The White Meadows
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The White Meadows
Keshtzar Haye Sepid
Iran, 2009, 93 Minute Running Time
Topics: Drama, Middle East, Political
Program: World Cinema Now
Language: Farsi English Sub-Titles
From the director of Iron Island, here’s another thinly veiled magical-realist allegory of sociopolitical oppression and the misery it causes. This visually elegant, logistically dumbfounding film operates without literalism and takes the viewer into an imaginative world of symbols. It follows middle-aged Rahmat as he sails the pearly salt water of Lake Urmia in northwestern Iran on a mission to collect the tears of heartbroken inhabitants of the surrounding islands into a tiny pitcher. While going about this task, he remains a silent, nonjudgmental witness to the absurd havoc wreaked by the powers that be.
Like the waters he sails, the tears of the grief-stricken—stemming from the repression they experience daily—are expansive. At each inhospitable destination, a new tragedy awaits. As a metaphor for the Iranian government’s crackdown on dissident artistic expression, Rasoulof knows whereof he speaks: he has himself been imprisoned by its authorities, to international outcry. Winner, Best International Feature, Denver Film Festival.
DIRECTOR: Mohammad Rasoulof
Producer: Mohammad Rasoulof
Editor: Jafar Panahi
Screenwriter: Mohammad Rasoulof
Cinematographer: Ebrahim Ghafouri
Music: Mohammad Reza Darvishi
Principal Cast: Hasan Pourshirazi, Younes Ghazali, Mohammad Rabbani, Mohammad Shirvani
Filmography: Head Wind (Doc) (2008), Iron Island (2005), Gagooman (2002)
Print Source: Global Film Initiative - www.globalfilm.org