Mourning

DCP / HD - 2011 - Iran - 85 min - Color - Drama

Mourning

Original title: Soog

A film by Morteza Farshbaf

A quarrel breaks out between a couple at midnight. They are on a trip, visiting the woman’s sister, Sharareh and her husband, Kamran who live in a northern city. Their old quarrel gets so serious that the woman decides to leave there for their home in Tehran in that late hour of the night. Unable to stop her, the man also gets into the car. They do not bring along their son, Arshia who has been with them in this journey, and drive madly into the dark road without informing anyone… In the morning, Sharareh and Kamran get the bad news; something terrible has happened on the way last night. In a state of shock, Sharareh and Kamran depart for Tehran where they should face the disaster, with Arshia. On their road trip that takes a day from morning to dawn, they should get Arshia aware of the bad news in a way he does not get horrified. This complicated situation, along with the happenings waiting for them in their way, put these three characters in strange relationships with each other…

Original language: Persian
Produced by: Behnaz Beski

Festivals:
Busan IFF, Korea 2011 – New Currents Competition 2011
Rio International Film Festival, Brazil 2011
BFI London Film Festival, UK 2011
Mumbai International Film Festival, India 2011
Tokyo International Film Festival, Japan 2011
Seville European Film Festival, Spain 2011
London Iranian Film Festival, UK 2011
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Estonia 2011
Bengaluru International Film Festival, India 2011
Special screening at MoMA, USA January 2012
Göteborg International Film Festival, Sweden 2012
Middle Eastern Film Festival Edinburgh, UK 2012
Dublin International Film Festival, Ireland 2012
Discovery Zone - Luxembourg City Film Festival, Luxembourg 2012
Festival du Film Asiatique de Deauville, France 2012 – Official Competition
Cinema Novo Festival, Belgium 2012 - Official Competition
1st Film Harvest Intl Film Festival, India 2012
Vilnius International Film Festival KINO PAVASARIS, Lithuania 2012
Istanbul International Film Festival, Turkey 2012
Middle East Now Festival (Florence), Italy 2012
Showroom Sheffield (special EoF screenings)
International Independent Film Festival OFF CAMERA, Main Dramatic Competition, Poland 2012
Stockholm IFF Junior, Official Competition, Sweden 2012
Taipei Film Festival, Taiwan 2012
Golden Boll Film Festival, Turkey 2012
29th Jerusalem International Film Festival, Israel 2012
International Film Festival KINO PAVASARIS, Vilnius 2012
Seattle IFF, USA 2012 / Taipei Film Festival, 2012
Misr International Film Festival , Egypt 2012 – EoF partner
Balinale International Film Festival, Indonesia 2012
Iranian Film Festival of Australia, Australia 2012
Madrid Palestine FF, Spain 2012
Malatya Film Festival, Turkey 2012
Skopje Cinedays Festival 2014

Awards:
Best New Director award – Seville EFF 2011
NETPAC Jury Award - Tallinn PÖFF 2011
New Currents Award - Busan 2011
Fipresci Award - Busan 2011
Best Film & Critics Jury’s special mention – Deauville Asian Film Festival 2012, Supported by the ACID
Award for 'most inventive film' - Cinedays Festival in Macedonia 2014

Download the press kit
Download the flyer
Download the pictures
Download the subtitles