Iran/ Japan/ Germany 2002

Film type: Feature Film
Genre: Drama
Format: 35 mm. / 1:1.66
Length: 85 min
Color: Color
Sound: Mono
Language: Farsi
Subtitles: English

Director: Amir Shahab Razavian
Scriptwriters: Amir Shahab Razavian, Majid Eslami, Farzad Pourkhoshbakht
Directors of Photography: Morteza Pour Samadi
Editor: Parviz Shahbazi
Sound: Karim Kashani
Sound Editor and Mix: Parviz Abnar
Executive Producer: Saeed Razavian

Production's Companies :
Hilaj Film Productions (Iran)
Japan Broadcasting Corporation NHK (Japan)
Brave New Work Film Productions (Germany)

Cast: Behnaz Jafari, Hasan Moazeni, Reza Khamseh, Parviz Larijani, Mehran Rajabi, Mohammad Hajhoseini, Nazanin Farahani, Javad Khademhoseini, Rabea Madani &…

Seven a.m. at a junction a group of people are waiting for the red light. A young policeman who is in charge of changing the traffic lights prolongs the time of the walkers’ red light in order to see his beloved girl, more. The girl is an actress. After a while he expresses his love to the girl, but there is a wide distance between them.
In an Addiction Diagnosis Laboratory two pseudo-dictator old men take the urine samples of the customers (men). They are going to retire soon and they have always been afraid of the inspectors. Today without their knowledge an inspector has come to the lab.

A motorist who gives ride to passengers is used to relating the words of the previous passengers to the next ones in an incomplete and incorrect manner. Among his passengers there is an old man who makes trouble for the motorist and…

An Afghan welder is faced with a girl who escapes a man. The girl and the Afghan tell lies about their lives. The young man is gradually interested in the girl but the girl escapes him too.

The young police commits suicide, but he is rescued. The actress goes to the hospital and talks to him. But still there is a great gap between them. The girl goes out of the hospital and gets to the traffic red light at 7:00 a.m., the light is working automatically and all those people that we have seen in the film are waiting at the junction. By turning of the light into green they all start walking

Festivals and Awards:

Screened at the 21st Fajr Film Festival, Tehran, Iran. February 1-10, 2003.
Screened at the 27th Cairo International Film Festival, Egypt. October 7-17, 2003.
Screened at the 14th Festival of Iranian Films at the Gene Siskel Film Centre of Chicago, USA. October 4- November 2, 2003.
Screened at the 48th Valladolid International Film festival, Spain. October 24- November 1, 2003.
Screened at the 4th Rome's Asian Film Festival, Italy. November 8-16, 2003.
Screened at the 9th Kolkata Film Festival, India. November 10-17, 2003.
Screened at the 6th Mumbai International Film Festival, India. November 20-27, 2003.
Screened at the 5th SUNDANCE NHK Asian Film Festival, Japan. December 13-21, 2003.
Screened at the 7th Dhaka International Film Festival, Bangladesh. January 15-23, 2004.
Awarded the Audience Special Prize.
Screened at the 14th Festival of Iranian Films at UCLA, USA. January 16- February 8, 2004.
Screened at the 8th Festival of Iranian Films at the Asia Art Museum of Freer Gallery at Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA. January 9- February 15, 2004.
Screened at the 33rd International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Netherlands. January 21- February 1, 2004.
Screened at the 25th Film festival Max Ophuls Pries. Saarbrucken, Germany. January 26 - February 01, 2004.
Screened at Festival of Iranian Films (Images of Women: New Iranian Cinema) at the German Film Museum, Frankfurt, Germany. March 5-29, 2004.
Screened at the 17th Singapore International Film Festival, April 15- May 1, 2004.
Screened at the 1st Assilah South-South Film Festival Morocco. July 23 - 29, 2004.
Awarded the best actress Prize
Screened at the Festival of Film From the South, Oslo, Norway. October 7-17, 2004.
Screened at the 4th Tiburon International Film Festival, USA. March 10-18, 2005.