Rhino Season

Rhino Season
Directed by Bahman Ghobadi
Produced by Bahman Ghobadi
Written by Bahman Ghobadi
Starring Monica Bellucci
Beren Saat
Behrouz Vossoughi
Belçim Bilgin
Yılmaz Erdoğan
Arash Labaf
Caner Cindoruk
Ali Pourtash
Music by Keyhan Kalhor
Cinematography Touraj Aslani
Edited by Valerie Loiseleux
Release dates
  • September 26, 2012 (Donostia-San Sebastián
    International Film Festival)
Running time
 88 minutes
Country Iran
Turkey[1][2]
Language Persian

Rhino Season (Kurdish: وەرزی کەرگەدەن ، Persian: فصل کرگدن‎) is a 2012 Iranian movie by Mij Film[3] largely filmed in Turkey[1][2] and directed by Bahman Ghobadi.[4]

The film has been praised for its cinematography. It is one of the three films produced by Iranian filmmakers outside of Iran, the others being Like Someone in Love by Kiarostami and The Gardener by Makhmalbaf.

It is described as "a love story in context of the political changes from before the Iranian revolution to the present".

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Chicago International Film Festival - films & schedule - Rhino Season". Chicago International Film Festival. Retrieved March 25, 2013.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "7th AFA Nominees and Winners". Asian Film Awards. Retrieved March 25, 2013.
  3. ↑ http://www.mijfilm.com/about-mij-film
  4. ↑ "Rhino Season film 'rebirth for exiled Iran director'". BBC News. 13 September 2012.

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