- 2001年戛纳电影节影评人周单元最佳影片奖 2001年东京国际电影节最佳导演奖、评审团奖 神学院学生赛耶德·哈桑即将升职做牧师,偏偏在就职典礼之前他的礼服被一个小男孩偷去了。于是他追踪到一个边远的郊区,那里的居民生活贫苦,从未见过牧师,对此知之甚少。最后,赛耶德学会了重要的一课:在宗教教义与艰难的生活现实生活存在着鸿沟,而这样的差异需要用情感去填补。雷萨-米尔卡瑞米导演在东京国际电影节致词时特别强调,他想告诉大家其实伊斯兰教是很爱好和平的宗教,而且也反对恐怖主义,并不是一种带暴力色彩的宗教。 与我们同根同种的亚洲人拍的这片子里,处处使我觉得亲切熟稔。年轻人憨憨而不知所措的表情、学校长者官腔却不乏真情的训导、暗淡而陈旧的店铺、城市角落里最卑微的人群、缓慢的生活,这一切都像是我们自己在成长路上所经历所看见过的。 他们多诚实,伊朗的贫困与落后历历地显现出来。可我敢说,这片子能打动的绝不止我一个人,也不止我们这些亚洲人。描绘贫穷而非展示贫穷,坦陈伤口而非哀矜伤口,伊朗的导演实在胜过我们某些所谓著名导演太多。
- IN THE LAND OF BROTHERS is the intertwined story of Afghan refugees of Iran, in three decades. Starting in 1990, there is a ten-year gap between each episode. Masoumeh: An Afghan woman is searching for her missing husband who hasn't come home in two days, in the middle of a riot in Mashhad. Her daughter Hanieh is losing her hearing and wonders where her father is. Mohammad: A t...
- Just two weeks before Roya, a banned Iranian journalist, is set to emigrate from Iran to Denmark at her husband’s insistence, she encounters a quiet young girl. The girl seems lost and doesn’t remember anything. Roya takes her in, unaware that the girl has abandoned her previous life and now has come to replace Roya. A couple of days later, Roya finds out that she will be prohibited from leaving Iran unless she sells out a colleague to the government authorities. Soon after Roya refuses to betray her friend, the young girl steals Roya’s identity and takes over her life with the assistance of Roya’s husband, Babak. As Roya fights to recover her identity, she realises, to her surprise, that no one remembers her anymore and that everybody takes the lost girl to be her. Babak throws Roya out of the house, at which point the authorities decide that Roya is to be exiled to another life as a passive housewife named Hanieh.
- Akbar has just turned eighteen. He has been held in a rehabilitation centre for committing murder at the age of sixteen when he was condemned to death. Legally speaking, he had to reach the age of eighteen so that the conviction could be carried out. Now, Akbar is transferred to prison to await the day of his execution. A'la, a friend of Akbar, who himself has undergone impriso...