Type:
Feature Film
Director:
Ebrahim Hatamikia
Year:
2002
Time:
115 minutes
Produced by:
Manouchehr Mohammadi
Written by:
Asghar Farhadi & Ebrahim Hatamikia
Edited by:
Haydeh Safiyari
Language:
Farsi w/ English Subtitles
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Winner! Audience Award
- Fajr Film Festival, 2002
". . . so much more 'modern' and accessible than most films from Iran."
- Haro Online
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Based on a true story, Low Heights is an action film filled with dark humor. Against the backdrop of September 11, 2001, a nerve-frayed man orchestrates a hijacking to fly his child and pregnant wife out of Iran and provide them with a better life. His scheme includes filling the aircraft with his raucous extended family whom he has coaxed away from their war-torn city by telling them he has secured them jobs at a British oil company. A huge box office hit in Iran, this wild, fast-paced tragi-comedy explores different facets of the country's disillusionment and despair with energy, humor and insight. Filmmaker Ebrahim Hatamikia, who started out making propaganda films during the Iran-Iraq war, displays in this film his his growing criticism of the Islamic Republic and a world order that encroaches on human dignity and freedom.
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