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THE ABSENT DIRECTOR

By Arvand DASHTARAY

ARTHOOD ENTERTAINMENT GMBH - as SALES All rights, World

Experimental - Completed 2021

A young theater company secretly rehearses Macbeth at their Director’s home, hoping for it to become their ticket out of Iran. Racing against time, they must deal with their director working remotely from Paris, their personal conflicts, and a tragedy that strikes under mysterious circumstances.

Festivals
& Awards

Busan IFF 2021

New currents

Philadelphia International Film Festival 2021

Sofia International Film Festival 2021

Pune International Film Festival 2021

Moscow International Film Festival 2022

Beijing International Film Festival 2022

Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2022

- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- Experimental, First film, Drama
- Countries
- IRAN
- Languages
- FARSI, ENGLISH
- Duration
- 86 mn
- Director(s)
- Arvand DASHTARAY
- Writer(s)
- Naghmeh SAMINI
- Cast
- Marene VAN HOLK, Arvand DASHTARAY, Azadeh MIRZAEI, Diba KHATAMI
- Producer(s)
- Hossein AKBARI (Virgule FPAC)
- Synopsis
- In one continuous take, the film follows the various members of a young Iranian theater company during their secret rehearsals of Macbeth at their Director’s home in Tehran, while he works with them remotely from Paris via video call. Their dream is to submit the play to the Edinburgh Theater Festival on time, but things get complicated when their personal conflicts escalate, and their hidden agendas come into light. The heated tensions reach their climax when a mysterious tragedy threatens to put their work into a complete halt. The complex layers of their reality are slowly unraveled as the film seamlessly fuses the past with the present, the fiction with the non-fiction, even crossing the bridge to reality with the actors performing as themselves.
  
  World Premiere: 2021 Busan International Film Festival (New Currents Competition)

THE ABSENT DIRECTOR

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