 
سالهايى بودن
كه تحمل ريختشو نداشتم.
(سرفه)
سميرا:اونها با هم بودن
هشتاد سال
حتما يه چيزى ميدونن!
سميرا: مادربزرگم
من براش خيلى ارزش قائل هستم
سرسختی و پشتکار برای حفظ کردن ازدواج،
علی رغم اینکه صدایی از درون که میگه
وای، چقدر روی اعصابمه
سميرا: اونا پدر و مادربزرگمن
اونا خيلى چيزا بلدن كه بتونن ياد بدن

English: 
 SAMIRA (O.C): He was a general
 in the army,
 my grandfather, and so,
 he would get us up at
(Claps Loudly)
 SAMIRA (O.C):
 And then we'd sit down at the
 exact same time
 and have breakfast,
and he would tell us,
 Chew your food.
Does your stomach have teeth? 
SAMIRA: He is very regimented.
He gets up at 7:30,
he has to have fruit at
11 o'clock, after breakfast
because for him,
digestion is very important.
 SAMIRA (O.C):
 She puts up with a lot,
 and she does it with a smile.

Persian: 
سميرا: پدربزرگ تيمسار بود،
در ارتش،
پدربزرگ
ساعت ٦:٣٠ صبح
بيدارمون ميكر
(دستهاشو محكم بهم ميزنه)
و ما همگى ميشستيم سر ميزسر ساعت
سر ساعتو صبحانه ميخورديم، و هميشه بهمون ميگفت،
غذا رو درست بجويد
مگه معدتون دندون داره؟
سميرا: پدربزرگ خيلى مقرراتيه
ساعت ٧:٣٠ بيدار ميشه
بايد بعد از صبحانه\
راس ساعت ١١ ميوه بخورهچون براش،
گوارش درست غذا خيلى مهمه
مادر بزرگ بايدخيلى (با پدربزرگ) كنار بياد
و اينكارو با لبخند انجام ميده

Persian: 
همه چيز حول پدربزرگ ميگرده
كل روز حول برنامه زمانى
و نيازهاى پدربزرگه
در دوران جوانى، از لحاظ گرايشهاى فکری
پدر بزرگ كسى بود كه\
من حتى نميتونستم بهش نگاه كنم
چون مخالف همجنسگراييه
بين زن و مرد تبعيض جنسى قائل ميشه، و نژادپرسته
...و اين فقط ...
ولى من يه زمانى به جايى رسيدم در اعتقادات خودمولى من يه زمانى به جايى رسيدم،
در اعتقادات خودم، b
چه انتظاراتى دارم
از اين شخص كسى كه در زمان و مكانى\
مثل ايران سال ١٢٨٤ شمسى بزرگ شده
من احساس میکنم به طورى ناخودآگاه
شبيه اون شدم
در خيلى زمينه ها،
با اينكه دوست دارم فكر كنم
كه تفكرات من پيشروتر از مال اونه
سميرا: من متوجه شدم كه
ميتونم يه كم كله شق باشم
و من اونو از پدربزرگ دارم

English: 
 SAMIRA (O.C):
 Everything revolves around him.
 and his needs.
 In my teens, my politics,
 he was somebody that
 I could not even look at,
 because he was homophobic,
he was a sexist, he was racist,
and this would just...
 SAMIRA (O.C):
 But I got to a place,
 in my own thinking,
 where I thought,
  What expectations do I have
 of this person
 who grew up in a time
 and place like Iran in 1906? 
 And I feel, unwittingly,
 that I have become him
 in a lot of ways,
 even though I like to think,
 my politics are very lofty.
MOHAMMAD. G:
What time?
SAMIRA: I find that,
I can be a bit of a hard-ass.
And I took that from him.
[Light-hearted Melody]
(Praying in Persian)

Persian: 
سميرا: پدربزرگ از لحاظ جسمى
در وضعيت بهتريه
نسبت به مادر بزرگ
من فكر ميكنم اون جوون تر مونده
چون تمام زحمات\به دوش مادربزرگم بوده
يك بارى داشت
با مادربزرگم شوخى ميكرد كه
اوه، نگاه كن
تو هنوز صد سالت هم نشده
اما نميتونى به خوبى من راه برى
ببين من چه تند راه ميرم
من تازه نزديك ده سال از تو پيرترم
و مادربزرگ ميدونى،
و گفت
ميدونى، من هشت تا فرزند دارم
هشت شكم زايمان كردم

English: 
 in much better shape
 than she is.
 I think he's kept young because
 she has taken
 most of the burden.
 And one time, he was
 making fun of her, saying,
  Oh, look at you,
 you're not even 100 yet,
 you can't walk like me,
 look at how fast I walk,
 and I'm almost 10 years older. 
 And she looked at him,
 you know,
 and said,
  You know, I had 8 kids,
 8 kids passed through me. 

Persian: 
سميرا: اونا جوون موندن
ون همواره در جوارشون\چون همواره در جوارشون
آدمهاى خيلى جوون هستن
مثلا بچه هاى كوچك فاميل
هميشه دور و برشون هستن
بچه هاى ده و يازده ساله
من هميشه به دوستام پز ميدم
 كه من يه پدرِپدربزرگ صد و ده ساله دارم“كه من يه پدرِپدربزرگ صد و ده ساله دارم.”
و اونها ميگن
“چى؟ ثابت كن.”
و من عكسشو بهشون نشون ميدم
و اونا...
سميرا: اونا هيچ وقت
با آدمهاى همسن و سال خودشون رفت و آمد ندارن، هرگز.
يه چيزى بايد بگم
در مورد زندگى در فضاى شخصى
و بودن در كنار آدمهايى كه دوست دارن
عشق جوون نگهت ميداره

English: 
SAMIRA: They stay young because
they're constantly around
very young people.
Like, my little cousins are
always twirling around them
and they're 10 and 11.
GREAT-GRANDSON:
I brag to my friends,
"I have a 110-year-old
great-grandfather."
and they're like,
"What? Oh yeah, prove it."
And then I show them
the picture,
and then they're like.
SAMIRA: They're not hanging
out with people their age, ever.
 There's something to be said
 about being in your own space
 and being around people
 who love you.
 Love keeps you young.
(Light Piano Melody)

English: 
 SAMIRA (O.C):
 Our entire family is deathly
 afraid of losing my
 grandparents.
 Losing them means,
 losing almost the nucleus of
 what keeps us together.
 SAMIRA (O.C):
 and she's getting very weak.
 both within three months
 of each other,
 so, you can't blame her for
 sort of wanting to give up.
You're not supposed to
bury your children.
 SAMIRA (O.C):
 He used to walk very upright
 but now, sort of,
 you're seeing him
 diminishing physically,
 which is...
 It's difficult to see because
 although he is 109,
 we always see him as,
 "The General."

Persian: 
همه فاميل
نگران از دست دادن
پدر و مادر بزرگ هستن
از دست دادنشون يعنى
از دست دادن كانون
همبستگى همه ما
مادربزرگ دو مرتبه زمين خورده،
و داره خيلى ضعيف ميشه
پدر و عموى من هر دو فوت كردن
با فاصله سه ماه از هم
در نتيجه نميشه بهش اشكال گرفت
كه چرا انگارى داره اميدشو از دست ميده
خاكسپارى بچه خودشو ببينه
پدربزرگ هميشه با پشت راست قدم ميزد
ولى الان يه جورايى
ميبينى
كه از لحاظ جسمى داره تحليل ميره
ديدنش خيلى سخته
چون با اينكه صد و نه ساله شده،
براى ما هميشه
“تيمساره“

Persian: 
سميرا:اونا دوست دارن برگردن
به ايران،
هميشه اميدشو دارن كه
يه روزى ميشه برگشت ايران
كه همه چيز درست خواهد شد
شرايط به حال عادى برميگرده
دوبار
كه يه روزى همه ما همديگه رو خواهيم ديد
میدونیدر وطنمون.
سميرا:با اينكه تو افكارت
ميدونى كه،
اونا رفتنى هستن يه جوراي ميخواى
انگار يعنى تو هم
ممکنه تا ابد زنده بمونى

English: 
SAMIRA: They do want to go
back to Iran.
There's always the hope that
you're going to go back,
that everything is going to
pan out,
that everything's going to be
okay once again
and that we can all meet again,
you know,
where we came from.
 SAMIRA (O.C): All you know in
 your mind that,
 they will be going,
 you almost want them to
 live forever because
 it also means that you might
 live forever.

Persian: 
نميدونم كه چى خواهد شد،
وقتى كه نباشن
كه چى بهشون انگيزه ميده كه ادامه بدن
و اون محبته.كه چى بهشون انگيزه ميده كه ادامه بدن
و اون محبته.
عشق اونا رو زنده نگه داشته
من احساس ميكنم مادامى كه
ما به اونا عشق ميديم
شايد هميشه زنده بمونن
سميرا: آواز تولد مبارك
به فارسى، ميگه
تولدت مبارك. شمعها رو فوت كن
كه صد سال زنده باشى
وقتى هر دوى اونا صد ساله شدن
ما با خودمون فكر كرديمما با خودمون فكر كرديم،
میدونی شايد ما بايد
شعر تولد رو عوض كنيم.
منظورم اينه كه پدر بزرگ به زودى داره صد و ده ساله ميشه.
(صداى شادى و تشويق)
من به اين موضوع آگاه شدم،
كه چقدر خوش شانسم.
چون آدمهايى هستن
كه باهاشون آشنا ميشم
و پدر و مادربزرگشون رو نديدن

English: 
 I don't know what will
 become of us,
 once they're gone.
 We talk about what is keeping
 them going,
and it really is love,
love is what is keeping
them alive.
So, I feel that as long as
we're giving them that,
maybe they will live forever.
(Playful Guitar Melody)
 in Persian says,
 we hope you live to be 100."
 When they both turned 100,
 we thought to ourselves,
 you know, we're going to have
 to maybe change
 the lyrics of this song.
 I mean, he's turning 110!
(Applause and Cheers)
 I've become quite aware of
 how lucky I am.
 The amount of people that
 I meet that don't even
 know their grandparents
 and mine are still around
 way past 100.

Persian: 
و مال من هنوز زنده هستن و از صد رد شدن
من خيلى دوست داشتم
زندگيشون رو ثبت كنم
و قصه زندگيشون رو تعريف كنم
كه خودشون كى بودن،و چه چيزايى ازشون به من
به همه ما
(تشويق)

English: 
 I really wanted to
 document their lives
 and tell their story,
 for who they are
 and what they've given to me
 and to all of us.
(Applause)
(Playful Music)
