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. [show more]
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Iranian drama about a worker's family left behind when he leaves to seek work abroad. A young Iranian man, desperate and with his family facing grim financial straits, decides to move abroad to seek work. His family, after not hearing from him in an increasingly long time, begins to doubt he'll be back at all. Things are further complicated when an itinerant mechanic arrives in town and sets his eye on the mother of the family, after hearing she no longer has a husband.
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