Pari

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Babak, an Iranian student in Greece, doesn’t show up to welcome his visiting parents at the Athens airport. Pari and her older husband, both devout Muslims abroad for the first time, are ill-prepared to search for their son in an intimidating and alien environment. All their attempts to find a clue that might lead them to him prove to be in vain and they soon reach a dead end. But Pari can’t give up looking for him, even when returning to Iran seems like her only choice.
Following the steps of her rebellious son in the darkest corners of the city, she will exhaust her inner strength to achieve more than a mother’s search for her missing son.

  • 2020, Berlin IFF Panorama
YEAR:
2020
DIRECTOR(S):
Siamak Etemadi
WRITER(S):
Siamak Etemadi
PRODUCER(S):
Konstantinos Kontovrakis, Giorgos Karnavas
CAST:
Melika Foroutan, Shahbaz Noshir, Sofia Kokkali, Argyris Padazaras, Lena Kitsopoulou, Dimitris Xanthopoulos, Kimonas Kouris
CINEMATOGRAPHER:
Claudio Bolivar
PRODUCTION DESIGNER:
Elena Vardava
EDITOR:
Panos Voutsaras
MUSIC:
Avia
RUNTIME:

111 minutes

COUNTRY:

Greece, France, Netherlands, Belgium

premiere:

Los Angeles

category:

About the director

Siamak Etemadi was born in Tehran and moved to Athens in 1995. He studied Cinema and worked extensively as assistant director in various films, TV series and documentaries. His short film Cavo d’Oro premiered at Locarno Film Festival in competition in 2012. Pari is his first feature film.