Forum of Independents - Competition 2006 / Zemestan / Iran 2006
A young man falls in love with a woman whose husband was forced to leave the country in search of work and has disappeared. A melancholic portrayal of a generation torn between the urge to leave the country, its ties to the homeland and its struggle to survive.
It is winter. A man is fired from his job. Having no more options, he decides to go and find work abroad, leaving behind his young wife and daughter. Months pass and his family hears no word from him. A stranger, a young mechanic, arrives in town in search of work. His eyes wander to the beautiful woman whom he hears no longer has a husband. A melancholic portrayal of a generation torn between the urge to leave the country, its ties to the homeland and its struggle to survive.
85 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Rafi Pitts
/ Screenplay Rafi Pitts
/ Dir. of Photography Mohammad Davoodi
/ Music Hossein Alizadeh & Mohammad Reza Shajarian
/ Editor Hassan Hassandoost
/ Producer Mohammad Mehdi Dadgoo
/ Production AMA Media
/ Cast Mitra Hadjar, Ali Nicsolat, Saeed Orkani, Ashem Abdi, Zahra Jafari, Naser Madahi, Safari Ghassemi
/ Contact AMA Media
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Rafi Pitts (b. 1967, Mashad, Iran) has an Iranian mother and British father. The family left Iran in 1978. Pitts studied film in London and, in 1991, he moved to France, where he made his first short, In Exile, that same year. He made his second short, Salandar, in 1994. His feature debut, The Fifth Season (1997), became an international festival hit. In 1999 he directed his second feature, Sanam (Karlovy Vary 1999) and in 2003 the documentary Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty. Zemestan (2006) is his third feature.
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