"Director: Rafi Pitts"

• It's Winter | DVD | (23/04/2007) from £8.76   |  Saving you £11.23 (56.20%)   |  RRP £19.99

  It's Winter (aka. Zemestan) is the fourth feature from acclaimed Iranian director Rafi Pitts. A man is fired from his job. Having no more options he decides to go and find work abroad leaving behind his wife and daughter. Months pass and his family hear no word from him. A stranger a mechanic arrives in town in search of work. His eyes wander to the beautiful young woman whom he hears no longer has a husband. The world expressed in this most beautiful of films is one of hunger and poverty where immigration is seen as a last hope however illusory. It's Winter centres on a family that is separated by poverty. It sorrowfully illustrates the struggle to survive of a generation torn between wanting to leave its country yet bound by blood to home. Based on the story Safar by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi.

• The Hunter | DVD | (28/02/2011) from £7.05   |  Saving you £8.94 (55.90%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Recently released from prison Ali makes the most of his return amidst much talk of the upcoming elections and promises of change. Despite working nights he tries to spend the most time possible with his beautiful wife and young daughter. To escape the stress of urban living Ali retreats to his favorite pastime of hunting in the secluded forest north of town. Tragedy strikes and Ali's wife Sara is accidentally killed in a police shoot-out with demonstrators. After a long and frustrating experience at the police station Ali's own search for his missing six-year-old daughter ends in horror and pushes him over the edge... In broad daylight overlooking the busy city's surrounding highways Ali randomly shoots and kills two policemen. After a high-speed car chase outside of town Ali flees into the northern forest where he is captured by two police officers. Ali is resigned to his fate and watches quietly as the arguing policemen lose their way in the woods. Situations complicate and the line between hunter and hunted becomes difficult to define...

• The Rafi Pitts Collection - 3 Disc Set | DVD | (28/05/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Sanam (2000) The tale of a woman who is left to raise her son and work the family farm herself after her husband is shot. It's Winter (2006) The struggle to survive, for a generation, torn between wanting to leave its country, yet bound by blood to home. The Hunter (2010) This powerful thriller stars writer/director Rafi Pitts as Ali, a man whose world is shattered when his wife and young daughter go missing. In the face of police indifference to his plight, something snaps inside him and he shoots an officer dead with his hunting rifle and goes on the run. A searing indictment of political corruption, The Hunter is a tense and compelling film set against the background of social unrest in Iran.

• Sanam | DVD | (31/05/2012) from £22.94   |  Saving you £-6.95 (-43.50%)   |  RRP £15.99

  DVD premiere of this affecting drama by Rafi Pitts, the acclaimed director of 'It's Winter' & 'The Hunter'.It tells the story of Sanam, a woman who is left widowed when her husband is shot dead after being accused of stealing a horse. Left to raise her son and work the family farm alone, Sanam must must ponder the idea of marrying a man who could readily support the family, even though she knows she does not love him.