Asho
Jafar Najafi / Iran (Islamic Republic of) / 2019 / 30 min / Colour
Italian premiere
Asho is a very young Iranian shepherd, energetic and restless like the eagle, whose name he bears. His days are spent caring for the family's goat flock, with whom he shares a close and joyful relationship, that is attentive, playful and surprising intimate. However, the boy is also a passionate cinephile, which pushes him to see film after film on his battered tablet and to talk about cinema with anyone who will listen. As enthusiastic about Kiarostami as Tim Burton, Asho has very clear ideas: he has talent to burn and his future is in front of the camera, as an actor. The only obstacle to his dream is the arranged wedding to his cousin. The director follows the two children's skirmishes with participatory tenderness, photographed in a landscape of luminous beauty: a portrait of a rural Iran, still tied to the traditions imposed by religion, but in which the dream of a new lifestyle is also insinuating itself from the cracked screen of a smartphone.
Jafar Najafi
Jafar Najafi was born in 1986 in Iran and studied cinema at the Tehran University. Photographer and researcher, he started his career in documentary working as assistant and television director. With his second documentary, Asho, he is obtaining approval in many international festivals, including IDFA and DOK Leipzig.
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Subject Jafar NajafiScreenplay Jafar NajafiCinematography Ahmad BabadiSound Saeid BahramiEditing Huda Arshad RiahiMusic Amir ShahabiProduction company Maryam Naghibi
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