Wednsday, May 9

Color, 2K, 16:9, 102 min, 2015, Iran

SYNOPSIS

An unusual advertisement in one of Tehran’s morning papers gathers a large group of people in one place.They think that what’s been advertised is the only solution to their problem.The police take care of the situation by calming the people down and having them dispersed. However, two womenamong these people are not giving up…

Director & Scriptwriter Vahid Jalilvand

Screenplay Ali Zarnegar, Vahid Jalilvand, Hossein Mahkam

Director of Photography Morteza Poursamadi

MusicComposer Karen Homayounfar

Sound Yadollah Najafi

Sound Design & Mix Seyyed Alireza Alavian

Set &Costume Designer Babak KarimiTari

Make-up Artist Saeed Malekan

Editor Vahid Jalilvand, Sepehr Vakili

Still Photographer Satiyar Emami

Assistant Director Hassan Labbafi

Production Manager Mohammad Sadegh Azin

Producers Ali Jalilvand, Mohammad Hossein Latifi

Cast Niki Karimi, Amir Aghaei, Shahrokh Forootanian, Vahid Jalilvand, Borzou Arjmand, Afarin Obeisi, Saeed Dākh, Kataneh Afsharinejad, Sahar Ahmadpour, Milad Yazdani

Festivals

  • Venice Int’l Film Festival (2 – 12 Sept. 2015/Italy) Orizzonti–Winner of Fipresci Prize and Winner of the INTERFILM Award for Promoting Interreligious Dialogue
  • Zurich Int’l Film Festival (24 Sept.– 4 Oct. 2015/Switzerland)
  • Reykjavik Int’l Film Festival (24 Sept.– 4 Oct. 2015/Iceland)– Winner of the Golden Puffin
  • Vancouver Int’l Film Festival (24Sept.– 9 Oct. 2015/Canada)
  • Tbilisi Open Film Forum (5 Nov. 2015 / Georgia)
  • IFF Bratislava (12-17 Nov. 2015/Slovak Republic)Winner of the Best film and Best Actress
  • INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OF INDIA (20 – 30 Nov. 2015 / India)
  • Dubai Int’l F.F (6 – 19 Dec.2015/ UAE)
  • Chennai Int’l FF (10 – 17 Dec. 2015 / India)
  • Vesoul Int’l Asian Film Festival (3 – 10 Feb. 2016 / France)GRANDPRIX DU JURY INTERNATIONAL &PRIX DU JURY NETPAC (NETWORK FOR THE PROMOTION OF ASIAN CINEMA)
  • The Royal Film Commission (10 – 14 Feb. 2016 / Jordan)
  • Gene Siskel Film Center (13 – 14 Feb. 2016/ USA)
  • Goteborg Int’l FF (January 29 – February 8, 2016 / Sweden)
  • Prague Int’l Film Festival – Febiofest (17 – 25 March 2016 / Czech Republic) – Competition
  • Istanbul FF (7 – 17 April 2016 / Turkey)
  • UCLA Film & Television Archive (30 April – 22 May 2016 / USA) – Screening date 17 May

  • Sydney Int’l Film Festival (8 – 19 June 2016 / Australia)
  • Five Lakes Film Festival (27 July – 7 Aug. 2016 / Germany)
  • Silk Screen Asian American F.F. (16 – 25 Sept. 2016 / USA)
  • The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (20 Jan. 2017 / USA)

    DIRECTOR’S Statement