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"The Red Card"
(Carte Ghermez)
Version of BBC “DEATH OF A WAG (RED CARD)” (58’:15” min) is available now.
 

Director: Mahnaz Afzali
Photography: Mohammadreza Derakhshan, Khadijeh Jahed, Mahnaz Afzali
Editor: Bahman Kiarostami
Music: Selected from Iman Vaziri
Sound Designer and Mix: Keivan Jahanshahi
Assistant Director: Aida Pourshirazi, Sara Irani, Adham Lavasani
Producer: Hassan Pourshirazi
Video, Color, 74 min, 2006-2007

   
SYNOPSIS:

"The Red Card" is about one of the most complicated and controversial criminal files in judiciary system of Iran. Shahla Jahed, a 34 years old woman who was madly in love with a very famous Iranian Soccer player had a love affair with him for so long, now is accused of brutal murder of her lover's wife…
 Mahnaz Afzalli, not only could film the court sessions but also she was able to get the most honest moments of confessions which brings up the most unspeakable taboos of the society to the surface.

 BIOGRAPHY:  

Mahnaz Afzali is a well-known cinema and TV actress who has played in 14 feature films and 3 TV series. She directed her first documentary “No Witness” in 2000.
“The Ladies” is her second film in 2003 which was a big success and participated in more than 30 film festivals around the world such as IDFA.  “The Red Card” is her recent documentary in 2006.
 Right now she is in the process of making a documentary film based on her interviews with female prisoners; she wants to publish some of these interviews in a book.

FILMOGRAPHY

Documentary:    

  • No Witness      45 min,    2006
  • The Ladies       55 min,    2003
  • The Red Card   74 min,    2006

FESTIVALS:

  1. IDFA / Joris Ivens Competition (2006/ Netherlands)
  2. Zagreb Int'l Film Festival
  3. Oxdox Int'l Doc Film Festival (10 – 25 March 2007/ UK)
  4. Festival Cinema Africano (19 – 25 March 2007/ Italy)
  5. Aljazzera Int'l Film Festival (23 – 26April 2007/ Aljazzera)
  6. Munich Doc. Int'l Film Festival (2 – 10 May 2007/ Germany)
  7. Chicago Int'l Film Festival (6 – 28 Oct 2007/ USA)
  8. Viennal Int'l Film Festival (19 – 31 Oct 2007/ Austria)
  9. Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (9 – 24 Nov 2007/ USA)
  10. Jugend im Dialog Austausch der Kulturen (23 Nov 2007/ Germany)
  11. Courmayeur Noir in Festival (4 – 10 Dec 2007/ Italy)
  12. Friburg Int’l Film Festival (1 – 8 March / 2008 / Switzerland)
  13. Hot Docs Canadian Int'l Documentary Festival (17 – 27 April 2008/ Canada)
  14. UCLA Int’l Film Festival (5 April 2008/ USA)
  15. Syracuse Int’l Film Festival (25 April – 4 May 2008/ USA)
  16. Durban Int’l Film Festival (23 July – 3 August 2008 / South Africa)
  17. Mar del Plate Int'l Film Festival (6 – 16 Nov. 2008/ Argentina)

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