9th edition: 21 April – 26 April 2020
FILMS 2019: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T – Z | Feature Film | Short Film
FILMS 2018: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T – Z | Feature Film | Short Film
FILMS 2017: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T – Z | Feature Film | Short Film
FILMS 2016: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T – Z | Feature Film | Short Film
FILMS 2015: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T – Z | Feature Film | Short Film
Marisol Gómez Mouakad | Puerto Rico, Mexico | 2016 | color | DCP | 90 min | Spanish, English | e.s.
Three lonely people, each looking for love in their own ways. This is hard enough in any big city – never mind in Tehran, where individual freedoms can’t be taken for granted. In a sexy voice on the telephone, an overweight receptionist seduces men who wouldn’t look twice at her real ‘me’. In revenge, her sexy alter ego stands up every single one of the dates she makes. A former bodybuilding champion now earns a living as a personal trainer. When he gets a promising young sportsman as a client, he drops everything else, even a very promising acting job for a well-known French director. A singer at religious funerals is dumped by his fiancée. He tries to find new purpose in life by retraining as a singer at weddings and parties. That’s a lot more attractive to women, his friend assures him.
The protagonists’ search is subtly and gently sketched in this bittersweet tragicomedy supported by the Hubert Bals Fund. All three of them are looking for warmth and connection in a society that doesn’t embrace them back.
Place: The Cinemas 2
Date: 11 April 2019
Time: 21:30
Duration: 1:10
Place: The Cinemas 2
Date: 12 April 2019
Time: 13:15
Duration: 1:10
Year in
Festival
2019
Director
Ali Jaberansari
Camera
Mohammad Reza Jahanpanah
Cast
Forough Ghajabegli
Mehdi Saki
Amir Hessam Bakhtiari
Behnaz Jafari
Amir Reza Alizadeh
Aram Mahzari
Country
United Kingdom
The Netherlands
Iran
Editor
Ashkan Mehri
Language
Farsi
Length
102′
Music
Hamed Sabet
Producer
Babak Jalali
Production Company
Here & There Productions
Production Design
Payam Foroutan
Sales
Reel Suspects
Scenario
Ali Jaberansari
Maryam Najafi
Sound Design
Hossein Abolsedgh
Year of Production
2018