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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.

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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

Genre

Woman Director Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Gholam Films

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Aimimage Productions

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

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