Country: Iran
Year: 2024
Duration: 86'
A famous film star Farzaneh, after spending time with her ill daughter at home, returns to the cinema to play a mother in search of a lost daughter. The film crew embarks on a day’s journey in a bus, to reach the location where Farzaneh is to confront her lost daughter. On the bus, Farzaneh learns about the disappearance of her own daughter. Her husband pressures her to return home, but she is determined to continue work. Farzaneh’s take on the role, of a tormented poor woman, differs from that of the director. This, along with her own personal family problems lead to increasing conflict with the director which threatens the movie…
Biography
film director
Paymon Shahbod
(Iran) studied film at De Anza College in the late 1990s while working in the tech field in Silicon Valley. Throughout the years he worked on various shorts and documentaries honing his craft and exploring different facets of cinema. In 2020 he fully returned to filmmaking by writing his first feature film, The Last Act, then released in 2024. Paymon is also an essayist. His last article, Montage, Realism and Cinema, was published in September 2024.
FILMOGRAFIA
Dreaming of Norway (cm, 2001), Don’t Feel Like It (cm, 2008), Laugh (cm, 2013), The Last Act (2024).
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: Paymon Shahbod. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Younes Sabzi. EDITING: Masoud Emami. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Bahram Norouzi. COSTUMES: Bahram Norouzi. MUSIC: Maziar Younesi. SOUND: Arash Ghasemi. CAST: Marjan Ghamari, Atabak Naderi, Maryam Ghasemi, Masiha Yousefi, Bahram Norouzi, Jalal Etesami, Neda Jalali, Adel Khandan, Kimia Hajebrahimi, Solmaz Naderi. PRODUCTION: Mohammad Ahmadi, Parisa Ramezani.
CONTACT: Vasna Films vasnafilms@gmail.com
