OPENING FILM: FERRARI
فراری

TIFF Bell Lightbox (Cinema 2) — Friday, November 17, 7:30PM (SOLD OUT)

Ferrari

(Actor Mohsen Tanabandeh will present at this screening.)

Director: Alireza Davoudnejad
Screenwriter: Kambuzia Partovi
Producers: Jahangir Kosari, Majid Modarresi

Cast: Mohsen Tanabandeh, Tarlan Parvaneh, Sima Tirandaz, Siamak Safari, Reza Davoudnejad

Year of Production: 2017
Running Time: 90 mins
Language: Persian with English Subtitles
Section: Competition

Veteran director Alireza Davoudnejad returns to tell another coming-of-age story, this time of a young girl from the provinces who travels to Tehran in search of her favourite car, Ferrari. (The name Ferrari is a pun on the Persian word for "runaway".) As expected of the filmmaker, Ferrari is another frank confrontation with the class struggles and generational differences in contemporary Iran. Mohsen Tanabandeh's terrific performance in the film won him the best actor prize from this year's Farj Film Festival.