THE APPLE DAY
THE APPLE DAY

THE APPLE DAY

Director Mahmoud Ghaffari

Production year 2022

Length 80min.

Country Iran

SYNOPSIS

A first-grade primary school teacher in a poor suburb of Tehran assigns a letter to each student and asks them to bring items starting with an assigned letter, related to their fathers' jobs. Mehdi's father is a fruit seller and he must bring 30 apples ("Seeb '' in Farsi) to class on the "S" Day. However, an unfortunate event immerses the family in a crisis. Saeed, Mehdi's older brother, should find a way to overcome this challenge and help Mehdi for “the apple day".

CAST & CREW

Mahmoud Ghaffari
Mahmoud Ghaffari

Director

Producer(s)

Elaheh Nobakht

Script

Mahmoud Ghaffari, Mahnaz Jarchi

Director of Photography

Ali Ehsani

Production designer

Mahmoud Ghaffari

Music by

Ali Mansour

Sound

Hamed Hosseinzadeh

Edit

Mahmoud Ghaffari

Cast

Aria Mohammadzadeh, Arian Rastkar, Zhila Shahi, Khodadad Bakhshizadeh, Mahdi Pourmoosa

Production company(ies)

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Mahmoud Ghaffari

Born in Tehran, 1976. Mahmoud Ghaffari started his career in cinema with short fiction and documentary films, and he has made 15 films. His first film It’s a Dream won the Talent Tape Award in the Fribourg IFF in Switzerland.


Filmography

It’s a Dream (2012), Hair (2016), No. 17 Soheila (2017), The Apple Day (2022).

FILMS 2022