Archive of films There Are Things You Don't Know / Chiz-haie hast keh nemidani
Iran
2010, 92 min
Section:
Official Selection - Competition
Year: 2010
Late-shift taxi driver Ali Mosaffa works the "mean streets” of Tehran and in the process he meets a wide variety of people. The lovely, lonely Leila starts to play an important role among his customers.... With a nod to Scorsese’s Taxi Driver (1976), debut director Fardin Saheb Zamani’s melancholy, disquieting drama tells of alienation and the various roles which people assign themselves and others.
Synopsis
Late-shift taxi driver Ali works the "mean streets” of Tehran and in the process he encounters a wide variety of people. The taciturn, disconsolate man meets the owner of the last traditional café in the city, Denis, and the lovely Leila, both of whom start to play an important role among his customers. Ali gets closer to the secretive young woman due to their similar personalities and deep internal isolation. While waiting for an anticipated earthquake to happen, the only apocalypse to shake his deliberately enclosed world is the truth about his love. Behind banal conversations full of unfinished sentences, the protagonists’ pasts betray deep traumas which have deflected them from their original paths in life.... With a nod to Scorsese’s Taxi Driver (1976), debut director Fardin Saheb Zamani’s melancholy, disquieting drama tells of alienation and the various roles which people assign themselves and others.
About the director

Fardin Saheb Zamani (b. 1963, Tehran) graduated from Tehran’s University of Art. He has shot three short films and established himself professionally as a sound designer. The drama There Are Things You Don’t Know is his writer-director debut.
Contacts
Iranian Independents
P.O. Box 15875-4769, , Tehran
Iran
Tel: +98 912 319 8693
Fax: +98 912 3198693
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.iranianindependents.com
About the film
Color, 35 mm
World premiere
Section: | Official Selection - Competition |
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Director: | Fardin Saheb Zamani |
Screenplay: | Fardin Saheb Zamani |
Dir. of Photography: | Houman Behmanesh |
Music: | Amir-Ali Vajed Samiei |
Editor: | Fardin Saheb Zamani |
Producer: | Manijeh Hekmat |
Production: | Bamdad Film |
Cast: | Ali Mosafa, Leila Hatami, Mahtab Keramati |
Contact: | Iranian Independents |
Guests

Fardin Saheb Zamani
Film Director, Film Editor

Hooman Behmanesh
Director of Photography

Leila Hatami
Actress

Ali Mosaffa
Film Director, Film Director

Bahador Nemati
Film Crew