Another View 2018 / Hojoom / Iran 2017
Everyone is suspiciously pale. Humankind of the future is beset with epidemics. Part of the planet is shrouded in eternal darkness. The world is divided by impassable borders. This spectacular game played with the viewer brings together a dystopia, a sports-world crime drama, and a mysterious romance laced with vampirism – all in a single shot.
Everyone is suspiciously pale. Humankind of the future is beset with epidemics. Part of the planet is shrouded in eternal darkness. The world is divided by impassable borders. It’s not some second-rate dystopia but a spectacular game with the audience, with the narrative, with the genre. The picture connects the unconnectable as it unfolds a labyrinthine plotline in a single shot. For viewers drawn under its spell, the self-referential story is highly engaging for its knack of creating ever newer hypotheses. What was at first an innocently linear detective story playing out in a minimalist sci-fi setting expands in scope, and the reconstruction of a crime transforms into a tragic love story.
Vít Kořínek
102 min / Color, DCP
Director Shahram Mokri
/ Screenplay Nasim Ahmadpour, Shahram Mokri
/ Dir. of Photography Alireza Barazandeh
/ Music Milad Movahedi
/ Art Director Amir Esbati
/ Producer Sepehr Seifi
/ Production Iran Novin Film
/ Cast Abed Abest, Babak Karimi, Elaheh Bakhshi, Behzad Dorani, Levon Haftvan
/ Sales Iranian Independents
Shahram Mokri (b. 1977, Marand, Iran). Selected filmography: Ashkan, the Charmed Ring and Other Stories (Ashkan, angoshtar-e motebarek va dastan-haye digar, 2008), Fish & Cat (Mahi va gorbeh, 2013), Invasion (Hojoom, 2017)
Iranian Independents
P.O. Box 15875-4769, , Tehran
Iran
Phone: +98 912 319 8693
E-mail: [email protected]
Shahram Mokri
Film Director
Amir Esbati
Art Director
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