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Sarikend

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  • CountryIran,Iran
  • Production Year2013
  • Running Time74min
  • Format (Digi)Beta
  • ColorColor
Program Note
A short meeting between a TV commercial film director and a lonely old man. Their meeting was fleeting, but the old man’s lifelong loneliness leaves a strong impression on the director. TV Commercial film director, Farhad goes in search of a sunflower village between Iran and Turkey to shoot a film for a sunflower commercial. There he meets Morad, a school groundskeeper from Turkey with a sad story. He tries to cast Morad in his commercial, but Morad will only agree to do it if one of the crewmembers, Ayda, shoots with him. His reason is that Ayda looks like his long-lost love, Bahar, who many years ago died a tragic death. In the end, the sunflower garden disappears, and the shooting is cancelled. What Farhad and Morad share is a life that resembles a sunflower. But the director does not make Morad’s pain the centre of the plot; it is only expressed indirectly amid a background full of beautiful sunflowers. (KIM Ji-Seok)
Director
Director
Mehdi PARIZAD
Mehdi Parizad was born in 1973 in Khoy. Parizad started his artistic career in theatre and photography. He obtained his degree in film directing from the Iranian Broadcasting College in 2000 and believes that he learned more by creating short films than during formal studies. His filmography includes The Smell of Gunpowder (short, 1999), The Windows of Heaven (short, 2003). Sarikend (2013) is his debut feature film.
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  • Director Mehdi PARIZAD 메흐디 파리자드
  • Cast Mazloomi Faroogh, Feizi Fathali, Kashkuli Farid
  • Screenplay Hafez Khiyavi, Mehdi Parizad
  • Cinematography Rohollah Beygi, Roozbeh Jafarzadeh
  • Editor Babak Shirinsefat, Seyed Ahmad Mousavi