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Kapitan

 Captain

Original name: Kapitan
English name: Captain
Year: 2023
Run time: 90 minutes
Language: Farsi
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour
Country: Iran
Director: Mohammad Hamzei
Producer: Seyed Saber Emami
Cast: Pantea Panahiha, Pejman Bazeghi, Sepideh Eydi, Amir Hossein Bayat, Parham Gholamlou
Screenplay: Amir Mohammad Abdi
Cinematographer: Amin Jafari
Editor: Omid Mirzaei
Music Composer: Habib Khazaifar
Costume Designer: Melody Esmaeili
Production Designer: Hamed Aslani
World Sales: Farabi Cinema Foundation

Director’s Selected Filmography:

  • 2017 Azar

Director's Biography:

 Mohammad Hamzei

Born in Arak in 1979, Mohammad Hamzei is an Iranian director and actor. He has a bachelor's degree in cinema. He started his professional career in the field of cinema by working as directors’ assistant and has appeared in more than thirty different movies and TV series with filmmakers such as Iraj Karimi, Farzad Motaman, Mohammad Hossein Latifi, Hojat Qasemzadeh. In his artistic career, Hamzei has directed more than twenty short, half-length and television films including As Always, Near or Far, According to a Habit – and other video works. He has won several awards from domestic festivals such as Tehran Short Film Festival. In 2017, Hamzei directed his debut feature film, Azar.

Synopsis:

In the cancer department of the children's hospital, two boys named Isa and Ali, who dream of becoming football players, plan to achieve their dreams before Ali’s last serious operation. It should be away from the eyes of doctors and nurses.