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The Dark Room (2018 film)

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The Dark Room
Directed byRouhollah Hejazi
Written byRouhollah Hejazi
Produced byRouhollah Hejazi
Starring
Edited byReza Shahbazi
Music byKaren Homayounfar
Release date
  • February 3, 2018 (2018-02-03) (Fajr Film Festival)
Running time
101 minutes
CountryIran
LanguagePersian

The Dark Room (Persian: اتاق تاریک) is a 2018 Iranian drama directed, written and produced by Rouhollah Hejazi.

The subject of this film is the persecution and rape of children in Iran.

Hejazi went to the thirty-sixth Fajr Film Festival with The Dark Room three years after his latest release, Death of the Fish.

It won Best Film at the Hanoi International Film Festival and at the Film Festival of Kerala in 2018. It was the only representative of Iran at the Belgrade Film Festival in 2019.

Plot

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Farhad and Haleh and their four-years-old son Amir, move into a new housing complex. One day, Amir gets lost in the desert in front of the complex. His parents find him, but Amir seems upset and Farhad suspects that someone has abused his son.[1]

Cast

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Accolades

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Award / Film Festival Category Recipient(s) Result
International Film Festival of Kerala Suvarna Chakoram (Best Film) The Dark Room Won[2]
Hanoi International Film Festival Best Film The Dark Room Won
Hanoi International Film Festival The Best Actor Saed Soheili Nominated
Belgrade Film Festival Best Film The Dark Room Nominated

References

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  1. ^ admin. "The Dark Room – 23rd International Film Festival of Kerala".
  2. ^ Kerala, 23rd International Film Festival of. "23rd International Film Festival of Kerala – IFFK2018 at Thiruvananthapuram".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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