France / May 20, 2005 / Cannes Film Festival
1h 26min
Overall average
5.0/10
Trailer
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Plot
Squatters live on a mothballed oil tanker in the Persian Gulf. The children attend a school on board; men harvest scrap metal and old oil in the hull; women keep house and raise children and Captain Nemat runs it all with an iron hand. We follow a lad who rescues fish trapped in the hull, an old man who stares at the sun, the idealistic teacher, and Ahmad, the Captain's assistant who has fallen in love with a young woman whose father wants to marry her to someone of means. What future has this sinking city?
Genres
Drama
Technical details
| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Original title | جزیره آهنی |
| Original language | فارسی (FA) |
| Spoken languages | فارسی |
| Production countries | Iran |
| Status | Released |
| Production companies | Sheherazad Media International, Farabi Cinema |
| Release date | 5 ottobre 2005 |
| Executive producer | Bita Mansoory |
| Production | Abolhassan Davoodi, Mohammad Rasoulof |
| Writer | Mohammad Rasoulof |
| Editing | Bahram Dehghani |
| Cinematography | Reza Jalali |
| Assistant directors | Mohammad Rasoulof |
| Camera operators | Reza Jalali |
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| Additional photography | Reza Jalali |
| Production design | Mohammad Rasoulof |
| Art direction | Mohammad Rasoulof |
| Set decoration | Mohammad Rasoulof |
| Music | Mohammadreza Aligholi, Mohammad Mosavi-Nejad, Mahmood Moosavinejad, Mohamad Mokhtari |
| Sound | Mohammad Mosavi-Nejad, Mahmood Moosavinejad, Mohammadreza Aligholi, Mohamad Mokhtari |
Release dates
Premiere
Australia / Jul 20, 2005 / Melbourne International Film Festival
United States / Sep 03, 2005 / Telluride Film Festival
Canada / Sep 14, 2005 / Toronto International Film Festival
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Germany / Sep 24, 2005 / Hamburg Film Festival
Iceland / Sep 30, 2005 / Reykjavik International Film Festival
Poland / Oct 13, 2005 / Warsaw Film Festival
Greece / Nov 21, 2005 / Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Estonia / Nov 24, 2005 / Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
India / Nov 24, 2005 / International Film Festival of India
Spain / Nov 25, 2005 / Gijón International Film Festival
Hong Kong / Apr 05, 2006 / Hong Kong International Film Festival
Hungary / Apr 07, 2006 / Titanic International Filmpresence Festival
Netherlands / Nov 16, 2006 / International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam
Portugal / Jul 25, 2007 / Avanca Film Festival
Limited release
Greece / Jan 25, 2007
Theatrical release
France / Oct 05, 2005
Belgium / Jul 12, 2006
TV
Germany / May 28, 2015
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