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/ 1998 / Persian / Color / 35mm/ 35 min
Director: Mahvash Sheykh-al-Eslami
Photography: Morteza Poorsamadi
Editing: Abass Ganjavi
Music: Atabardi Vojdani
Source: Iranian Young Cinema Society
Ghandi Ave. 19th St. No. 20, P.O. Box 15175/163, Tehran IRAN
Phone & Fax: 98-21-8795675
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M.
Sheykh-al-eslami
Born in 1946. Graduated from London Film School, directing many fiction
films and documentaries. Her directing experience includes:
Dear Uncle Napoleon (1975), Hezardastan, Sarbedaran, Mirza
Kochak Khan. Her documentary films are: The Ball (1973),
Hygene, The Ghirokazerin Earthquake, Kangan, White Garments(1996),
and The Hands (1997). |
In a village at
the foot of a breathtaking mountain range lives Altina, a young woman
who is expecting a baby. In the daily rhythm of her quiet and solitary
life, breeding silkworms and doing housework, she feels at peace with
herself and the world. Ever waiting for her long-absent husband to
return, her belly is growing. Her silkworms eat away a room-full of
mulberry leaves - and are nurtured just like her anticipation for the
coming child.
Director's
Statement
The village "Yel cheshme" is where the film was photographed. Being
there led me to understand the loneliness of women, and the silence
of mountains better. A kind of silence and calm which teaches us to
be powerful against difficulties. Documentary filmmaking causes us
to find out these virgin places and isolated people.
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