Until Tomorrow
Ali Asgari | Iran, France, Qatar | 2022 | 85'
In collaboration with
Screenings
Sat 11 May H 20:30
Sat 11 May H 20:30
With the artistic directors of FESCAAAL and MiWY, the two official juries, and Ali Asgari (director of Until Tomorrow and member of the Feature Film Competition Jury).
Section
Original title
Ta farda
Synopsis
Fereshteh studies and works in a printer’s in Tehran. What her parents do not know is that she also has an illegitimate daughter of two months. When her father and mother announce a surprise visit, Fereshteh must quickly hide her baby. With the help of her friend Atefeh, she throws herself into an odyssey through the city that will turn out to be full of obstacles.
Cast
Sadaf Asgari, Ghazal Shojaei, Babak Karimi, Amireza Ranjabaran
Films Distribution
Cineclub Internazionale
Production
Silk Road Productions
Editing
Alireza Khatami, Ali Asgari
Cinematography
Roozbhe Rayga
Editing
Ehsan Vaseghi
Language
Persian
Subtitles
Italian
Premiere
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Main awards
Best Film Amore and Psiche Award (MedFilm Festival, 2022), Special Mention (Zurich Film Festival, 2022)
Biography
Ali Asgari was born in Tehran, Iran. He studied cinema in Italy. Two of his short films, More Than Two Hours (2013) and The Silence(2016), were in competition at Cannes Film Festival and The Baby premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2014. Disappearance, his first feature film, was selected at Venice 2017. In 2022 Until Tomorrow was at the Berlinale and in 2023 Terrestrial Verses, co-directed with Alireza Khatami, was at Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section.
Filmography
2023 - My Name is Aseman, sf
2023 - Until Tomorrow, ff
2023 - Terrestrial Verses, ff
2020 - Pilgrims, sf
2018 - Delay, sf
2017 - Disappearence, ff
2016 - The Silence, sf
2015 - The Pain, sf
2014 - The Baby, sf
2013 - More Than Two Hours, sf