Another Birth. Iranian Cinema Here and Now 2023 / Malakh / Iran, Germany 2021
A film within a film, a comedy and a drama, a feature and a documentary combined. The second directorial effort from Kiarostami’s pupil Faeze Azizkhani is all of these and more besides. Two women – a director and a screenwriter – are putting together a film which is highly personal for both of them, albeit a process which arouses the animosity of their families and a society that favours men; the women’s creative endeavour is a scourge for everyone concerned. Every single word in the written screenplay is the subject of discussion, while the scene of the pre-shoot preparations becomes a battlefield of aggression blurring the boundary between reality and fiction. Yet it is this conflict that provides fertile ground for the director’s authentic female perspective.
Lorenzo Esposito
79 min / Color, DCP
Director Faeze Azizkhani
/ Screenplay Faeze Azizkhani
/ Dir. of Photography Alireza Barazandeh
/ Music Hesam-eddin Salehbeig
/ Sound Iraj Shahzadi
/ Editor Hamidreza Barzegar, Majid Barzegar
/ Art Director Soheil Danesh Eshraghi
/ Producer Manijeh Hekmat, Mahshid Ahangarani Farahani
/ Production Bamdad Film
/ Coproduction KapFilme
/ Cast Hanieh Tavassoli, Pegah Ahangarani Farahani, Ali Mosaffa, Pedram Sharifi, Ramin Sadighi, Amaneh Agharezakashi
/ Sales Irimage
Faeze Azizkhani (1982, Tehran, Iran). Filmography: For a Rainy Day (Rouz-e mabada, 2017), The Locust (Malakh, 2021).
Irimage
No. 30, Malek St., Shariati Ave, 1565843633, Tehran
Iran
E-mail: [email protected]
Faeze Azizkhani
Film Director
Ahmad Azizkhani
Actor
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