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It's Winter (Zemastan)

International Showcase
Iran, 2006, 86 minIn Persian with English subtitlesDirected By: Rafi Pitts

Writer: Rafi Pitts
Producer: Mohammad Mehdi Dadgoo

Cinematographer: Mohammad Davoodi

Editor: Hassan Hassandoost

Music: Hossein Alizadeh, Mohammad Reza Shajarian

Cast: Mitra Hadjar, Ali Nicksolat, Saeed Orkani, Ashem Abdi, Zahra JafariWriter-director Rafi

Pitts carefully cultivates stark beauty in this neorealist drama based on a novel by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi and the heartbreaking poetry of Mehdi Akhavan Sales. A hot-blooded mechanic arrives in a meager town on the outskirts of Tehran where, under the bleak curtain of winter, he falls in love with a woman whose husband has left her behind to seek a better life abroad. With its undercurrents of sexual tension and a vulnerable yet volatile antihero, this is one of the most daring Iranian films in many years.

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