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"THE TWILIGHT"
(Gagooman)
 

Director & Scriptwriter: Mohammad Rasoulof
Director of Photography: Reza Jalali
Editor: Mitra Karagah
Sound: Mohammad Habibi
Cast:Ali Reza Shalikaran, Fatemeh Bijan, Zeinab Elahi,Ali Reza Mahdavian,Zoleira Bijan, Amir Hossein Shalikaran, Farajollah Shalikaran
Producers: Houshang Noorollahi, M. Rasoulof
Executive producer: Habib Hemmati
Color, 83min, 35mm, 2002

   
SYNOPSIS:

A strange event occurred in one of the Northeast prisons of Iran in 1998. The head of prison chose a man-prisoner of 34, who had been sentenced many times during his youth, to marry a woman-prisoner sentenced to life imprisonment. They begin their life together for one day a week in one of the rooms of the prison. 
After a while, they have a child and sometimes later, the woman is forgiven. Seven months later, the man’s conviction is over too, and they have the chance of living together out of the prison, but the rude society is waiting for them …
This film is played by the real characters.

BIOGRAPHY:  

Mohammad Rasoulof was born in 1973 in Shiraz. He studied sociology, during which he pursued his interest in cinema. He saw cinema as a more effective way of influencing society . He started with short films. He was the assistant of director Rasuul Sadr Ameli who was awarded at Locarno 2002 with I Am Taraneh, 15. His first feature was awarded for The Best First Feature Film at Fajr Film festival 2003.

FILMOGRAPHY

Documentary:

  • Taste of Dust              2001

Doc-Fiction:    

  • The Twilight                2002 

Short doc-Fiction:

  • Friday                          1991
  • The Pin                       1993
  • Seven Dreams              1994
  • Ten Seconds More        1995
  • The Glass House           1997
  • Evening Party               1999

FESTIVALS:

  1. Locarno International Film Festival (2003/ Switzerland)
  2. Montreal International Film Festival (2003/ Canada)
  3. Cairo International Film Festival (2003/ Egypt)
  4. Sao Paulo International Film Festival (2003/ Brazil)
  5. Thessaloniki Int`l Film Festival (2003/ Greece)
  6. International Film Festival of Kerala (2003/ India)
  7. Chicago International Film Festival (2003/ USA)
  8. Museum of Fine Arts (2003/ USA)
  9. Paul International Film Festival (2004/ USA)

  10. DocPoint – Helsinki documentary Film Festival (23 – 27 Jan 2008/ Helsinki)

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