Focus on Kurdish Film 2013 / Fasle kargadan / Iraq, Turkey 2012
A poet and his wife were incarcerated during the Islamic Revolution in Iran. After years in prison, Sahel sets out to find his beloved in Istanbul. But a man who also loves Mina is there waiting. The cruel truth emerges out of melancholy memories. The film was inspired by the diary of Kurdish poet Sadegh Kamangar.
A love story marked by fate as a classical tragedy: in 1979 during Iran’s Islamic Revolution, poet Sahel Farzan and his wife were incarcerated – she for 10 years, he for 30. Convinced that her husband is already dead, Mina takes her two kids and moves to Turkey. It is there that the aging Sahel goes to look for her after his release. But her longtime admirer is also near at hand, a man who mercilessly interferes in their lives. Finally, out of the depths of the past – out of all those melancholy memories, verses, and magical pictures – the cruel truth emerges. This mystery melodrama grows to become an indictment of the regime and of repressive mechanisms capable of human destruction. The movie was inspired by the diary of Kurdish poet Sadegh Kamangar. In the lead roles the director cast Iranian legend of pre-Revolution film Behrouz Vossoughi, Italian star Monica Bellucci, and Yılmaz Erdoğan, the popular Turkish actor-director of Kurdish origin. The work is being presented under the auspices of Martin Scorsese.
93 min / Color, DCP
Director Bahman Ghobadi
/ Screenplay Bahman Ghobadi
/ Dir. of Photography Touraj Aslani
/ Music Kayhan Kalhor
/ Editor Valérie Loiseleux
/ Producer Bahman Ghobadi
/ Production Mijfilm
/ Cast Behrouz Vossoughi, Monica Bellucci, Yilmaz Erdoğan, Caner Cindoruk
/ Contact Mij Film, GoodFellas
Bahman Ghobadi (b. 1969, Baneh, Iran) started out as a documentarist whose Life in a Fog (Zendegi dar meh, 1999) opened the way to world festivals. He acted in Samira Makhmalbaf’s Blackboards (Takhté siah, 2000) and gained recognition as a director with his feature debut A Time for Drunken Horses (Zamani barayé masti asbha, 2000). His war drama Turtles Can Fly (Lakposhtha hâm parvaz mikonand, 2004) took the Golden Shell at the San Sebastian IFF. He also shot a story about Kurdish musicians entitled Marooned in Iraq (Gomgashtei dar Aragh, 2002) and the road movie Half Moon (Niwemang, 2006). After making No One Knows About Persian Cats (Kasi az gorbehaye irani khabar nadareh, 2009), he left Iran to work in Turkey. In the fall of 2012 he began working on a new project in cooperation with Martin Scorsese.
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