Argentina to host three Iranian women

Iranian filmmaker Manijeh Hekmat's Three Women is slated to be screened at the 2008 San Luis Cine International Festival in Argentina.

Hekmat’s second feature-length production will participate in the event’s competition section.

Three women recount the life story of three women from three different generations of Iranian women; a daughter, her mother and her grandmother.

The 94-minute film has been screened at numerous international film festivals including the 2008 Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF) in Australia.

The second edition of San Luis Cine International Festival will be held from Oct. 31 to Nov. 8, 2008.

Director: Manijeh Hekmat

Script Writer: Naghmeh Samini

Editor: Mostafa Khergheh Poush

Production Manager: Mohammad Reza Najafi

Music: Heydar Sajedi

Set Designer: Mohsen Ahangarani

Cast: Niki Karimi, Pegah Ahangarani, Maryam Bubani, Nazanin Ahmadi, Reza Kianian, Atila Oesiani, Babak Hamidian, Shahrokh Forutanian

Synopsis

Three women of three generations, grandmother, mother and daughter, who have been lost in the past, present and future.

Minoo, a forty year old woman, a carpet expert and darner, lost in her obsessions and doubts, tries to save an precious ancient rug. Her daughter’s left and Minoo’s looking for some traces to find her. Minoo’s mother suffers forgetfulness and carrying the same precious ancient rug, she’s lost in search of her memoirs in a route toward her past. Minoo, wandering among her lost ones, she seeks her own truth, while looking for her mother and daughter.

Pegah, Minoo’s daughter, has left her mother, lonely and aimlessly, passes the roads in remote regions of her country, Iran. She confronts a young man, who wanders around and is lost in the roads too.

These three women, through their searches, find out their common identities. Do these all would relate them again?