THE WITNESS (SHAHED)

A film by Nader Saeivar
Drama  |  100 min  |  DE, AT

SYNOPSIS
AWARDS & NOMINATIONS
AWARDS & NOMINATIONS
Tarlan (65) thinks that she witnessed the murder of her stepdaughter Rana by her husband, who is an important government figure. When the police refuses to investigate, Tarlan decides to take things into her own hands and put herself and her family in danger.
SYNOPSIS
SYNOPSIS
WORLD SALES
WORLD SALES
WORLD SALES
DISTRIBUTION
DISTRIBUTION
DISTRIBUTION
FESTIVALS
AWARDS & NOMINATIONS
AWARDS & NOMINATIONS

Venice International Film Festival 2024 - Orizzonti Extra
World Premiere

 

VENICE INT. FILM CRITCS' WEEK 2022
IWOLDERFULL Grand Prize
Silver Ship for the best One True Pairing assigned to a couple of characters

Nominated for Queer Lion


FESTIVALS

VENICE INT. FILM CRITICS' WEEK 2022
World Premiere

ZURICH FILM FESTIVAL 2022
Fokus Competition

REYKJAVIK INT. FILM FESTIVAL 2022
New Visions Competition

 

 

VENICE INT. FILM CRITCS' WEEK 2022
IWOLDERFULL Grand Prize
Silver Ship for the best One True Pairing assigned to a couple of characters

Nominated for Queer Lion


FESTIVALS

VENICE INT. FILM CRITICS' WEEK 2022
World Premiere

ZURICH FILM FESTIVAL 2022
Fokus Competition

REYKJAVIK INT. FILM FESTIVAL 2022
New Visions Competition

 

 




INFO

RUNNING TIME – 100 minutes
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE – Farsi
LOCATIONS – Iran
SUBTITLES – German, English, tba

SCREENING FORMAT – DCP DCI Flat
SOUND FORMAT – 5.1
ASPECT RATIO – 1:1,85 2K
FRAMES/SEC – 24

CREW

DIRECTOR                   
Nader Saeivar

SCREENPLAY
Jafar Panahi & Nader Saeivar

EDITING
Jafar Panahi

CINEMATOGRAPHY                   
Rozbeh Raeigha

PRODUCTION DESIGN               
Leila Naghdi Pari

COSTUME DESIGN                       
Leila Naghdi Pari

SOUND                                             
Abdolreza Heydari, Iman Bazyar

MUSIC
Karwan Marouf

PRODUCERS
Said Nur Akkuş, Silvana Santamaria, Arash T. Riahi, Sabine Gruber

CO-PRODUCERS                                    
Nader Saeivar, Emre Oskay, Timur Savci, Seyda Akkuş

DIRECTOR & SCREENPLAY                     
Arman T. Riahi

CINEMATOGRAPHY                   
Mario Minichmayr

PRODUCTION DESIGN               
Martin Reiter

SOUND                                             
Atanas Tcholakov

EDITING                                                        
Karina Ressler

ADDITIONAL EDITING
Joana Scrinzi

SCORE                                             
Karwan Marouf

COSTUME DESIGN                       
Monika Buttinger

MAKE-UP                                       
Birgit Beranek

CASTING                                                       
Nicole Schmied

PRODUCTION MANAGER                        
Christine Schwarzinger

PRODUCER                                    
Arash T. Riahi & Karin C. Berger

CAST

Maryam Boubani
Nader Naderpour
Ghazal Shojaei
Abbas Imani
Hana Kamkar

 

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