Country: Iran
Year: 2012
Duration: 90'
Arash, of Iranian origin, is a professor of sociology and has been living in the West for twenty-five years. In 2008, his work takes him back to Shiraz, even though he had severed every tie with his family because of his terrible relationship with his father, a revolutionary guard who had made a fortune through corruption and the death of his other son. But when the father dies, Arash is brought back to the places of his past and thus relives not just the history of three generations of his family, but also that of Iran itself, from 1980 until the elections in 2009.
Biography
film director
Massoud Bakhshi
Massoud Bakhshi (Tehran, Iran) obtained a diploma in photography and film and received his degree in agricultural engineering. He then studied film in Italy, where he directed his first short, Cine Citta (1999), which was awarded best documentary at the Tehran Film Festival. In 2005, he specialized in cultural financing in France and worked as a film critic, screenwriter and producer, all the while continuing his activity as a director. His films have been screened at major international festivals: Tehran Has No More Pomegranates! won numerous awards in Iran, while Bagh Dad Bar Ber received Best Fiction Film at the Tempere International Film Festival in 2009. A Respectable Family was presented at the Quinzaine des réalisateurs last year in Cannes and at Karlovy Vary.
FILMOGRAFIA
Cine Citta (cm, doc., 1999), Shenasaeiye Yek Zan (Identification of a Woman, cm, doc., 1999), Vaghti Behrang Ayoumi ra Molaghat Mikonad (When Behrang Meets Ayoumi, cm, doc., 2001), Namaze Baran (Praying for the Rain, cm, 2003), Panjerehay-E-Gomshodeh (Lost Windows, mm, doc., 2004), Tehran Has No More Pomegranates! (mm, 2007), Bagh Dad Bar Ber (cm, 2008), Our Persian Rug (mm, 2010), Yek Khanévadéh-E Mohtaram (A Respectable Family, 2012).
Declaration
film director
“There are preconceptions and prejudices towards Iranian cinema in the eyes of western audiences, and it’s really a pity. Our thoughts are manipulated daily by the media, it is really unfortunate because it prevents us from having an authentic picture of the country and its culture. I think it is only through the arts and culture that you can get to know other countries and different cultures. As a matter of fact cinema too, which after all is also a media, can feed prejudices and misconceptions.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Massoud Bakhshi
fotografia/cinematography
Mehdi Jafari
montaggio/film editing Jacques Comets
scenografia/production design Mahmoud Bakhshi
musica/music Kayhan Kalhor
suono/sound Bahman Heidari, Thomas Robert, Jean-Guy Veran
interpreti/cast Babak Hamidian, Mehrdad Sedighian, Mehran Ahmadi, Ahoo Kheradmand, Parivash Nazarieh, Behnaz Jafari, Mehrdad Ziai, Yazdan Jamshidi, Matin Khatibi, Niki Nasirian, Davood Fathalibeigi, Sima Mobarakshahi, Parvin Meikadeh, Adnan Shahtalai
produttori/producers Mohammad Afarideh, Jacques Bidou, Marianne Dumoulin produzione/production JBA Production, Firoozei Films
vendita all’estero/world sales Pyramide International
montaggio/film editing Jacques Comets
scenografia/production design Mahmoud Bakhshi
musica/music Kayhan Kalhor
suono/sound Bahman Heidari, Thomas Robert, Jean-Guy Veran
interpreti/cast Babak Hamidian, Mehrdad Sedighian, Mehran Ahmadi, Ahoo Kheradmand, Parivash Nazarieh, Behnaz Jafari, Mehrdad Ziai, Yazdan Jamshidi, Matin Khatibi, Niki Nasirian, Davood Fathalibeigi, Sima Mobarakshahi, Parvin Meikadeh, Adnan Shahtalai
produttori/producers Mohammad Afarideh, Jacques Bidou, Marianne Dumoulin produzione/production JBA Production, Firoozei Films
vendita all’estero/world sales Pyramide International
