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"UNFINISHED STORIES"
(Ravayat haye na tamam)

Director & Scriptwriter: Pourya Azarbayjani
Director of Photography: Morteza Ghafori
Sound Recorder: Daryoush Sadghapour
Sound Designer & Mix: Hossein Abolsedgh
Music: Mohammad Seyedi
Editor: Mastaneh Mohajer
Production Manager: Ahmad Moradi
Producers: Pourya Azarbayjani and Jalil Shabani
Cast: Setareh Pesyani, Hengameh  Ghaziani  and Saiideh Amir Saii
Color, 76 min, 35 mm, 1:1/66, 2007

   
SYNOPSIS:

The three episodes film tells the story of 3 young women, Setareh, Hengameh and Saiideh who share the same situation: they have no where to go and have to spend the night on the street.

Setareh, is a young girl who has running away from home because her parents are against her marriage with the boy she loves. She is waiting for him to join her in the bus stop so that they can runway together…

Hengameh, is a pregnant woman who has left her house after a big quarrel with her husband who is unwilling to have a baby. She is looking for someone to abort her child … 

 

Saiideh whose husband is in prison must runway from the hospital at night with her new born baby for she has no money to pay the bill but …

These three women have three different stories but show different stages and situations of women .One young girl who wants who to be married, another married woman who wants to have baby and the last one who had a baby and tries to keep it but  they are all abandoned by their families and are obliged to solve their problem on their own.

 

BIOGRAPHY:  

Pourya Azarbayjani was born in 1981. He has a BA in Directing in Theater from Soreh College in Tehran. He started his career by working as the assistant director. In 2000 he produced and directed many short films. "Unfinished Stories" is his first feature film as a director and producer.

FILMOGRAPHY

  • Autumn Travelers                                            2000       14 min
  • Contrast                                                         2001       10 min
  • A street with no number                                  2004       18 min
  • For two cups of tea                                         2004       21 min
  •  I had come to have a cup of tea with Earth       2004       30 min
  • Unfinished Stories                                            2006       75 min

FESTIVALS:

  1. Toronto Int'l Film Festival (6 – 15 Sep 2007/ Canada)
  2. Chicago Int'l Film Festival(6 – 28 Oct 2007/ USA)
  3. Denver Film Society (8 – 18 Nov 2007/ USA)
  4. Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (9 – 24 Nov 2006/ USA)
  5. Int'l Film Festival of Kerala (7 – 14 Dec / 2007 / India)
  6. Museum of Fine Arts, Washington DC and Houston (11 Jan 2008 in Washington DC/ 19 Jan 2008 in Houston/ USA)
  7. Goteborg Int’l Film Festival (25 Jan – 4 Feb 2008/ Sweden)
  8. Int’l Film Festival Rotterdam (23 Jan – 3 Feb 2008/ Holland)
  9. Tiburon Int’l F.F. (13 – 21 March 2008/ USA)
  10. Washington DC Int’l Film Festival (24 April – 4 May 2008/ USA)
  11. Syracuse Int’l Film Festival (25 April – 4 May 2008/ USA)
  12. Cinema Jove Int’l Film Festival (21 – 28 June 2008/ Spain)
  13. Art Film Int’l Film Festival (27 June – 6 July 2008/ Slovak Republic)
  14. Belgian Royal Film Archive (1 – 15 July 2008/ Belgium)
  15. Durban Int’l Film Festival (23 July – 3 August 2008/ South Africa)
  16. Warsaw Int'l Film Festival (10 – 19 Oct 2008/ Poland)
  17. Hong Kong Asian Film Festival (10 – 26 Oct 2008/ Hong Kong)
  18. Ourense Int'l Film Festival (11 – 18 Oct 2008/ Spain)
  19. Third Eye Asian Film Festival (16 – 23 Oct 2008/ India)

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