ROXANA
Drama | Running Time: 120 minutes
2023 / Persian
Country: Iran
MENA Premiere
Born and educated in Teheran, Parviz Shahbazi began writing and directing short films in the early 1980s. He had made 12 shorts before he directed his first feature, Traveller from the South, in 1997. It won the top prize in Tokyo, among other awards. Roxana – which, like his earlier films, delves into social issues and intergenerational conflict - is his seventh feature.
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ProducerMasood Radaie
CastMahsa Akbarabadi, Yasna Mirtahmasb, Maedeh Tahmasbi, Behrang Alavi, Rambod Motalebi, Niloofar Kookhani, Shahram Abdoli
ScriptwriterParviz Shahbazi
Fred meets Roxana by chance when he looks out of a window and sees her car window being smashed. Fred is 23, jobless and infuriatingly passive; his failure to grow up is so comprehensive his own mother calls the police to take him away, complaining he still doesn’t make his own bed. Roxana is vivacious, modern, runs her own wedding video business and has a daring way with a hijab. Fred gets her car fixed and she gives him a job in return but, even when he finds himself in jail on the way to his first wedding, he has no inkling what a magnet for misfortune she is, with bankruptcy looming over her and some very shady characters in pursuit.