Film Information
Year: 2023
Duration: 116'
Language: VOSE
Genre: Drama
Synopsis
Achilles works night shifts as an orthotic assistant in a Tehran hospital. One evening, he’s summoned to the psychiatric ward to attend to a patient who has injured her wrist by striking the walls. The colleague who alerts Achilles to this confides in him about her son’s tragic end owing to the prevailing state system, prompting Achilles to disclose his own discontent. As the film progresses, Achilles’ story is gradually revealed. His unexpected encounter with the psychiatric patient, Hedieh, shakes him from his listlessness as they embark on a brief journey, where he must decide whether to run away with her or take her back to the hospital.
Director
Farhad Delaram was born in Tehran in 1988. He studied film at the University of Tehran, where he focused his studies on sound in poetic cinema. In addition to working as an independent filmmaker, he has a 15-year career as a screenwriter. Farhad has made nine independent short films working as director, writer, cinematographer, editor, and sound editor, such as Like the Last Day (2016), Away from Home (2018), Tattoo (2019), which won the Crystal Bear for Best Short Film in the Generation 14plus section of the Berlin Film Festival, Expo Pandemic (2020) and Sillage: Portrait of an Onlooker (2022). Achilles (2023) is his first feature film.
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