Iron Island
Squatters live on a mothballed oil tanker in the Persian Gulf. The children attend a school on board; men harvest scrap metal and old oil in the hull; women keep house and raise children and Captain Nemat runs it all with an iron hand. We follow a lad who rescues fish trapped in the hull, an old man who stares at the sun, the idealistic teacher, and Ahmad, the Captain's assistant who has fallen in love with a young woman whose father wants to marry her to someone of means. What future has this sinking city?
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Mohammad Rasoulof Director · Mohammadreza Aligholi Composer Reza Jalali Cinematographer
United States release September 3, 2005 · Produced in Iran · Production Farabi Cinema, Farabi Cinema Foundation
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Sheherazad Media International
Production
Farabi Cinema
Production
Farabi Cinema Foundation
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Iran
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Original title
جزیره آهنی
Original language
Persian
Spoken on screen
Persian
Release dates
France · May 20, 2005
Premiere · Cannes Film Festival
United States · September 3, 2005
Premiere · Telluride Film Festival
Australia
July 20, 2005 · Premiere · Melbourne International Film Festival
Belgium
July 12, 2006 · Theatrical
Canada
September 14, 2005 · Premiere · Toronto International Film Festival
Estonia
November 24, 2005 · Premiere · Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
France
October 5, 2005 · Theatrical
Germany
September 24, 2005 · Premiere · Hamburg Film Festival
May 28, 2015 · TV
Greece
November 21, 2005 · Premiere · Thessaloniki International Film Festival
January 25, 2007 · Limited theatrical
Hong Kong SAR China
April 5, 2006 · Premiere · Hong Kong International Film Festival
Hungary
April 7, 2006 · Premiere · Titanic International Filmpresence Festival
Iceland
September 30, 2005 · Premiere · Reykjavik International Film Festival
India
November 24, 2005 · Premiere · International Film Festival of India
Netherlands
November 16, 2006 · Premiere · International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam
Poland
October 13, 2005 · Premiere · Warsaw Film Festival
Portugal
July 25, 2007 · Premiere · Avanca Film Festival
Spain
November 25, 2005 · Premiere · Gijón International Film Festival
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