List of Persian/Iranian Events for 2005-04-08

IRAN FILM, - Deserted Station

Iran, 88 minutes, 35mm, Color, 2002, In Farsi with English Subtitles
Based on a concept the director and Abbas Kiarostami developed on a photography trip together, a man and a young woman (Leila Hatami of Leila) are stranded in a remote village after their car breaks down. The photographer and the sole adult male inhabitant, a schoolteacher, leave to get help while the young woman, herself childless, bonds with the children whose parents are nowhere to be found.

“A masterpiece.” – San Francisco Chronicle

“Uniformly excellent.” - Variety

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Cast

Leila Hatami as The Wife
Nezam Manouchehri as The Husband
Mehran Rajabi as Feizollah
Mahmoud Pak Neeyat as The Signal Guard

Crew

Director Ali Reza Raisian
Dir. Photography Mahammad Aladpoush
Draft written by Abbas Kiarostami
Producer Hossein Zandof
Scriptwriter Kambozia Partovi
Editor Hossein Zandof
Production Designer Mohsen Shah Ebrahimi
Sound Parviz Abnar, Julien Klocke
Music Peymen Yazdanian

Ali Reza Raisian was born in 1955 in Tehran. Graduating in film direction from College of Television, Raisian made the short film, THIRD HYPOTHESIS as his graduation project and then began his professional career as screenwriter and assistant director. After directing a number of short films, he made his first feature film, REYHANEH in 1990. His second film, THE JOURNEY, which was based on a screenplay by Abbas Kiarostami, was shown in San Sebastian, Sao Paulo, Hong Kong and London film festivals. He was producer of Rakhshan Bani Etemad's THE MAY LADY (1998) as well as a number of documentaries and short films by Jafar Panahi, Bahman Kiarostami, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Manouchehr Tayyab, etc. His latest film, THE DESERTED STATION, based on an idea by Abbas Kiarostami and a script by Kambozia Partovi, was produced with the support of French Ministry of Culture.


San Francisco, CA...Roxie Theatre...July 2-8, 2004
Milwaukee, WI…Union Theatre…November 12-14, 2004
Olympia, WA…Olympia Film Society…November 13, 2004
New York, NY…Quad Cinema...Opens December 3, 2004
New Orleans, LA…Zeitgeist…December 16-19, 2004
New York, NY…The Pioneer Theatre…Opens December 17, 2005
Pittsburgh, PA…Harris Theatre…January 1-9, 2005
Cincinnati, OH…Cincinnati Film Society…opens January 13, 2005
Peekskill, NY…Paramount Theatre…January 27-30, 2005
Houston, TX…Rice Media Center…February 4-6, 2005
Fergus Falls, MN...A Center for the Arts…February 6-16, 2005
Bar Harbor, ME… Reel Pizza Cinerama…March 1-3, 2005
Anchorage, AK…Anchorage Museum…March 5-6, 2005
Montpelier, VT…Savoy Theatre…March 20-23, 2005
Gainesville, FL…Hippodrome Cinema…April 8-14, 2005
Cleveland, OH…Cleveland Cinematheque…April 21-24, 2005
Charlotte, NC…The Manor…May 13-19, 2005