Type:
Feature Film
Director:
Bahman Farmanara
Year:
2000
Time:
93 minutes
Produced by:
Morteza Shayeste
Written by:
Bahman Farmanara
Edited by:
Abbas Ganjavi
Language:
In Farsi with English subtitles
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Winner! FIPRESCI Prize
- Istanbul International Film Festival, 2001
Winner! Special Grand Prize of the Jury
- Montréal World Film Festival, 2000
"Fascinating and Entertaining!"
- Chicago Reader
"A humorously death-haunted psychodrama."
- The Village Voice
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In this audacious black comedy, Bahman Farjami, a filmmaker who has not directed for twenty years due to censorship, experiences a strange set of coincidences that convince him that the Angel of Death must be near. As a means of confronting his fears, he decides to make a film about his own funeral. As he researches the funeral rites of his country and culture, Farjami glimpses a side of Iranian society which he was not aware of. In the midst of this, his view is shaded by his own mounting family problems. Through a series of fiascos leading to a comic and cathartic vision of his own disastrous funeral, he goes on an emotional roller-coaster ride that culminates in a Fellini-esque dream so intense that it may lead to his actual death.
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