ON RED GROUND

By Arash ANEESSEE

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Experimental - Completed 2024

On the brink of leaving her husband and her homeland, Iran, a woman struggles to make her first feature
film. Unaware of an actress's father's vehement opposition to her acting career, the woman casts her in
the main role of her film. The film that is about an actress being killed by her father.

    • Year of production
    • 2024
    • Genres
    • Experimental, Second film, Drama
    • Countries
    • IRAN
    • Languages
    • PERSIAN
    • Budget
    • 0.3 - 0.6 M$
    • Duration
    • 113 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Arash ANEESSEE
    • Producer(s)
    • Berouz NESHAN
    • Synopsis
    • On the eve of separation from Arash and hesitating between staying in Iran and leaving there, Sogand's
      come to one of the southern cities of the country to make her first feature film, which is about an actress
      being killed by her father. At the same time, an exhibition of the works of the Tehran Museum of
      Contemporary Art has been held i n the complex where the group resides, and Ali, who is one of the
      attendants of the exhibition, plans to steal “Mural On Indian Red Ground” by Jackson Pollock. In the
      preproduction process, Sogand chooses Zahra, who is a southern girl, instead of Negar, who was
      introduced to the group by Arash, to play the main role of the film and starts rehearsing with her,
      regardless of Arash's strong opposition. In the meantime, Negar, who sees herself as the biggest victim of
      the relationship between Sogand and Arash, realizes that Zahra ran away from home due to her father's
      disapproval of acting and plans to leave the country. Negar, who is not used to playing the victim, gets
      Zahra's father's number at any price. Filming begins. Sogand has focused on his work, unaware of Ali,
      who is planning to steal Pollock's painting by disrupting the filming and taking advantage of the crowd,
      and Zahra's father, who is on his way to get her