the turtle
by Fatemeh Fereydoun
short film / Drama
When someone is at the edge of critical decision making, meanwhile everything is going to be worse.
Synopsis
In the middle of the protests in Tehran, Saba is going to leave Iran to reach his mother abroad. The relationship between Saba and a girl makes everything complicated.
the turtle
by Fatemeh Fereydoun
short film / Drama
When someone is at the edge of critical decision making, meanwhile everything is going to be worse.
Synopsis
In the middle of the protests in Tehran, Saba is going to leave Iran to reach his mother abroad. The relationship between Saba and a girl makes everything complicated.
THE TURTLE
( Lakposht )
Iran – United Arab Emirates, 2024 / 15′
a film by
Fatemeh Fereydoun
with
Hamid Pour-Azari
Pavan Afsar
Nahal Dashti
Omid Shahmoradi
Navid Layeghi Moghaddam
Screenplay | Fatemeh Fereydoun |
Director of Photography | Said Barati |
Production Design | Alipooya Ghasemi |
Costume Design | Sara Mojdeh |
Make-up | Safoura Saffari |
Editor | Shahin Sepehri |
Composer | Ehsan Padeganeh |
Sound | Hadi Manavipour |
Color | Farbod Jalali |
Sound Editing | Amin Sharifi |
Producer | Pooyan Sedghi Fateme Fereydoun |
Production | FateArt Vodio Pictures |
Distribution | Alpha Film |
The director
Fatemeh Fereydoun
Biofilmography
Fatemeh Fereydoun, born in February 1992, started her artistic career in 2008 by studying theater at Soreh High School. She then continued her studies in theater at the University of Tehran and obtained a master’s degree in directing. She has directed seven theater productions (including “Satin’s Island,” “The Last Play,” ”Night Mother”) and three films in her directorial career: “The Turtle,” “Camion,” and “Keyras”. She taught at the best private theater institute in Iran for four years and then continued teaching in theater and cinema.
Director statement
I just wanted to show a small example of a huge amount of emotions that everyone who should immigrate from their homeland should deny and swallow. We can not live freely in our own country, and the system is trying to keep us week in any aspect, so everyone who is concerned with thrown life should think about Iran, as same as it is in real world. And immigration to another country is always challenging. It doesn’t matter when you immigrate or where is you destination’ you should go through a port, a kind of gate that is difficult to pass through. Because people can never be completely cut off from their homeland, family and friends, and on the other hand, the future in which we can progress in our homeland is inconceivable to us, Iranian. This uncertainty forms the core of the film along with other elements like tension. This tension is something that all the Iranian who don’t agree the regime are experiencing after Mahsa Amini protest.
I wanted to share with the Turtle audience is an experience of constant tension and doubt. The feeling we go through and face on a daily basis in this geography, and humans in other parts of the world are less encountered with. When I speak about tension and doubt I mean when you leave your home it is nor guaranteed that you come back safe. The dusk in the final scene of the film and the twilight that is seen at the beginning as well show the ambiguity of the conditions and the decision of the characters of the film in relation to this dilemma.
I wanted to share with the Turtle audience is an experience of constant tension and doubt. The feeling we go through and face on a daily basis in this geography, and humans in other parts of the world are less encountered with. When I speak about tension and doubt I mean when you leave your home it is nor guaranteed that you come back safe. The dusk in the final scene of the film and the twilight that is seen at the beginning as well show the ambiguity of the conditions and the decision of the characters of the film in relation to this dilemma.