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SYNOPSIS
Terrestrial Verses follows everyday people from all walks of life as they navigate the cultural, religious, and institutional constraints imposed on them by various social authorities, from school teachers to bureaucrats. These stirring vignettes, humorous and affecting, capture the spirit and determination of people amidst adversity, offering a nuanced portrait of a complex society.
Duration : 77′
Director : Ali ASGARI, Alireza KHATAMI
Country: Iran
Produced by Ali ASGARI, Milad KHOSRAVI
Release Date : 2023
International Sales : Film Boutique
Co-produced by Alireza KHATAMI, Cyrus NESHVAD, Reyhaneh RAD
Director of photography Adib SOBHANI
Set design Hamed ASLANI
Music Masoud FAYAZ ZADEH
Editing Ehsan VASEGHI
Sound Designer Alireza ALAVIAN
Sound recordist Abdolreza HEYDARI & Iman BAZYAR
Directors’ Assistant Iman TAVAKOLI, Pouyan DARZI
Set Designer Hamed ASLANI
Costume Designer Morvarid KASHIAN
Makeup Artist Mehdi SAYAD, Omid GOLZADEH
VFX Kamyar SHAFIEPOUR
Colorist Farbod JALALI
Production Manager Mohammad ASGARI
Photographer Mahsa ZARINJOU
Bahram ARK Young Father
Arghavan SHABANI Selena
Servin ZABETIAN Aram
Sadaf ASGARI Sadaf
Faezeh RAD Faezeh
Hossein SOLEYMANI Farbod
Majid SALEHI Siamak
Farzin MOHADES Ali
Gouhar KHEIR ANDISH Mehri
Ardeshir KAZEMI 100-years-old man
Production Taat Films & Seven Springs Pictures
Co-production Tell Tall Tale, Cynefilms
Terrestrial Verses is among of top 10 movies of Cannes 2023 based on toronto star review:
May 25, 2023
Capsule Review; Rating: 3 out of 4 stars
By Peter Howell
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“One of the most surprising films of Cannes’ Un Certain Regard” What the Hollywood Reporter Roma, wrote.
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“It is the paradoxical, Kafkaesque everyday life of Terrestrial Verses by the Iranians Alireza Khatami and Ali Asgari, one of the most surprising films of Cannes’ Un Certain Regard: a feature film constructed through eleven short episodes of daily life in Tehran, which lines up with a of black humor snapshots of real abuses carried out by the regime of the ayatollahs on citizens – from birth to the last day of life. Shot indoors – the camera fixed on the protagonist, the interlocutor’s voiceover – Terrestrial Verses arrived in Cannes without the permission of the authorities: behind the camera are Khatami, an Iranian resident in Toronto, and Asgari who, after studying in Italy, in Rome, returned to Iran three years ago.”
https://www.hollywoodreporter.it/…/terrestrial…/15225/
May 24, 2023
by Ilaria Ravarino
A film as impactful as it is essential.
