IFFI-2008 - International Film Festival of India
IFFI-2008 - International Film Festival of India
IFFI-2008 - International Film Festival of India
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<strong>IFFI</strong>-<strong>2008</strong><br />
COMPETITION<br />
NIKI KARIMI<br />
<strong>2008</strong>, 35 mm, Colour, 94 mins, Persian<br />
Iran<br />
3 Women / Seh Zan<br />
Three women <strong>of</strong> three generations, grandmother, mother and daughter, who have been<br />
lost in the past, present and future. Minoo, a 40-year-old woman, a carpet expert and<br />
darner, lost in her obsessions and doubts, tries to save an ancient and precious rug. Her<br />
daughter's left and Minoo's looking for some traces to find her. Minoo's mother suffers<br />
from forgetfulness and carrying the same precious and ancient rug, she's lost in search <strong>of</strong><br />
her memoirs in a route toward her past. Minoo, wandering among her lost ones, seeks her<br />
own truth, while looking for her mother and daughter. Pegah, Minoo's daughter, has left<br />
her mother, lonely and aimlessly, passes the roads in remote regions <strong>of</strong> her country, Iran.<br />
She confronts a young man, who wanders around and is lost in the roads too. These three<br />
women, through their searches, find out their common identities. Do these all would<br />
relate them again?<br />
Director<br />
Manijeh Hekmat<br />
Screenplay<br />
Naghmeh Samini<br />
Cinematography<br />
Dariush Ayyari<br />
Editor<br />
Mostafa Khergheh-Poush<br />
Music<br />
Heydar Sajedi<br />
Cast<br />
Niki Karimi, Pegah Ahangarani, Maryam Boubani, Reza<br />
Kianian, Babak Hamidian, Atyla Pessiani<br />
Art<br />
Mohsen Ahangarani<br />
Sound<br />
Parviz Abnar<br />
Costumes<br />
Zhila Mehrjui<br />
Production<br />
Manijeh Hekmat<br />
World Sales<br />
Mohammad Atebbai<br />
Iranian Independents<br />
PO Box 15875-4769<br />
Tehran, Iran<br />
T: (+98-912) 3198693<br />
F: (+98-21) 22271157<br />
Email: info@iranianindependents.com<br />
<strong>Festival</strong>s<br />
Edinburgh, Vancouver, AFI Los Angeles, Seoul <strong>International</strong><br />
Women's <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>, Hong Kong, Brisbane, Durban,<br />
Born in 1962 in Arak (Iran), Manijeh Hekmat is a prolific figure in Iranian cinema. She<br />
first got involved in film business as a experimental filmmaker and then as a scriptwriter.<br />
From 1980 onwards, Hekmat became assistant director and production designer in 25<br />
feature films. She started producing films in 1995, including the award-winning The Girl<br />
in the Sneakers and Bunch <strong>of</strong> Grass, a German production in Iranian Kurdistan. Women's<br />
Prison (2002) Hekmat's debut directorial film that is based on her long studies and fieldworks<br />
on Iranian women prisoners, has been shown in 80 international film festivals and<br />
received seven prizes. Three Women is her second film.<br />
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