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International Perspective

Absence

Absence

Iran, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic 2021 Fiction Cor 100 min.

Rouzbeh arrives in Prague, far away from his troubled family life in Tehran, and immerses himself in a research into his father’s past as a communist expatriate in Czechoslovakia. Upon visiting the flat where his father lived 50 years ago, he is stopped by a policewoman who’s investigating a recent accident involving the current flat’s resident: his name was Vladimir and he has fallen out of the flat’s window. When he finds out that Vladimir’s father was also an Iranian, with the very same name as his own father, Rouzbeh is suspicious of the family history he thought he knew.

Iran Czech Republic Slovak Republic family memory exil family drama communism existential crisis

direção

Ali Mosaffa

roteiro

Ali Mosaffa

fotografia

Massoud Salami

elenco

Ali Mosaffa, Zuzana Stivínová, Magdalena Borová, Petra Nesvačilová, Zuzana Kronerová, Antonie Formanová, Klára Melíšková, Leila Hatami

produtor

Ali Mosaffa, Jordi Niubó, Filip Remunda, Silvia Panáková, Eric Panák

produzido por

Ali Mosaffa Productions, Arina, Hypermarket Film

world sales

Iranian Independents

contato

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