Country: Iran
Year: 1997
Duration: 95'
Mina waits in vain for her mother to take her home after school. She decides to go alone but does not manage to orient herself. She gets on a bus and listens to the other passengers' conversations. A scream interrupts the action. Mina abandons the set and heads towards home with her microphone still on. The director follows her without her knowing it.
Biography
film director
Jafar Panahi
Jafar Panahi (1960) was enthused by the films of Abbas Kiarostami ever since his childhood. He attended Teheran film school and then directed various short- and middle-length films for Iranian television. He worked as assistant director for Kiarostami. With his help, he made The White Balloon, which won the Caméra d'or award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1995.
FILMOGRAFIA
Yarali bashlaar (The Wounded Heads, cm, doc., 1988), Negah-e domov (The Second Sight, cm, doc., 1989), Kish (mm, doc., 1991), Akharin emtehan (The Last Chance, cm, 1992), Doust (The Friend, cm, 1995), Badkonak-e sefid (Il palloncino bianco, 1995), Ayneh (The Mirror, 1997), Ardekoulv (cm, doc., 1997).
Cast
& Credits
Director and screenplay: Jafar Panahi.
Director of photography: Farzad Jadat.
Sound: Yadollah Najafi.
Cast and characters: Mina Mohammad Khani, Kadem Mojdehi (se stessi).
Production company: Rooz Film Jafar Panahi Vahid Nikkhah A., Sarda Avenue 26, Tonekabon Street Pich-Schemiran, 11489 Teheran, Iran, tel. +98217532181, fax +98217521154.
Foreign sales agent: Celluloid Dreams, 24 rue Lamartine, 75009 Paris, France, tel +33149700370, fax +331 49700371.
Director of photography: Farzad Jadat.
Sound: Yadollah Najafi.
Cast and characters: Mina Mohammad Khani, Kadem Mojdehi (se stessi).
Production company: Rooz Film Jafar Panahi Vahid Nikkhah A., Sarda Avenue 26, Tonekabon Street Pich-Schemiran, 11489 Teheran, Iran, tel. +98217532181, fax +98217521154.
Foreign sales agent: Celluloid Dreams, 24 rue Lamartine, 75009 Paris, France, tel +33149700370, fax +331 49700371.