Immortality
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Directed byMehdi Fard Ghaderi
Written byMehdi Fard Ghaderi
Produced byJavad Norouzbeigi
CinematographyAmin Jafari
Running time
145 minutes
CountryIran

Immortality (Persian: جاودانگی - Javdanegi) is a 2016 Iranian experimental drama film directed by Mehdi Fard Ghaderi.[1] This movie was recorded entirely on the train. All of the footage takes place on a rainy night using a 145-minute Steadicam one-shot sequence. Immortality was filmed in fourteen nights, and the film was shot twelve times until the end. The final film is one of those twelve takes.[2]

Plot

All the events of this movie take place on a rainy night on a train and it tells the story of the lives of six families in different train carriages, which is narrated with time shifts.

An old man is informed that he has only three more days to live, he is on a train to go to his cottage and be there when he dies. Slowly his dreams begin.[3]

Cast

Reception

First premiere Immortality was at the "Rome" Film Festival 2016 in Italy.[5][6] Italian critics wrote positive reviews about the film.[7][8][9] Then this film was then screened at the festival of Munich,[10] Germany and Transylvania, Romania.[11][12][13]

Immortality was screened in forty international festivals and received several international festivals from America and Italy.[14]

References

  1. ↑ "Festival Scope". pro.festivalscope.com. Archived from the original on 2022-08-03. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
  2. ↑ ""Immortality" Ready for Screening | Art and Experience Cinema". www.aecinema.org. Archived from the original on 2021-08-05. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
  3. ↑ Javdanegi (2016), archived from the original on 2022-08-03, retrieved 2022-08-03
  4. ↑ "Roma FF11 - Immortality: recensione del film di Mehdi Fard Ghaderi". Cinematographe.it (in Italian). 2016-10-22. Archived from the original on 2022-08-03. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
  5. ↑ "Mehdi Fard Ghaderi Photos and Premium High Res Pictures - Getty Images". www.gettyimages.ie. Archived from the original on 2022-08-03. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
  6. ↑ Limited, Alamy. "Mehdi Fard Ghaderi and Ana Nemati attending the premiere of 'Javdanegi' during the 11th Rome Film Festival at Auditorium Parco Della Musica in Rome, Italy. Featuring: Mehdi Fard Ghaderi, Ana Nemati Where: Rome, Lazio, Italy When: 21 Oct 2016 Credit: IPA Stock Photo - Alamy". www.alamy.com. Archived from the original on 2022-08-03. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
  7. ↑ Masciullo, Pietro (2016-10-21). "#RomaFF11 - Immortality, di Mehdi Fard Ghaderi". SentieriSelvaggi (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2022-08-03. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
  8. ↑ "Immortality, il film iraniano di Mehdi Fard Ghaderi". www.artefair.it (in Italian). 2016-10-23. Archived from the original on 2021-06-18. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
  9. ↑ "Iran's 'Immortality' warmly received by Italian audience". Mehr News Agency. 2016-10-23. Archived from the original on 2022-02-26. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
  10. ↑ "Iran films to be screened at German festival". ifilm-آیفیلم. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
  11. ↑ "Mehdi Fard Ghaderi - Immortality #TIFF2017". Fred English Channel. 2017-06-08. Archived from the original on 2020-11-27. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
  12. ↑ "IMMORTALITY". tiff.ro. Archived from the original on 2022-02-26. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
  13. ↑ "'Immortality' to go on screen in Romania". Archived from the original on 2022-08-03. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
  14. ↑ "Iranian movie awarded in US Buffalo Dreams Film Festival". en. Young Journalists Club | Latest news of Iran and world. 2017-11-07. Archived from the original on 2022-08-03. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
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