“Shukran” is an Italian-French film directed by Italian filmmaker Pietro Malegori, in which Hosseini plays the main role. It tells the story of a heart surgeon who has to urgently perform surgery on a child amid the Syrian civil war, before finding out that the child is the son of a terrorist responsible for the death of the surgeon’s brother. Shot both in Italy and France, the specific sites chosen provided necessary backdrop to authentically represent the war-torn regions of Syria. Hosseini speaks Arabic in this film as it features both English and Arabic as the main languages. “Shukran” is set for public release in summer 2024.