Be Calm and Count to Seven Iran
2008, 89min.
Prod./Script/Dir./Prod. Design/Edit.: Ramtin Lavafipour, Dir. of Phot.: Reza Teymouri, Music by: Dariush Namdar Zangeneh, Sound: Arash Ghasemi
Cast: Heydayat Hashemi, Omid Abdollahi, Mahnaz Talandeh, Ali Molagholi, Fatemah Sangarzadeh.
In the southern islands of Iran, people make their living through smuggling. It is a living filled with anxiety and fear. With their boats, they traverse the stormy seas in the dead of night hoping to avoid the coastal police. But at times, it is the menacing sea that devours them. The stories of a young boy who has lost his father in the sea, and of a mute girl, who has lost her husband the day after her wedding are entwined with the odyssey of a man whose wife intends to leave the country illegally.
Awards
Tiger Award (Rotterdam IFF 2009); The Best Cinematography Award (Dubai IFF, 2008); Special Features Ecumenical Award (Fribourg IFF, 2009); Jury Prix (Shanghai IFF, 2009); Special Mention (Rome IFF, 2009)
Production Company
Aftab e honar afarin
| Lavafipour, Ramtin  Ramtin Lavafipour (1973, Iran)
He started his artistic career with an interest in photography during high school. Afterwards he studied filmmaking at the IRIB University in Tehran. He has made several documentaries and short films. Be Calm and Count to Seven is his feature...
Filmography
Wind Does Not Blow Only in the Sky (2001), Road (2002), One, Two, Three, Four (2003), Hederse (2003), Wind in the Silence of Dust (2005), Behind That Snowy Hill (2007), Be Calm and Count to Seven (2008).
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