The Fifth Season

Fasl-e panjom

France, Iran

1997

80 Min

Color

1.66:1

Persian

Currently 2.3/5 Stars.
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CAST Roya Nonahali, Ali Sarkhani, Parvis Pourhosseini, Ghorban Nadjafi, Golab Adineh

MUSIC Jamshid Pouratai, Jalal Zolfonoon

The fight for power in an isolated Iranian village. Two families have been enemies for so long they cannot even remember why. The only hope for peace between the feuding families is lost when an arranged marriage agreement is broken. Some days later, the groom, Karamat, returns with a brand new minibus. But a fierce competition for passengers break out when the bride, Mehrbanou, decides to do the same… —IMDb

Director

Rafi Pitts

Rafi Pitts (born 1967 in Mashad, Iran) is an internationally acclaimed Iranian film director.

Rafi spent his childhood in Tehran, where he lived in a basement flat underneath a post-production studio. He describes himself as having been a ‘very bad’ child actor, starting in films at the age of eight. He came to England (his father is English) in 1981 during the Iran Iraq war. He graduated in 1991 from Harrow College – Polytechnic of Central London with a BA (Hons) degree in Film and Photography. His first short film, In Exile (1991) was presented the same year at the London International Film Festival. In the 90’s Pitts moved to Paris and worked on films by Leos Carax, Jacques Doillon and Jean-Luc Godard.

Educated in France and England, Rafi Pitts belongs to the new wave of Iranian cinema, which received numerous prestigious prizes in the international festival circuit.

In 1996 he had the opportunity to film in Iran and describes himself as having been the first… read more