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Director: Matthew Rankin
Feature filmCDN 202489'OmeU
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The best Iranian film ever made by a Canadian. Matthew Rankin (THE TWENTIETH CENTURY) transforms his hometown of Winnipeg into a mixture of French Canadian snow desert and Tehran circa 1985 for his loving homage to filmmakers such as Abbas Kiarostami and Jafar Panahi. What may sound like an inside joke for film nerds has actually turned out as a heart-rending comedy full of poetry and surreal humour. It deservedly won the Audience Award in the Quinzaine des cinéastes section at Cannes this year.
Director
Matthew Rankin
Screenplay
Pirouz Nemati, Ila Firouzabadi, Matthew Rankin
Producers
Sylvain Corbeil
Cinematography
Isabelle Stachtchenko
Editing
Feng Xi
Music
Amir Amiri, Christophe Lamarche-Ledoux
Sound
Pablo Villegas, Armin Firouzabadi
Production Design
Louisa Schabas
Cast
Rojina Esmaeili, Saba Vahedyousefi, Sobhan Javadi, Pirouz Nemati, Matthew Rankin
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