Project Detail

Gholam

Synopsis

Set in London, he story of an enigmatic Iranian cab driver, who works at night and doesn’t like to talk about his past.
He has two jobs, yet seems not to be interested in the money. He eats at his uncle’s café every day, yet is fully aware of being betrayed by him. He agrees to his mother’s arrangements for his return, yet has no intention of going back. We learn that he was once a war hero, yet he disappeared from the battlefield without a trace.
A man with no past, no future, no ‘conviction’, he still gets involved in the conflict of a total stranger and carries it through to the very end.

Details

Year
2017
Type of project
Features
Running time
95 mins
Format
6k Digital
Director
Mitra Tabrizian 1st Feature
Producer
Zadoc Nava
Executive Producer
Tom Goddard, Ali Pour, Mitra Tabrizian, Cyrus Massoudi, Ahmad Ahmadzadeh, Omid Danialzade
Editor
Brand Thumin
Screenwriter
Mitra Tabrizian (writer), Cyrus Massoudi (co-writer)
Director of Photography
Dewald Aukema
Production Designer
Stéphane Collonge
Sound
Xan Marquez Caneda, Dario Swade, Rich Simpson
Principal cast
Shahab Hosseini, Behrouz Behnejad, Nasser Memarzia, Corinne Skinner-Carter

Categories

Production Status

Production Company

Aimimage Productions

Atif Ghani
22 and 24 St Pancras Way
London
NW1 0NT

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