I don’t know what I’m going to do in the next five years. I don’t know what I’m going to do next year,” Deba Hekmat tells me. “I wouldn’t label myself as an actor, a personality, a model or anything like that. I’m just extremely grateful to be able to work in spaces that allow me to collaborate on things that are bigger than me.”
She’s certainly doing that. Her new film, Last Swim, won two awards at the Berlin International Film Festival, and is out on Friday. Hekmat, 23, plays Ziba, a school leaver who joins her friends for one last day of partying and carousing around London. As they ride the Tube or relax in the city’s parks, Ziba is hiding a dark secret from them.
