Fiction

ZIRE PUSTE SHAHR

Under the Skin of the City
Rakhshan Bani-etemad
Iran 2001
92 min
V'01

In the heat of parliamentary elections in Iran there is an atmosphere of great expectations and anxiety in the air. Like many other Iranians, Tuba and her family, modest and hard-working, are trying to negotiate between their present hardship and their hopes for the future. Tuba works in a factory and, despite her hardship, she does her best to hold her family together. Her eldest son Abbas, like all other young people in Iran, is not resigned to his predicament. He is trying to obtain a visa, go to work in a foreign country, make some money, and improve his family's lot. In his haste and enthusiasm, Abbas puts Tuba's sole source of solace, her modest home, in jeopardy.

Credits
  • Baran Kosari
  • Golab Adineh - Tuba
  • Mohammad Reza Foroutan - Abbas
  • Ebrahim Shaybani
  • Mohsen Ghazi Moradi
  • Homeyra Riazi
  • Ali Osivand
  • Mehraveh Sharifinia
  • Farid Mostafavi
  • Rakhshan Bani-etemad
  • Hossein Jafarian
  • Ashgar Shahverdi
  • Mostafa Kherghepush
  • Omid Mohit
Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Jahangir Kosaric/o Farabi Cinema Foundation55 Sie-Tir AvenueTehran 11358, IranT 21 670 10 10 fcf1@dpi.net.ir

Farabi Cinema Foundation55 Sie-Tir AvenueTehran 11358, IranT 21 670 10 10 fcf1@dpi.net.ir

35 mm
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