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Original name: Roxana
English name: Roxana
Year: 2023
Run time: 120 minutes
Language: Farsi
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour
Country: Iran
Director: Parviz Shahbazi
Producer: Massoud Radaie
Cast: Yasna Pourtahmasb, Mahsa Akbarabadi, Maedeh Tahmasbi, Behrang Alavi, Rambod Motalebi
Screenplay: Parviz Shahbazi
Cinematographer: Pouya Shahbazi
Editor: Parviz Shahbazi
Sound Designer: Alireza Alavian
Music Composer: Sepehr Sepasgozar & Rouzbeh Mirheydari
Costume Designer: Chakameh Mirkhanji
Production Designer: Amir-Hossein Haddad
Production Company: Massoud Radaie
World Sales: Iranian Independents
Born in 1962 in Iran, Parviz Shahbazi is a filmmaking graduate of the Tehran Cinema College. After editing several films and directing 12 shorts he made his first feature, Traveler from the South, in 1997. This debut feature brought Shahbazi worldwide recognition and several awards. His second feature, Whispers (2000) has likewise won much international acclaim. In 2002 his third film, Deep Breath, was selected for the Directors’ Fortnight section of the Cannes IFF, to great critical acclaim. Karat 14, made in 2007, and Trapped, 2013, are Shahbazi’s fourth and fifth features. Malaria, his sixth movie, was selected for the 2016 Venice Film Festival and the same year won the Grand Prix at the Warsaw IFF.
Fred is unemployed and just gambling. He lives with his sick mother. He meets Roxana who is filming the wedding ceremonies and then he becomes her assistant. In their first work trip to the north of Iran, Roxana gets involved in a serious problem but Fred somehow helps and saves her, however, there are some more serious problems that Fred will have nothing to do with.
