85 min | Surround 5.1 | Color | 2021 | Iran
Festivals and Awards
- 43rd Moscow International Film Festival, 22 – 29 April 2021, Moscow – Russia (Main Competition, winner of Best Actor Award)
- 50th Rotterdam Int’l Film Festival, 2 – 6 June 2021, Rotterdam – Holland (Bright Future)
- 62nd Cine Rencontres de Prades Film Festival, 17th – 23rd July 2021, Prades – France
- 66th Valladolid Int’l Film Festival, 23rd – 30th October 2021, Valladolid – Spain (Meeting Point Competition Section)
- 27th Minsk Int’l Film Festival Listapad, 20th – 26th November 2021, Minsk – Belarus (Winner of Best Film Award in Cinema of the Young Competition Section)
- National Museum of Asian Art – Smithsonian Institution, 14th – 30th January 2022, Washington DC – Maryland and Virginia, USA
- 26th Kerala Int’l Film Festival, March 18th – 25th 2022, Kerala – India (World Cinema)
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Cast and Crew
THE SON
(Pesar)- Writer and Director: Noushin Meraji
- Director of Photography: Ali Shourvarzi
- Editor: Ramin Najafi
- Music: Arman Meraji
- Sound Designer: Saman Shahamat
- Sound Recorder: Amin Jafari
- Cast: Soheil Ghannadan (Son), Nahid Haddadi (mother), Donya Heydari (Golnoush), Atabak Naderi (security), Mojtaba Fallahi (brother)
- Producer: Mehdi Fard Ghaderi
- Production Company: Fard Pictures
Synopsis
Forty-year-old Farid lives with his mother. He is very vulnerable and escapes loneliness, but in the meantime tries to prove himself independent and supportive of his mother. However, her sudden death makes Farid frustrated. To escape from this unfamiliar situation, he clings to anyone he encounters outside home to make this loneliness bearable, but he does not know how to communicate and the situation gets worse each time.
Bio Filmography
Born in 1980 in Tonekabon – Iran, Noushin Meraji took a filmmaking course at Iranian Youth Cinema Association. She started making short films in 2004, some shown and awarded in national and international film festivals. THE SON is her first feature film.
Director’s Statement
Nowadays, cities are full of skyscrapers but at night, when the lights of each house is turned on what is most visible is the loneliness of the people. Humans who have not learned to say how much they need each other’s company and are not able to admit that they cannot live on their own. THE SON is the story of all the boys and girls who have not matured and will never be mature enough, due to their disability to express their needs even to their own parents.
