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L'Iran envoie le film Le gardien de nuit aux Oscars

Par Constance Jamet et AFP agence Publié le 20/09/2023 à 15:11

Le cinéaste Reza Mirkarimi exploite ses thèmes de prédilection liés à la religion et aux traditions.

C’était, avec neuf nominations et le prix du meilleur réalisateur, le film phare du Fajr Film Festival qui célèbre chaque année le septième art persan à Téhéran. Le drame Le gardien de nuit du réalisateur Reza Mirkarimi a été sélectionné pour représenter l'Iran aux Oscars, dont la 96e édition se déroulera, le 10 mars 2024.

Après avoir examiné 42 œuvres éligibles, présélectionné 15 d’entre elles pour resserrer le choix à trois longs-métrages, le comité de sélection de la fondation Farabi «a choisi le film Negahban-é Shab (Le Gardien de nuit) comme représentant du cinéma iranien», a annoncé cet organisme qui dépend du ministère de la Culture de la République islamique.

Sorti en 2022, ce long métrage raconte l'histoire de Rassoul, un ouvrier villageois qui doit choisir entre ses valeurs morales et l'argent lorsqu'il vient travailler à Téhéran.

Marcher dans les pas d’Asghar Farhadi

Reza Mirkarimi, 56 ans, exploite dans ses films des thèmes liés à la religion et aux traditions avec une approche humaniste. On lui doit Sous le clair de lune, salué par le Grand Prix de la Semaine de la critique au festival de Cannes en 2001, et de Si proche, si loin, prix du meilleur film au festival Fajr de Téhéran en 2005. C’est la troisième fois que Reza Mirkarimi est choisi par les autorités de son pays pour représenter l’Iran à la grand-messe hollywoodienne.

Pour avoir une chance de d��crocher la statuette en mars prochain, il faut désormais que Le Gardien de nuit parvienne à se faire une place sur la liste des 15 films présélectionnés début janvier par le comité des Oscars en charge du prix du meilleur film international. Seulement cinq de ces longs-métrages seront nommés le 23 janvier prochain. Chaque année, c’est près d’une centaine de films étrangers qui sont envoyés à l’Académie américaine du cinéma.

Le cinéma persan a été au palmarès des Oscars à deux reprises. Le célèbre réalisateur iranien Asghar Farhadi a remporté l'Oscar du meilleur film étranger: en 2011 pour Une séparation puis en 2017 pour Le Client, une coproduction française.

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Iran charges two actresses for not wearing headscarves

Earlier this month police said they would begin using "smart" technology in public places to crack down on women defying Iran's compulsory dress code.

TEHRAN: Iran has charged two prominent actresses for publishing pictures of themselves flouting the country's dress code for women, just weeks after announcing a crackdown on breaches, local media reported.

Police in Tehran have referred the case against Katayoun Riahi and Pantea Bahram to Iran's judiciary, accusing them of "the crime of removing the hijab in public and posting photos on the internet", the Tasnim news agency said late Monday.

If prosecuted, the pair could face fines or prison terms.

Earlier this month police said they would begin using "smart" technology in public places to crack down on women defying Iran's compulsory dress code.

Last week, photos of Bahram, 53, went viral after she posed without a headscarf at a film screening, while Riahi, 61, posted several photos taken in public places around Tehran in which she did not wear a headscarf.

The requirement for women to wear the headscarf in public was imposed shortly after the Islamic revolution of 1979.

The number of women in Iran defying the dress code has increased since a wave of protests following the September 16 death in custody of Kurdish-Iranian Mahsa Amini, 22, for allegedly breaching it.

On April 16, authorities said they had closed 150 commercial establishments whose employees were not complying with the dress code.

Bahram and Riahi have won several awards at Iran's leading cinema event, the Fajr International Film Festival.

In November, Riahi was released on bail after more than a week's detention for posting photos to Instagram in solidarity with the Amini protests, showing herself without a headscarf.

She was the first Iranian actress to post such images on social media in support of the protest movement.

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(via Oscar 2025 Miglior film internazionale: l'Iran seleziona In the Arms of the Tree)

Dopo aver conquistato l’Oscar 2 volte (nel 2012 con il film Una separazion, e nel 2017 con Il cliente, entrambi firmati dal maestro Asghar Farhadi), l’Iran ci riprova con il dramma “approvato dal governo” In the Arms of the Tree (در آغوش درخت,) diretto da Babak Khajehpasha.La pellicola ha conquistato 2 premi al Fajr Film Festival tra cui miglior opera prima e miglior sceneggiatura.

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“Romashka, the Pilot”is a new animated movie

The Iranian 80-minute adventure, comedy animated film “Romashka, the Pilot” co-directed by Hossein Saffarzadegan, Meisam Hosseini, and Hossein Panahi Dorcheh has been screened in Kazakhstan.

Synopsis:The main character's dream of flying and the collective efforts of friends to achieve it. A young sheep dreams of flying, but she lives in a world where only birds can fly airplanes and soar the skies. With the world and her father against her, she and her friends follow in the footsteps of her favorite heroic character, Super Owl, fighting against all odds to join a flight school and enter the race that will change their lives forever.

This marks the first public screening of an Iranian animated film in Kazakhstan and can be a beginning in bilateral cooperation in the cinema industry of the two countries, IRNA reported.

“Romashka, the Pilot” premiered at IMAX Esentai Mall in Almaty last week, with Iran’s Consul General Mohsen Faghani and Cultural Attaché Hossein Aghazadeh in attendance, and received high praise from Kazakh audiences for its quality.

Faghani expressed his delight at the screening of the first Iranian animation in Kazakhstan and said, “These activities not only introduce Iranian culture and art but also strengthen the relations between the two countries.”

For his part, Aghazadeh said: “We seek to strengthen the historical ties and enduring friendship between the societies of Iran and Kazakhstan, and foster the growth of cultural economy between the two countries by building on these cultural relations.”

The animation has been shown in Kazakh cinemas since August 29 and will remain on screen until September 12, marking a significant step in Iranian-Kazakh cinematic collaboration.

A production of 2023, “Romashka, the Pilot” is an 80-minute adventure comedy animation for kids. Also known as “Woolina and the No Birds,” it premiered in Iran at the 42nd Fajr International Film Festival in February.

Source: https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/503362/Iranian-animation-on-screen-in-Kazakhstan

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The Iranian 🇮🇷 French🇫🇷 Actress 👩🏾 Of International Acting & Exquisite Beauty🤎

Born On July 10th,  1983

Farahani was born in Tehran, Iran. She is the daughter of Behzad Farahani, a theatre director and actor, and Fahimeh Rahim Nia. Her sister is actress Shaghayegh Farahani. Golshifteh began studying music and piano at the age of five, and later entered a music school in Tehran. At 14, she was cast as the lead in Dariush Mehrjui's The Pear Tree, a role for which she won the Crystal Roc for Best Actress from the International Section of the 16th Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran.

She is known professionally as Golshifteh Farahani (گلشیفته فراهانی), is an Iranian and French actress. She is known for her performances in M for Mother (2006), Body of Lies (2008), About Elly (2009), The Patience Stone (2012), Paterson (2016), Girls of the Sun (2018), Extraction (2020) and its sequel Extraction 2 (2023), and Invasion (2021–present). She was nominated for the Most Promising Actress Award for The Patience Stone at the 2014 César Awards.

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Cover Design for Film Magazine, 1987 Fajr Film Festival Special Issue

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Estilo: Realismo Contemporáneo

Género: interior

Media: gouache, acuarela, paper

Dimensiones: 37 x 25 cm

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Fatemeh Motamed Aria

https://www.unadonnalgiorno.it/fatemeh-motamed-aria/

Fatemeh Motamed Aria è tra le più celebri attrici del cinema iraniano post-rivoluzionario.

Ospite in festival internazionali, ha recitato in più di quaranta lungometraggi e per tanti anni, in patria, i film che ha interpretato sono stati censurati.

Ha ricevuto nove nomination come migliore attrice al Fajr International Film Festival e vinto per quattro volte il primo premio del festival Crystal Simorgh.

Nel 2011, ha vinto il premio come migliore attrice al Montreal World Film Festival per il suo ruolo in Here Without Me e nel 2012 ha ricevuto il prestigioso Prix Henri Langlois in Francia.

Nata a Teheran il 29 ottobre 1961, la sua prima volta sul palcoscenico è stata a quattordici anni, nel 1979 è stata costretta a smettere perché il regime instaurato con la rivoluzione islamica, ha proibito ogni forma di rappresentazione teatrale.

Diplomata alla Facoltà delle Arti di Teheran, ha debuttato sul grande scherma nel 1976, col film Hassan Dadshok’r Bookworm, con cui ha vinto diversi premi.

Protagonista della rinascita del cinema iraniano degli anni novanta, ha recitato in film che evidenziano il ribaltamento radicale che le leggi morali islamiche hanno applicato nei confronti delle donne.

Ha lavorato con i più importanti registi iraniani come Mohsen Makhmalbaf e Abbas Kiarostami.

Nel 2022, dopo l’uccisione di Mahsa Amini, la giovane donna la cui unica colpa era stata aver mostrato una ciocca di capelli fuori dal hijab, seguita da quella di Sarina Esmaeilzadeh, ammazzata a soli 16 anni durante le proteste, un video che la vede protagonista, ha fatto il giro del mondo.

«In un Paese che, nelle proprie piazze, uccide ragazzi, ragazzine e giovani che chiedono solo libertà, non voglio essere considerata una donna. Io sono la madre di Mahsa! Io sono la madre di Sarina».

Nel discorso al funerale dell’attore Amin Tarokh, in cui si è rifiutata di indossare l’hijab, ha dichiarato: «Io sono la madre di tutti i giovani uccisi in questo Paese! Io sono la madre dell’Iran intero, non una donna nella terra degli assassini».

Il video è stata la risposta al suo coinvolgimento in un manifesto apparso sui palazzi di piazza Valiasr a Teheran, nel quale vengono mostrate le donne iraniane motivo di gloria. L’attrice, per protesta, ha chiesto che la sua immagine venisse rimossa.

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Iran Submits 'The Night Guardian' For 2024 Oscars

By AFP - Agence France Presse September 20, 2023

Iran has submitted director Reza Mirkarimi's movie "The Night Guardian" for the 2024 Oscars in the Best International Film category.

The movie, released last year, is about the tough life of Rasoul, a rural worker trying to make a living in the capital Tehran.

"The selection committee has chosen the movie Negahban-e Shab, or The Night Guardian, directed by Reza Mirkarimi to represent the Iranian cinema at the 2024 Oscars," the Farabi Cinema Foundation said late Tuesday.

Mirkarimi, 56, won the best film prize at the 2005 Fajr film festival in Tehran for "So Close, So Far", and his movie "Today" was nominated at the 2015 Academy Awards.

The Farabi Cinema Foundation has almost exclusively selected Iran's Oscar picks since 1994.

Iran has long had a thriving cinema scene, with figures including Jafar Panahi and Asghar Farhadi scooping awards around the world.

Farhadi has twice won the Oscar for best foreign film, for "A Separation" in 2012 and "The Salesman" in 2017.

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"Hussein Who Said NO" movie pic

The official website of the movie ‘Hussein who said “no”’

• A cinematic narration of the Muslim holy day of “Ashura” (a Shia festival observed on the tenth day of Muharram in the Islamic calendar to commemorate the death of the martyr Imam Hussein at the Battle of Karbala in 61 AH (680 AD))

• Winner of 9 “Crystal Simorgh” Awards and the “Golden Flag” of the 32nd Iran’s Annual Fajr International Film Festival and the “Special Award” of Baghdad Festival

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As Oscars pile up, Iranian film grows up

As the veteran American director took the stage at Iran’s Fajr International Film Festival, the audience stood up, clapping and cheering. Young men wearing round sunglasses and women with purple dyed hair peeking out from under their compulsory headscarves watched as scenes from “Platoon,” “Midnight Express,” “JFK” and “Any Given Sunday” appeared on the screen. The clip ended with the introduction of the guest of honor: ‘‘American writer and director, Oliver Stone.’’

“You make it seem as if I’m dead already,” Mr. Stone, 71, joked. Typically, Iranian hard-liners try to prevent prominent Americans, even harsh critics of United States policies like Mr. Stone, from obtaining visas. But in his case other forces had prevailed. Iranian politics are divided by those opposing any approach to America and those who feel there should be an outreach. Now, the American was the guest of honor at an event that, like Iranian society, has undergone major changes in recent years.

Established to celebrate the anniversary of the Islamic revolution, the festival has grown more independent, riding a wave of international prizes for Iranian films, including two recent Oscars. More than 350 foreign guests, selected from hundreds of applicants, traveled to the Iranian capital to see 35 films have premieres at the festival, held in a modern shopping center in downtown Tehran. There were Russians, Indians, Georgians, Europeans, Iraqis, Syrians and others. Concerts of film music were held at some locations. Some people visited Tehran’s Cinema Museum or an exhibition of French art by the Louvre, while others made a pilgrimage to the city’s sprawling cemetery, where they paid respects to the martyrs of the Iran-Iraq war.

“We want to show people that we are not North Korea,” said Reza Kianian, a prominent Iranian actor who is a festival ambassador. “When our guests walk on the streets they see a church, a mosque and a synagogue all in the same block,” he said. “This is not the country you think it is.”

Iran’s award-winning cinema is another example, Mr. Kianian said. Two of the director Asghar Farhadi’s films have won Academy Awards for best foreign language film — “A Separation” in 2012 and “The Salesman” in 2017. “With the festival and inviting so many foreign guests we also want to show that while we have hard-liners, most of our artists are not like this,” he added. Iranians often suffer from the image presented by “death-to-America” shouting hard-liners, an extremist view not shared by the majority of Iranians. [...]

Censorship was also a topic during a class in directing with Mr. Stone. “If you face red lines and censorship, find another way,” Mr. Stone told his audience on Monday, all members of the festival’s Talent Campus, a group of 60 young international filmmakers. They had been flown in to participate in a week of workshops and classes by Iranian and foreign filmmakers. “Hollywood is finished,” Mr. Stone said. “The future is for international cinema.” He added, “Nowadays, everything is shot with cellphones, and this is radically changing the industry worldwide.”

For many years, foreign guests were shunned. When the revolutionary ideology was at its stifling height, even the smallest criticism could offend one or another of Iran’s leaders. With Mr. Stone, even the most conservative cleric would have been hard-pressed to find something objectionable. He called President Trump “Beelzebub,” and the United States “an international outlaw.” He dismissed Emmanuel Macron, the French president, as “a young man without much sense of history.”

But, he also cursed a lot, not something that would endear him to the clerics; he did so at least 17 times during the hourlong class, by my count. In Iran, where language in official meetings is poetic, flowery and indirect, the Iranian members of the Talent Campus, even the hipster ones, could not stop giggling when Mr. Stone used an expletive.

How can all his movies be so critical of the United States, Nour Bahri, a 26-year-old filmmaker from Syria, wondered. “Are you perhaps secretly a part of their system?” she asked.

“You think I am an agent for the Central Intelligence Agency,” Mr. Stone replied. “I could never be that, but the top of Hollywood and the C.I.A. are definitely in bed with each other.”

-Thomas Erdbrink, "As Oscars Pile Up, Iranian Film Grows Up," The New York Times, Apr 30 2018 [x]

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"Smart Kid" movie is a Success.

The wholesome Iranian 3D animation “Smart Kid,” which has been titled the best-selling animation and children’s film in Iran.

Synopsis:

"Mohsen, a little boy who loves superheroes. He always tries to help anybody he comes across. Once he encounters an expired Iranian species and he decides to help the animal to get back to his homeland. However, a trip to the heart of the jungle, fighting the hunters and facing expired creatures is the start of a complicated adventure for Mohsen".

Honar Pooya Animation Studio and the Center for Intellectual Development of Children and Adolescent, which have jointly produced the animated film, have announced that one percent of the proceeds from the sale of the movie will be donated to the underprivileged children in the two regions, Honaronline reported.

The producers said in a statement that “they wish happiness and fulfillment of childhood dreams for all oppressed and innocent children around the world. Hoping that one day the whole world will be full of joy and peace, we have agreed on this decision”.

Produced by Hamed Jafari, the animation has sold close to $1 million since the beginning of its release across the country and brought about 1.1 million viewers to cinemas.

Directed by Behnoud Nekouiee, Mohammad Javad Jannati and Hadi Mohammadian, “Smart Kid” had its national premier at the 41st Fajr Film Festival in Tehran in February, where it won the Best Animation award.  

Hooman Hajabdollahi, Mina Qiaspour, Mir Tahari Mazloumi, Hedayat Hashemi, Javad Pezeshkian, Touraj Nasr, Mahsa Erfani, and Nazanin Yari are among the voice actors.

Over 5,300 children have been killed in the Gaza Strip since October 7 amid widespread airstrikes by the Israeli military. Based on the figures, children account for 40 percent of the deaths in Gaza. 

The Gaza Strip is the “most dangerous place in the world to be a child,” UNICEF Executive Director said on Wednesday.

“In addition to bombs, rockets, and gunfire, Gaza's children are at extreme risk from catastrophic living conditions. One million children – or really all children inside the territory – are now food insecure; facing what could soon become a catastrophic nutrition crisis,” Catherine Russell said at the UN Security Council briefing on the protection of children in Gaza on November 22.

“Children who manage to survive the war are likely to see their lives irrevocably altered through repeated exposure to traumatic events. The violence and upheaval around them can induce toxic stress that interferes with their physical and cognitive development. Even before this latest escalation, more than 540,000 children in Gaza – half of its entire child population – were identified as needing mental health and psychosocial support,” she noted.

“The public health risks in Gaza are compounded by the virtual shutdown of the health care system. More than two-thirds of hospitals are no longer functioning because of the lack of fuel and water, or because they sustained catastrophic damage in attacks,” the official stressed.

“We are also seeing devastating attacks on schools, with close to 90% of all school buildings sustaining damage. Nearly 80% of the remaining school facilities are being used as shelters for internally displaced people. But even these spaces, where children and families have sought safety after fleeing their homes, have come under attack,” she underlined.

“The destruction of Gaza and killing of civilians will not bring peace or safety to the region. The people of this region deserve peace. Only a negotiated political solution – one that prioritizes the rights and wellbeing of this and future generations of Israeli and Palestinian children – can ensure that. I urge the parties to heed this call, starting with a humanitarian ceasefire as the first step on the path to lasting peace. And I urge you, as Members of the Security Council, to do everything in your power to end this catastrophe for children,” Russell concluded.

Source:https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/491751/Highest-grossing-Iranian-animated-film-dedicates-part-of-sales

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Each Other from Sarah Tabibzadeh on Vimeo.

In a world in which people carry their precious things everywhere and sometimes give them to a washing store, A young boy lost one of his precious things, but He cannot live without it anymore.

Director & Producer: Sarah Tabibzadeh. Writer: Nader Rezaeeyan. Executive Producers: Dr.Neda heidari , Dr.Mohammadreza Khoddami. Editor: Bahram Emrani Composer: Peyman Yazdanian. Sound Designer: Ensieh Maleki.

World Sales & Distribution: The GlobeCSF.

Awards: SPECIAL PRIZE FOR ANIMATION TECHNOLOGY- 11th Tehran International Animation Festival - 2019 - Iran SPECIAL INTERNATIONAL JURY AWARD - 36th Tehran International Short Film Festival - 2019 - Iran BEST SHORT FILM PRIZE - 11th FEMCINE International Film Festival - 2021 - Chile

Official Selection: 37th Fajr International Film Festival - 2019 - Iran 10th ANIMAGE International Animation Festival – 2019 – Brazil 25th Canberra Short Film Festival – 2020 – Australia 17th IN THE PALACE International Short Film Festival – 2020 - Bulgaria – Oscar Qualifying 20th Nevada City Film Festival – 2020 – US 12th Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival – 2020 – US 20th Kerry International Film Festival – 2020 – UK – BAFTA Qualifying 12th SPARK Animation Festival – 2020 – UK – Oscar Qualifying 21st Stockholm International Film Festival Junior – 2021 – Sweden

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Shadravan Movie Review

Shadravan is the second movie directed by Hosein Namazi first presented in the 40th fajr festival and now available on Televika. Shot in the suburban parts of Tehran, Shadravan is about a slum-dwelling family. Living hand to mouth by merely selling herbs, Nader, the oldest child of the family, has to pay all the expenses of his now deceased father’s hospital treatment and burial. This comedy mainly centers on this family’s effort to pay the bills for their father’s funeral. Shadravan is written and directed by Hosein Namazi and produced by Abas Naderan.

The cast:

Reza Rooygari, Bahram Ebrahimi, Roya Teymoorian,Iman Baratpoor, Sina Mehrad, Gelare Abasi, Nazanin Bayati, Behrang Alavi, Hafez Nabizadeh, Behnaz Naderi, Azam Kaboodian, Farnaz Salehtash, Elahe Afshari,Mohsen Mehri, Sajad Rezaei, Babak Jafarie, Maryam Afshar and Mohamad Moosa Akbari

  What movie critics said

 Reza Daemi

   A poor and irresponsible dad is much of a trouble even once dead. Meanwhile, all the people related to the dead man, one way or another, try to help the family organize a reputable memorial service which most probably reminds us of Mehmane maman in which neighbours and relatives united to throw a party. Shadravan is a black comedy illustrating how Orwellian life is for poverty-stricken people.

   The movie is appealing and has potentials. It stands away from misplaced levity and fecklessness. It’s a good example of observational comedy. There is a curious paradox between the bitter events of the story and a twinge of comedy in them.

  Three features of Shadravan

Success in making a minimalist comedy

Extraordinary  acting especially by Sina Mehrad and Nazanin Bayati

Low  comedy avoidance

Seyed Arya Ghoreyshi

Appealing and involving, Shadravan has high potentials. The acting and the paradox between tone and content is exciting and unpredictable. Some of the actors, namely Behrang Alavi play quite professionally. Having said that, the film doesn’t have much to offer past the first 20 minutes or so and this shortcoming  has its roots in the script’s lack of clarity and direction. The story seems stranded which is so common in Iranian movies. What is Shadravan really all about? A man’s metamorphosis from a selfish person to a devoted one? The importance of helping someone up? or an effort to release a corpse from the hospital?!

Apparently, it is about all the above-mentioned, but in practice the director hasn’t been able to link these ideas well togetherEach section of the movie deals with one aspect and all you see is incompatibility.

Three features of Shadravan

Behrang Alavi’s performance which is unlike his other roles in other films

Professional make-up

Scanty humor and fragmentary account of the story

Ali Naeimi

Shadravan is an observational movie by Hosein Namazi, a paradoxical encounter of comedy and tragedy. It’s a genre we have already seen in other directors’ films such as Reza Kahani.

Three features of Shadravan

Skillful act especially by Behrang Alavi and Sina Mehrad

The sequence in a registry for receiving an ID card

Creating comic moments

Kamal Poor Kaveh

Just like many other films produced in the contemporary cinema of Iran, Shadravan takes its audience as naïve, undemanding and uncritical!It reminds us of the soap operas of 70s in Iran like Zire Asemane Shahr with one notable difference and that is cheap and vulgar humour. Actors like Gelare Abasi and Nazanin Bayati who had only begun to make a name for themselves, ruined their reputation by appearing in this movie.

Three features of Shadravan

The devastating ending

Behrang Alavi’s different acting

The romantic relationship between the actors Gelare Abasi and Sina Mehrad which is hilarious

What the cast and crew said

Hosein Namazi

I had written an account of this story in a newspaper and decided to make a movie out of it using my own interpretation. If I feel like I have what it takes to make a film, I’ll definitely go for it. The ending of Shadravan is by no means comic, but rather melodramatic and a sweet one indeed!

Sina Mehrad

When I was offered a role in Shadravan, I admired Hosein Namazi and Abas Naderan for having taken this risk. I went through the script and weren’t concerned about my different though not challenging role.

Roya Teymoorian

Hosein Namazi and I had already worked with each other. I already knew he embarks on a new movie production after listening to many ideas and suggestions. Hence, I didn’t hesitate to play the role of Nazi. I would call it a transparent refreshing movie.

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