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France - Iran / 2005 - 83 mn. 35 mm. - Color - 1,85 Dolby Digital (SRD) - Persan (VOSTF)
Directed by Sepideh Farsi
Writter : Sepideh Farsi - Javad Djavahery Photo : Jamshid Alvandi - Editor : Sepideh Farsi – Hossein Zandbaf - Music : Christophe Rezaï - Mix : Bruno Tarrière - Producer : Javad Djavahery et Iraj Taghipoor
With : Hamid-Reza Danechvar, Fariba Kossari, Behnaz Jafari, Mohamad Hatami, Houshang Ghovanlou, Mohamad Assadi, Bijan Hejazi, Hossein Fallah, Saadi Afshar, Ehsan Daneshmandi

Esfandyar, an Iranian expatriate in Paris on the verge of loosing his sight, returns to Iran after a twenty year absence. He has to confront the ghosts of his past. His father, who is about to die, and his old love Forough, who has married Esfandyar's father in the meantime, thus becoming his stepmother. Among political betrayals of the past and his love conflict with Forough, Esfandyar has many accounts to settle before he sinks in the darkness.

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Cinemart 2000, Laureate of Global Film Initiative (2005), Screenplay developped in CECI
Festivals: Rotterdam 2006 (compétition), Jeonju-Corée (compétition), Shanghai Film Festival (Panorama), Rencontres Internationales/Paris Cinema , Brisbane Film Festival, Rabat Film Festival (competition), Barcelona Political Cinema (competition), Kerala film festival (competition)