Award-winning Iranian filmmaker Rakshan Banietemad ends her eight-year hiatus from feature filmmaking with this ingenious, mosaic-like narrative, which knits together the stories of seven characters to create a microcosm of Iranian working-class society.
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Habib Rezaei
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Rakhshan Banietemad Director · Farid Mostafavi Screenplay Siamak Kalantari Composer
United States release February 20, 2015 · Produced in Iran · Production Kanoon Iran Novin
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Iran Novin Film
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Kanoon Iran Novin
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Iran
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Original title
قصه ها
Original language
Persian
Spoken on screen
Persian
Release dates
Iran · February 1, 2014
Premiere · Fajr Film Festival
United States · February 20, 2015
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Argentina
July 30, 2015
Australia
June 11, 2015 · Sydney Film Festival
Austria
October 26, 2014 · Vienna International Film Festival
Brazil
September 25, 2014 · Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival
Canada
September 5, 2014 · Premiere · Toronto International Film Festival
China
June 13, 2015 · Shanghai International Film Festival
Estonia
November 14, 2014 · Premiere · Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
Germany
September 28, 2014 · Hamburg Film Festival
Greece
November 2, 2014 · Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Hong Kong SAR China
March 30, 2015 · Hong Kong International Film Festival
India
November 13, 2014 · Kolkata International Film Festival
Italy
August 28, 2014 · Premiere · Venice Film Festival
Russia
August 21, 2015 · Sakhalin International Film Festival
Serbia
March 6, 2015 · Belgrade Film Festival
Slovenia
November 11, 2015 · Ljubljana International Film Festival
South Korea
October 6, 2014 · Premiere · Busan International Film Festival
Spain
November 21, 2014 · Gijón International Film Festival
Sri Lanka
November 6, 2015 · Colombo International Film Festival
Sweden
November 12, 2014 · Stockholm International Film Festival
Taiwan
October 9, 2015 · Taiwan Women International Film Festival
Türkiye
April 23, 2015 · Ankara International Film Festival
United Arab Emirates
October 24, 2014 · Abu Dhabi Film Festival
United Kingdom
October 11, 2014 · London Film Festival
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