This is a 26.5" x 38" Iranian poster designed by Mohammad Rouholamin
for the 2014 Hamid Nematollah film Heavy Makup written by Hamid
Nematollah and Hadi Moghadamdoost and starring Amir Badri as Majid.
Plot summary: A young man steals a load of fireworks from one of his
friends for the Wednesday Outside New Year celebration and tries to
sell them through a girl he loves.
Cast and crew: Hamid Nematollah, Mohammad Rouholamin, Hadi
Moghadamdoost, Hamed Behdad, Tannaz Tabatabayi, Habib Rezaei, Ali
Emrani, Hooman Barghnavard, Jamal Ejlali, Amir Badri
This is a 26.5" x 38" Iranian poster designed by Hamid Reza Eshaqi for
the 2014 film Everything for Sale written and directed by Amir
Hossein Saghafi and starring Saber Abar. Plot summary: When a young
man is injured in a soccer stadium his older brother risks everything
to try to get money for an operation.
Pictured is a 27" x 38.25" Iranian poster made to promote the 2013
80-minute Bahram Azimi 80-minute color animation film Tehran
1500 starring Mehran Modiri based on a story by Amir Masoud
Aslamdari and Bahram Azimi. Plot summary: The film is about the past
and present life of a 160-year-old man named Akbar Aqa [Mehran Modiri]
set 15 days before New Year's day of the year 1500 in the Muslim solar
calendar [06 March 2121]. In the year 1500, robots live among the
people and with advanced medical resources wealthy people can live up
to 160 years.
This is a 26.5" x 38.5" Iranian poster designed by Sheyban Khaghani to
promote the 2012 Fereydoun Jeyrani 97-minute color film I Am a
Mother [man madar hastam] starring Baran Kosari based on a story
by Fereydoun Jeyrani with cinematography by Morteza Ghofari. Plot
summary: The lives of two prosperous families are falling apart.
Things happen in the life of a 19-year-old girl named Ava in one of
the families [Baran Kosari] that expose many secrets in the lives of
the people in the story.
Poster warning in top left corner: The topic of this film is social
pathology; it is not recommended for people under the age of 16.
As the film begins this quote appears in white letters against a
black background: "All happy families are all alike; each unhappy
family is unhappy in its own way." Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Chapter 1.
Some conservative religious groups in Iran including the Ansar-e
Hezbollah protested the screening of this film and demanded the
revocation of its exhibition license. The film was edited to
accomodate these protests.
