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Source: Fajr International Film Festival, Tehran,
Iran
Winner
of:
Best Screenplay Special Jury
Award Best Popular
Films Interfaith Juries Award
Director: Kamal Tabrizi
Producer: Manuchehr Mohammadi

Screenwriter: Peyman Qasemkhani Photographer: Hamid Khozui
Abyaneh Music: Mohammad Reza Aliqoli Editor: Hossein Zandbaf Sound
recordist: Mahmud Sammakbashi Sound mix: Mohsen Roshan Art director:
Farhad Vilkiji Make-up: Majid Eskandari Cast: Parviz Parastui, Rana
Azadivar, Bahram Ebrahimi, Reza Saeedi, Mehran Rajabi, Shahrokh Forutanian,
Maedeh Tahmasbi, Ali Abedini, Naqi Seif-Jamali 115' ,
Color
Kamal
Tabrizi , born in 1959,
he graduated in Cinema and Television from Art University. He began his artistic
activities at the students society of Polytechnique College and then joined the
cultural sections of I.R.I.B. Television where he made a number of short and
feature-length documentary and T.V. feature films. Then for several years he was
in charge of training programs at the former Azad Cinema Group and organized
training programs in filmmaking and taught film direction and theory. He also
taught at the Young Cinema Society of Iran and the Islamic Training Center for
Filmmaking - affiliated with the ministry of culture and Islamic guidance. His
first feature is the passage (1988) which he wrote and directed. His subsequent
films are At the Altar of Love (1990), End of Childhood (1993) and Leyli Is With
Me (1995) Which Launched a new trend in treating war and the sacred defense
themes in a comedic, satirical vein. Leyli Is With Me was presented at
numerous local and international film festivals and won the prize of Best Script
and Diploma of Honor for Best Actor at the Fajr Festival. In 1998, Tabrizi made
A Mother’s Love which was awarded several prizes at international festivals,
including the prize of Best Film at the children and young people’s section of
Berlin Festival, and Best Film award at Zlin,
Cairo, Olympia and 400-strokes (Canada) festivals.
Tabrizi then made Sheyda (2000), Carpet of the Wind, Take a Look at the Sky
Sometimes (2002), Carpet of the Wind was awarded the spectators’ a prize and the
special jury prize at Fajr Film Festival in 2002. Tabrizi has also directed two
T.V. series Tales of the River (an Iran-Malaysia Coproduction, unreleased), and
years of Rebellion which was a highly popular series and was selected as the
critics’ choice of Best T.V. series.
Tabrizi was also jury member at several editions of the short Film
Festival organized by the Young Cinema Society, two editions of the
International Festival of Films for Children and Young Adults, and at Fajr
International Film Festival and Cairo International Film
Festival.
Synopsis:
Reza, a burglar with previous prison records, is arrested during his
latest armed robbery. As he can not bear to stay in prison, he thinks up a
strange ruse to get out of prison. However, getting rid of the ruse itself turns
out to be a greater problem.
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