Synopsis  (Country : Iran)

Don

90 mins/1998

Farhad is too young to know what despair means even though he has to cope with the harsh system that controls child labour. At 9, he still does not have an ID card because his illiterate and drug-addicted father did not report his birth.

He has to earn, however, if he wants to eat. A government official demands that he produce a proper ID card and when he is unable to do so, he is sent against his will to an orphanage. The film is shot in documentary style and depicts the exploitation of children as labour in modern day Iran.

Credits:-
Directed by Abolfazl Jalili

Cast:
Farhad Bahremand, Bakhtiyar Bahremand, Farzad Helili

Special Prize of the Jury at the 46th San Sebastian International Film Festival

Abolfazl Jalili, born in 1957, began film making as a teenager. He studied at the Iranian College of Dramatic Arts. In 1983 he made his first feature film, Milad, and is known as a controversial figure in Iranian cinema for his experiments with film language and aesthetics. Some of his outstanding films are Scabies (1987), Dorna (1990) and A True Story (1996).