Director:
Alireza
Amini
Producer:
Saeid HajiMiri
Production Company:
Sobhan Film Company
Screenwriter:
Alireza. Amini, Mohsen Tanabandeh
Director of photography:
Mohammad reza Sokot
Editor:
Saeid HajiMiri
Music:
seyed
Behnam Abtahi
Make up: Babak Shoayi
Executive Manager:
Saeid Hashemi
Sound
Recorder:
Asghar Shahverdi
Costume &
Production Designer: Behzad Kazazi
Cast:
Jamshid
Hashempour………. Fathi Mohsen Tanabandeh….........Shekh Ali
Mohammad
Ahmad Mehranfar….......Rahmat
Sarvnaz Moustofi ……...… Ms. Rahimi
IRAN, 2008,
35mm, 90 min, Mono
Synopsis:
Suffering from an incurable disease, sixty-year-old Fathi comes
back to the village after 20 years. He hopes to find his wife
and ask for her forgiveness, because according to a Hadith (a
saying by Prophet Mohammad) if 40 believers witness somebody’s
honesty, God forgives his sins after his death and his wife is
destined to be the first witnesses.
Director’s
View:
The film
deals with forgiveness thematically: a global and humanistic
theme, a common concept in all religions and relieving
experiences for anyone. If there is more emphasis on spiritual
issues this time, it’s simple because I’m living in Iran and my
beliefs are rooted here. I can feel that some elements appear in
the film from my unconsciousness.
Biography:
Born in
1970 in Arak, Ali Reza Amini is a graduate of stage directing.
He has made more than 20 short and documentary films and he was
also an assistant director to Bahman Ghobadi's “A Time for the
Drunken Horses” too.
Due to
some problem with producer, his debut feature film, Letters of
The Wind, was shown after a year along with his second and third
films, Tiny Snowflakes & the Riverside. These three films have
brought him international recognition as well as a number of
prestigious awards from Locarno, Pusan, Thessaloniki, Milan,
Karlovy Vary and Brisbane festivals.
Feature
Films:
2002- Letters of The Wind; 2003- Tiny Snowflakes; 2004- The
Riverside; 2006- Time Froze; 2007- Close, Just Your Eyes.
Festivals:
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