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Shabe Napadid Shodane Arezou

  • Arian Vazirdaftari
  • Section: International Feature Film Competition
  • Genre: Fiction
  • Duration: 101 min.
  • Country: Alemania, Irán
  • Language: Persa
  • Year: 2026

Synopsis

During the 2022 protests in Tehran, piano teacher Rana?s teenage sister, Arezou, disappears. With her ex-partner and close friends, Rana searches for her through a long and desperate night, an experience shared by many Iranian families during the Women, Life, Freedom uprising. As the night goes on, they begin to see Arezou in strange, fleeting moments, making it harder to separate what is real from what they fear or remember.

Arian Vazirdaftari

Arian Vazirdaftari

Arian Vazirdaftari is a writer, director, and producer. His short film Like a Good Kid was selected for La Cinef at Cannes. His debut feature, Without Her, premiered at Venice and he co-wrote World War III, which was Iran?s 2023 Oscar entry.

Credits

D: Arian Vazirdaftari

G: Arian Vazirdaftari

F: Masoud Amini Tirani

E: Pooyan Sholevar

DA: Sara Azampanah

S: Zohreh Aliakbari

M: Sohrab Karamroudi

P: Arian Vazirdaftari

CP: Arian Vazirdaftari

I: Sonia Sanjari, Ebrahim Azizi, Kati Saleki, Shabnam Dadkhah, Paniz Khoshnik, -

Contact

E-mail: arian.vazirdaftari@gmail.com

Web: arianvazirdaftari.com

IG: @arian_vazirdaftari