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Original name: Diapason
English name: Diapason
Year: 2019
Run time: 90'
Language: Persian
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour
Country: Iran
Director: Hamed Tehrani
Producer: Alireza Shojanoori
Cast: Zhaleh Sameti, Behnosh Bakhtiyari,
Alireza Ostadi, Ma’aspumch Rahmani
Screenplay: Hossein Tehrani
Cinematographer: Mehdi Ilbeygi
Editor: Sarah Ahani
Sound Designer: Vahid Razavian
Music Composer: Barzin Yousefian
Costume Designer: Mehrnaz Akbari
Production Designer: Behzad Jafari
Production Company: Tehran Films
World Sales: 7TH ART Independent Film Distribution
World Sales Phone: +98 9126268775
World Sales Email: 7thart.ifd@gmail.com
Locarno 2019
FNC Canada 2019
Hamburg IFF 2019
2019 Echo
2015 Sparrows
2011 Volcano
Rúnar Rúnarsson is an Icelandic filmmaker born in Reykjavik in 1977. In 2009, he graduated from the Directors’ section of The National Film School of Denmark. His short film The Last Farm (2004) was an Academy-Award nominee and was followed by 2 Birds, which competed for the Short Film Palme d’Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. His first feature Volcano (2011) premiered at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight. His sophomore feature Sparrows won the Golden Shell at San Sebastian in 2015. Echo is Rúnar Rúnarsson’s third feature-film.
Iceland, Christmas time.
As everyone prepares for the holidays, a peculiar atmosphere falls upon the country revealing emotions of both excitement and concern. In the middle of the countryside, an abandoned farm is burning. In a school, a children’s choir is singing Christmas carols. In a slaughterhouse, chickens are parading along a rail. In a museum, a mother is arguing with her ex-husband on the phone. In a living room, a young girl is making her grandmother try on her new virtual reality headset. Through 56 scenes, Echo draws a portrait, both biting and tender, of modern society.
