Country: Iran
Year: 1999
Duration: 29'
The boy Davood is supposed to take part in a fieldtrip to a holy shrine that has been organized for the school's best students. But a mishap makes him arrive too late for the appointment with his schoolfriends. He returns to the village on foot, a trip which becomes a sort of pilgrimage full of encounters and discoveries.
Biography
film director
Mehdi Jafari
Mehdi Jafari (Ahvaz, Iran, 1969) has been working as a photographer and cameraman since 1985. After finishing his studies at the University of Tehran in 1993, he began directing documentaries and fictional short films.
FILMOGRAFIA
Clod (8mm, 1987), Friends (8mm, 1988), Hajakbar (8mm, 1989), Permission (8mm, 1989), With Grandmother (16mm, 1993), Ziarat (1999).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, fotografia e montaggio: Mehdi Jafari.
Soggetto e sceneggiatura: Mahin Abass Zadeh.
Cast and characters: Mohammad Aliyari (Davood).
Producer: Shirin Naderi.
Production company: Iranian Young Cinema Society, Ghandi Ave., 19 St., n. 20, P.O. Box 15175/163, Tehran, Iran, tel. +98-21-8773114, fax +98-21-8789592.
Foreign sales agent: Hilaj Co. Ltd., 19 Resalat Ave., 16317 Tehran, Iran, tel. +98-21-8849383, fax +98-21-865469, e-mail hilaj@navara.com.
Soggetto e sceneggiatura: Mahin Abass Zadeh.
Cast and characters: Mohammad Aliyari (Davood).
Producer: Shirin Naderi.
Production company: Iranian Young Cinema Society, Ghandi Ave., 19 St., n. 20, P.O. Box 15175/163, Tehran, Iran, tel. +98-21-8773114, fax +98-21-8789592.
Foreign sales agent: Hilaj Co. Ltd., 19 Resalat Ave., 16317 Tehran, Iran, tel. +98-21-8849383, fax +98-21-865469, e-mail hilaj@navara.com.
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