Under the Moonlight

Zire nue mah, feature film, 2001

DIRECTED BY: Seyyed Mir-Karimi

Under the Moonlight

CAST:
Husein Parastar (Sayyed Hassan),
Hamed Radžabali (Chick),
Mehran Rajabi,
Mahmud Nazar-Alian,
Fereshteh Sadr Orfani

SCRIPT:
Seyyed Reza Mir-Karimi

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Hamid Khozui-Abyaneh

Synopsis:
Sayyed Hassan is a young seminarian who is just about to take his holy orders. Unfortunately, an unknown boy steals Sayyed’s clothing material for the ordainment ceremony. Searching for the boy and his clothes, Sayyed meets a group of homeless people who live under the bridge. They teach him a few “life-lessons” and encourage him to question his religious beliefs. This film received the audience’s award in Cannes in 2001.

color, 35 mm, 96 min