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One More Day
(Yek rouz bishtar)

Screening on Film
Directed by Babak Payami.
With Ali Hosseini, Leyla Saadi, Ali Reza Jamali.
Iran, 2000, 35mm, color, 75 min.
Farsi with English subtitles.

Babak Payami’s debut feature introduces a filmmaker of promise whose stylistic touch is worthy of the late Iranian master Sohrab Shaheed Saless (Still Life). The story concerns the quiet, undeclared relationship that gradually develops between a man and a woman who see each other every morning at a bus stop. By isolating his characters against the bustling backdrop of Tehran streets and its crowded, segregated buses, the Canadian-trained Payami makes a restrained but effective commentary on the segregation of sexes in an emotionally besieged society. 

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