'Be Calm, Count to Seven' wins international film awards
Tehran, April 6, IRNA -- The movie 'Be Calm, Count to Seven' by Iranian Ramtin
Lavafipour clinched two international film prizes from Italy and Switzerland.
Lavafipour was awarded by the Rome and Fribourg International Film Festivals in
March 2009.
He also has won the VPRO Tiger Award of annual Film Festival Rotterdam in
January 2009.
Be Calm, Count to Seven is to be screened in the Buenos Aires, Argentina, and
Hong Kong film festivals this week.
The movie narrates story of some people living in one of the Iranian islands in
the Persian Gulf and their lives get involved in each others accidentally.
Be Calm and Count to Seven
(above, trailer), Ramtin Lavafipour's feature-film début,
chronicles the day-to-day struggles of a family in Iran's southern islands,
whose chief source of income is smuggling.
