Tinar
Iran / 2009 / 72 min / Colour
Italian premiere
A child sings sweetly as he holds a little calf next to him, kisses it and caresses its head. Four seasons in the life of a young Galesh, as the shepherds who live in the mountains and forests of northern Iran are called. Little Ghasem, eleven years old, is a shepherd, because this is his father’s will. This means that for most of his time during the year he must remain alone in the forest, with only the company of a few animals. He plays with them as he would with his brothers, whom he rarely sees. His father remarried after the death of his mother, and now lives with his new family in the city, leaving Ghasem and his elder brother in the mountains with the animals, as though they were bad memories of an earlier life. When summer turns to fall, Ghasem’s contact with the world becomes even less fre- quent, and so he sings, comforting himself with the sound of his own voice. In winter, while it snows outside, as he warms his hands he whispers that he would like to have a mother, someone to take care of him because, after all, he is only a child.
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Language Gilaki Subject Mahdi Moniri Screenplay Mahdi Moniri Cinematography Seyed Hasan Seyedi Parishan Sound Saleh Norooz Nezhad Editing Mohammad Moeen Karimoddini Music Esmaeel Jafari Jamnani Producer Mahdi Moniri Production company Visual Media Institute
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