Babak Payami — Director (3)

Movie

752 is Not a Number (2022)
752 is Not a Number Douban
巴巴克·柏雅米 actor: Hamed Esmaelion
other title: 752不只是一个数字
The Downing of the Ukrainian passenger flight 752 over the skies of Tehran on January 8, 2020 shook the world. All 176 passengers were killed, among them women, children, university students and academics, many of them residents or citizens of Canada. The tragedy occurred during renewed tensions between Iran and the United States following the killing of an Iranian general in Iraq. Iran's retaliation for the general's killing was a missile attack on U.S. military installations near Baghdad on the morning of January 8. The exchange heightened the tensions with both sides bracing for military escalation. The ill-fated Ukrainian passenger airline took off from the Tehran International airport shortly after 6am and within 3 minutes, it was struck by two surface-to-air missiles from a nearby military base operated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The downing was initially claimed to be an accident, a technical failure of sorts. As the world learned of the missile attacks, it took no more than a few hours after the missiles attacks for the site to be cleared by bulldozers and all evidence to be destroyed. Dr. Hamed Esmaeilion, a dentist in Toronto was leading an ordinary quiet life with his wife and nine-year-old daughter. They were among the victims aboard flight PS752. The dentist from Toronto was thrust into extraordinary circumstances in his fight for justice and to find the truth behind what took the lives of his wife and daughter.

Movie

One More Day (2000)
Yez rouz bishtar Douban
巴巴克·柏雅米 actor: Ali Hosseini / Leyla Saadi …
other title: 明天再说我爱你 / Yez rouz bishtar …
《明天再说我爱你》叙述一个在千禧年来临前,发生在德黑兰一对寂寞男女之间的故事。男子为一丧妻的鳏夫,在外役牢房服役,每每谎称妻子生病要求医务室开止痛麻醉药,并夹带外出卖给黑市赚钱。女子在医院上班,与兄长同住,生活规律而孤单。两人时常在在巴士站相遇,并搭乘同一班车默默无语相对坐。终于有一天,他们炙热的内心希望结束这样对望而又孤寂的日子,可能吗?

Movie

秘密投票 (2001)
رأی مخفی Douban
other title: رأی مخفی / 暗票 …
用“大器晚成”来形容导演柏雅米可能有点误导(他2002年才 36岁)。1980年代末期负笈多伦多攻读电影,回国后一直没有拍片机会,蛰伏近十年才拍成首部作品,先后在东京和意大利都灵电影节夺奖,第二作《暗票》,在威尼斯轻取最佳导演奖。影片最难得的是用了最深入浅出的手法,直踩政治禁区:揭官僚、论民主。 驻守海边的士兵奉命在大选日接载政府派来的官员收集选票,没想到来人竟是个年青女子,而且活力和脚力十足,对每个选民采取紧迫钉人策略,誓要把选票拿到手,过程风趣感人、紧张浪漫,结局——无论剧情抑影像——更叫你目瞪口呆,把伊朗电影又带上另一层楼。 (第26届香港国际电影节)