We were the very first festival, who saw it, and actually the last one,
because... Last one for now. ...because we liked the movie so much,
we jumped after it immediately. We were worried for a while because
the film has not started to be offered yet, to not somehow delay the decision
and not wait for a decision from elsewhere. But fortunately they were so pleased by our invitation that the immediately
arrived here, so Maade tarik went practically straight from the
editing room to Kviff. Iran's
response to Truffaut's
two films together. Isn't it the "Jules and Jim"
and "American Night" bit? No, it is Bande à part
directed by Godard. But there are these aspects,
two men, one woman. They're beautifully low-budget
and rambunctious, funny and clever. And it's one of many Iranian
films at this year's KVIFF. The movie is especially exceptional because they decided...
And we'll see in what trouble will the filmmakers get, that they're showing
women without hijabs. Because In Iran, there is a
complete ban on showing
women with their hair uncovered. And this film has a premise, right from the beggining,
we decided to make a film in a punk way and nobody's gonna
cover their hair here. So the movie actually crossed one of the of the most significant
bans Iranians have on cinematography. The film really wants to tear down everything that the young Iranians are
constrained by what bothers them, what actually prevents them from living
a normal life, the way we imagine it. Which means we ca
n wear
whatever we want, express ourselves however we want,
and to be able to just live. Which is not possible
there right now. Which is interesting,
when the Islamic Revolution took place in 1979. Back then the
protest went a bit the opposite way. They protested against the Shah Pahlavi so that the ladies were
putting it on in protest. Well, the revolution went a little too far, unfortunately,
where they didn't want it to. And unfortunately it hasn't changed.
But at the same time, we're very se
rious about this film now,
but it's incredibly funny. It's playful, and the three main characters are so
charismatic, you would actually wanted to go to the pub
and hang out with them. It all just goes hand in hand with the numbness that often
accompanies Iranian films and is completely denied here. It's a joy. And such an explosion of cinematic
ideas when you just laugh at how... With just a few dollars you can make a great
thing, you just have to have a good idea. The film, if it was made in a
nother country, would look the same,
but at the same time, would anyone in another country have
a reason to make a movie like this one? That is how the film is put, because
when you live the way people live now in Iran, it might make you
want to make a film like this one, defining yourself against something. Yeah, you might take a stand against
something in an incredibly elegant and sensitive way that you don't define
yourself in the usual way, you take a stand by making an extremely
original fi
lm, where the denial of those rules is actually somewhere
in the back, and it's not the main thing theme here, which is one of the many things
I admire about Dark Matter.
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