In Competition
PARI
Directed by: Asghar Farhadi
Production Year: 2021 Country: Iran, France Length: 127 minutes
Synopsis
Rahim is in prison because of a debt he was unable to repay. During a two-day leave, he tries to convince his creditor to withdraw his complaint against the payment of part of the sum. But things don’t go as planned…
CREDITS
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Writer: Asghar Farhadi
Producers: Alexandre Mallet-Guy, Asghar Farhadi
Cinematographer: Ali Ghazi
Production Designer: Mehdi Mousavi
Editor: Haydeh Safiyari
Sound Design: Mohammadreza Delpak
CASTING
Amir Jadidi
Mohsen Tanabandeh
Fereshteh Sadrorafaii
Sahar Goldoust
Maryam Shahdaie
Ali Reza Jahandideh
Ehsan Goodarzi
Sarina Farhadi
In Competition – Feature Films
In Competition – Feature Films
Pari
Greece, France, Netherlands, Bulgaria | 2020 | 101 min | Unclassified 15+
SYNOPSIS
Stunned to discover that her son has vanished while studying abroad in Athens, Pari sets off on a desperate search across the Greek capital to find him. Navigating a foreign and forbidding landscape, Pari is forced out from the shadow of her spouse to take the lead in the search for her child. The feature debut from Iranian Greek director Siamak Etemadi portrays a woman who finds unsuspected depths of courage within herself.
FESTIVALS
Berlinale 2020
Zagreb Film Festival 2020
Pari
Greece, France, Netherlands, Bulgaria | 2020 | 101 min | Unclassified 15+
SYNOPSIS
Dutiful Iranian wife Pari (Melika Foroutan) and her much older husband Farrokh (Shahbaz Noshir) arrive in Athens to visit their student son Babak. But not only is he not waiting to greet them at the airport, he is no longer living at the address he gave them. Equipped with only faltering English and a mother’s determination, meek Pari is forced out from the shadow of her spouse to take the lead in the search for her child. The feature debut from Iranian Greek director Siamak Etemadi, Pari is an atmospheric portrait of a woman who discovers hitherto unsuspected depths and courage in an unpredictable city.
FESTIVALS
Berlinale 2020
CREDITS
Written & Directed: Siamak Etemadi
Producers Konstantinos Kontovrakis, Giorgos Karnavas
Cinematography: Claudio Bolivar
Editing: Panos Voutsaras
Music: Avia
Sound Boris Trayanov, Vincent Sinceretti, Jan Schermer
Production Design: Wilbert van Dorp
Costumes: Mayou Trikerioti
Make-up: Valentin Valov
Assistant Director: Miltos Ntzounis
Casting: Makis Gazis
Production Manager: Kostas Sfakianakis
CAST
Melika Foroutan
Shahbaz Noshir
Sofia Kokkali
Lena Kitsopoulou
Argyris Padazaras
Dimitris Xanthopoulos
