Synopsis
This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves.
Facts
Setting
Iran
Production
Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults
Original language
Persian
Trailer
Stills
Festival History
- Budapest Film Festival 2024
- Couch Film Festival 2020
- Berlin International Film Festival 2017 generic
- International Film Festival Rotterdam 1997 generic
- Locarno International Film Festival 1990 generic
- Toronto International Film Festival 1990 generic
