Iran ‘Astigmatic’ filming concludes

Shooting stage for Iranian director Majid Reza Mostafavi’s ‘Astigmatic’ has come to an end, domestic media says.

With the last sequence of the film shot near a hospital in Iranian capital city of Tehran and after 38 sessions of filming, the production procedure of the movie went to the next stage.

The star-studded film has Iranian actresses such as Baran Kosari, Niki Karimi, Behnoush Bakhtiyari on the cast list.

‘Astigmatic’ is a social drama jointly written by Payam Karami and the director of the film. Some crew members of the film are as follows:

Cinematography Supervisor: Rozbeh Rayga/ Assistant Directors: Amin Qavami, Mohammad Reza Keshmiri/ Production Manager: Mahdi Cheraqi / Makeup Artist: Mohsen Darsanj/ Scenic and Costume Designer: Hassan Rouhparvari/ Sound Recordist: Babak Ardalan/ Scene Photographer: Ahmad Reza Shojaee.

This is the second directorial experience of filmmaker Mostafavi with his first work ‘Unripe Pomegranates’ becoming the official selections of several international festivals.

A plot summary for Mostafavi's directorial debut reads, “Ensi and Zabih are a couple who are living" in the suburbs of Tehran... "The young couple are … expecting a baby, however, the destiny is not as they could predict!"

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