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58th TIFF: Greek Premiere

A well-respected forensic pathologist gets involved in a car accident, where an 8-year-old boy is injured. The man offers to pay compensation and take the kid to a hospital, but the father refuses. The next morning, the boy’s body is brought for an autopsy in the hospital where the pathologist works, but tthe results of the first diagnosis indicate food poisoning. A fine example of the cinema of moral dilemmas, infused with the Iranian film tradition of meticulous character study, an elegy for the ideal men we dreamt to be but buried within.

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Direction: Vahid Jalilvand

Script: Ali Zarnegar, Vahid Jalilvand

Cinematography: Peyman Shadmanfar

Editing: Vahid Jalilvand, Sepehr Vakili

Sound: Amin Mirshekari

Music: Peyman Yazdanian

Actors: Navid Mohammadzadeh, Amir Agha’ee, Hediyeh Tehran

Production: Noori Pictures

Producers: Ali Jalilvand & Ehsan Alikhani

Sets: Mohsen Nassrollahi

Make Up: Abdollah Eskandari

Format: DCP

Color: Color

Production Country: Iran

Production Year: 2017

Duration: 104'

Contact: Noori Pictures

Awards/Distinctions: Best Director Award, Best Actor Award– Orizzonti, Venice IFF 2017, Italy

Vahid Jalilvand

Vahid Jalilvand was born in Tehran in 1976. He is a graduate of Tehran University in Theater Directing. Jalilvand started his career as a theater actor and made his stage debut when he was only 15. In 1996, he started working in the Iranian State TV channels as an editor and then as a TV director. Later, he directed more than 30 documentaries. Wednesday, May 9, his first feature, was awarded with the FIPRESCI Prize, the INTERFILM Award for Promoting Interreligious Dialogue in Orizzonti, Venice Film Festival 2015, and many other international awards.