Archive of films 3 Faces / Se Rokh

Iran
2018, 100 min

Section: Horizons
Year: 2018

One day, well-known actress Behnaz Jafari receives a painfully cruel video from a girl whose parents have forbidden her to study acting. Behnaz immediately cancels the shoot she is working on and, accompanied by director Jafar Panahi, heads off to the locations where the video was made. Recipient of Best Screenplay at this year’s Cannes festival, the film offers up a reflection on artistic freedom and acting, and on traditions that can enrich and restrict at the very same time.

Synopsis

One day, film and TV star Behnaz Jafari receives a desperate video from a girl whose parents have forbidden her from studying acting. Behnaz immediately cancels the shoot she is working on and, accompanied by director Jafar Panahi, heads off to the locations where the video was made. 3 Faces, which took Best Screenplay at this year’s festival in Cannes, deftly combines fiction and reality. The two protagonists portray themselves in a sophisticated, subtly humorous meditation on freedom, art and respect for actresses and women in general. The film’s title symbolically brings together three generations of actresses: icon of Iranian cinema Shahrzad, the aforementioned Behnaz Jafari and the young, as-yet unknown Marziyeh Rezaei.

Anna Kořínek

About the director

Jafar Panahi (b. 1960, Iran). Filmography: The White Balloon (Badkonake Sefid, 1995), The Mirror (Avneh, 1997), The Circle (Dayereh, 2000), Crimson Gold (Talaye Sorkh, 2003), Offside (2006), This Is Not a Film (In film nist, 2011), Closed Curtain (Pardé, 2013), Taxi Tehran (Taxi, 2015)

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About the film

Color, DCP

Section:	Horizons

Director:	Jafar Panahi
Screenplay:	Jafar Panahi, Nader Saeivar
Dir. of Photography:	Amin Jafari
Editor:	Mastaneh Mohajer, Panah Panahi
Producer:	Jafar Panahi
Production:	Jafar Panahi Film Production
Cast:	Behnaz Jafari, Jafar Panahi, Marziyeh Rezaei, Maedeh Erteghaei
Sales:	Celluloid Dreams
Contact:	Pascale Ramonda

Guests

Tahereh Saeidi Balsini

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