Night Bus

Autobus-e Shahbaneh, feature film, 2007

DIRECTED BY: Kiomars Pourahmad

Night Bus

CAST:
Mehrdad Sedighian (Essa),
Elnaz Shakerdoust,
Khosro Shakibai,
Mohammad Reza Forutan

SCRIPT:
Habib Ahmadzadeh,
Kiomars Pourahmad,
Hasan Shekari

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Mehdi Jafari

Synopsis:
This is a war drama taking place during the Iranian and Iraqi conflict in 1980s. Three Iranian soldiers are forced to take thirty eight Iraqi prisoners to a military base. Eighteen years old Essa faces a dangerous mission when he has to spend the night dealing with a stubborn and temperamental driver, wounded soldier, shabby bus and crossing a dangerous part of the land full of mines.

b/w, 90 min