Without Her (2022 film)
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| Directed by | Arian Vazirdaftari |
| Written by | Arian Vazirdaftari |
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| Cinematography | Alireza Barazandeh |
| Edited by | Mehdi Sadi |
| Music by | Bamdad Afshar |
Production company | Fadak Film |
| Distributed by | Picture Tree International |
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| Country | Iran |
| Language | Persian |
Without Her (Persian: بی رویا, romanized: Bi Roya, lit. Without Roya[a]) is a 2022 Iranian drama mystery thriller film directed and written by Arian Vazirdaftari and produced by Houman Seyyedi and Saeed Sadi. The film screened for the first time at the 40th Fajr Film Festival where it won the Crystal Simorgh for Best Actress for Tannaz Tabatabaei and earned 2 other nominations, one of which was for Shadi Karamroudi as the best actress in the supporting role and the other one for the director Arian Vazirdaftari as the Best Debut Film prize nominee.[1]
Without Her screened at the 79th Venice International Film Festival in the Horizons Extra section on September 6, 2022.
Premise[edit]
Roya meets a girl named Ziba who has forgotten all of her past and she wants to help Ziba to find her family but after some days Roya starts to forget things about herself.
Cast[edit]
- Tannaz Tabatabaei as Roya
- Shadi Karamroudi as Ziba
- Saber Abar as Babak
- Farank Kalantar
- Reza DavoudNejad
- Maedeh Tahmasebi
- Mojtaba Fallahi
- Nahal Dashti
- Mehri Al Agha
- Milad Yazdani
- Tiam Kermanian[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
Reception[edit]
Critical response[edit]
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The film was selected among one of The 10 best Middle Eastern and North African films of 2022 by the Middle East Eye website.[9] Moreover, the Australian critic Shane Danielsen called it "a smart, expertly crafted psychodrama" in his Venice Film Festival review in The Monthly, which reminds you of those great Eastern European films of the ’60s and ’70s, from people such as Hungary’s Miklós Jancsó and Czechoslovakia’s Jan Němec, using metaphor and allusion to condemn the communist regimes under which their makers lived and worked.[10][11]
Accolades[edit]
| Year | Award | Category | Recipient | Result | Ref. |
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| 2022 | Fajr Film Festival | Best Actress | Tannaz Tabatabaei | Won | [12][13] |
| Best Supporting Actress | Shadi Karamroudi | Nominated | |||
| Best First Look Film | Arian Vazirdaftari | Nominated |
Notes[edit]
- ^ Roya, means Dream in Persian.
References[edit]
- ^ "40th Fajr Film Festival announces nominations". The Documentary and Experimental Film Center (in Persian). 2022-02-11. Retrieved 2023-02-13.
- ^ "WITHOUT HER - Picture Tree". www.picturetree-international.com. Retrieved 2022-08-21.
- ^ "پایان مراحل فنی فیلم سینمایی "بی‌رویا"". خبرگزاری مهر | اخبار ایران و جهان | Mehr News Agency (in Persian). 2022-01-11. Retrieved 2022-08-21.
- ^ "پایان مراحل فنی فیلم سینمایی "بی رویا"". فیلم‌نیوز (in Persian). 2022-01-11. Retrieved 2022-08-21.
- ^ Barraclough, Leo (2022-01-31). "Iranian Genre Crossover Film 'Without Her' Acquired By Picture Tree Intl., Debuts Trailer (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 2022-08-21.
- ^ "فیلمبرداری "بی‌رویا" به پایان رسید/ معرفی گروه بازیگران | پایگاه خبری صبا". پایگاه خبری صبا – آخرین اخبار فرهنگ و هنر | سینما و تلویزیون (in Persian). 2021-03-11. Retrieved 2022-08-21.
- ^ سینماتیکت, مجله (2022-02-11). "اعلام اسامی برندگان سیمرغ بلورین جشنواره فجر ۱۴۰۰". مجله سینماتیکت (in Persian). Retrieved 2022-08-21.
- ^ Ravindran, Nick Vivarelli,Manori; Vivarelli, Nick; Ravindran, Manori (2022-07-26). "Darren Aronofsky, Laura Poitras, Olivia Wilde, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Florian Zeller Take New Movies to Venice – Full Lineup". Variety. Retrieved 2022-08-21.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "The 10 best Middle Eastern and North African films of 2022". Middle East Eye. Retrieved 2023-02-13.
- ^ "12ft |". 12ft.io. Retrieved 2023-02-13.
- ^ "(The Monthly) Venice International Film Festival 2022 highlights - Picture Tree". www.picturetree-international.com. Retrieved 2023-02-13.
- ^ "نامزدهای سودای سیمرغ چهلمین جشنواره فیلم فجر معرفی شدند". جشنواره فیلم فجر (in Persian). Retrieved 2022-08-21.
- ^ "برگزیدگان چهلمین جشنواره فیلم فجر معرفی شدند". جشنواره فیلم فجر (in Persian). Archived from the original on 2022-05-31. Retrieved 2022-08-21.
External links[edit]
- Without Her at IMDb
