"Under the Skin of the City" (Zir-e Pust-e Shahr)<br />

Under the Skin of the City

Documentary, 74 min, Color, 4K, 2:1, 16:9, 5.1, stereo, Persian and Dari, 2024, Iran

Presskit

Synopsis

This is a film about the life of a woman. Tuba, who works in a weaving factory, is carrying the burden of her husband and four children on her shoulder and trying to make a better life for her children, what she couldn’t have so far. Her eldest son, Abbas, is so worried about the mother and is searching for a better work, hopeful for a better condition for the family. But he makes the family’s condition worse, and puts everyone in trouble…

"Under the Skin of the City" (Zir-e Pust-e Shahr)<br />

Cast & Crew

Director  Rakhshan Banietemad

Screenwriters  Rakhshan Banietemad & Farid Mostafavi

Director of Photography Hossein Jafarian

Production Design Omid Mohit

 

Editor Mostafa Khergheh- Poush

Sound Asghar Shahverdi

Producers Rakhshan Banietemad, Jahangir Kosari

Cast Golab Adineh,Mohammad-Reza Forutan, Baran Kosari

"Under the Skin of the City" (Zir-e Pust-e Shahr)<br />

Festivals

Mar del Plata International Film Festival<br />
Sundance Film Festival<br />
Montréal World Film Festival<br />
Moscow International Film Festival<br />
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival<br />

Photos

Under the Skin of the City - Baran Kosari
Rakhshan Banietemad, born in 1954 Tehran, began to make documentaries for the Iranian National Television in 1979, right after graduating from the University of Dramatic Arts, Tehran. From 1979 to 1987, she focused on making only documentaries. In 1987, she directed her first feature film “Off the Limits”.

Rakhshan Banietemad

DIRECTOR’S Statement

Rakhshan Banietemad, born in 1954 Tehran, began to make documentaries for the Iranian National Television in 1979, right after graduating from the University of Dramatic Arts, Tehran. From 1979 to 1987, she focused on making only documentaries. In 1987, she directed her first feature film “Off the Limits”. In 1991, she became the first woman recipient of the Best Director award for “Nargess” at Fajr International Film Festival in Iran. In 1995, she won the Bronze Leopard for The Blue Veiled at the Locarno Film Festival. “Under the Skin of the City”, her next film, was the highest grossing film in Iran in 2000. This film along with “Gilaneh” (2005) and “Mainline” (2006), garnered major awards in more than 50 film festivals. Also “Tales” won the Best Screenplay award in the main competition of Venice International Film Festival in 2014.

 While Banietemad’s feature films have been acclaimed and honored worldwide, her documentaries have also been successful and popular internationally. “Our Times…”, was the first documentary ever to be released in the movie theaters in Iran in 2002. It was also screened in highly prestigious and prominent festivals and TV channels such as IDFA, Sundance Film Festival and ARTE.

From 2013 to 2017, she mentored six documentaries, which were well received by the public and contributed to a positive perception of the genre.

In 2008, she received an honorary doctorate from University of London, in 2010, she was awarded the Prix Henri Langlois from Vincennes International Film Festival.

 She has joined the Academy Oscar, Writers branch in 2017.