2014• Drama •01h27
Tehran. June 2009. The uproar of a city swinging with the “Green Wave” of protest to the rigged presidential election. An apartment as a shelter. A man and a woman who belong to two different generations. A mobile phone and a computer to communicate with the free world. A love story, that will change two lives.
Director: Sepideh Farsi
Casting: Mina Kavani, Vassilis Koukalani, Shabnam Tolouei
Language: Persian
Subtitles: French
Release date: 09/09/2015
Bonus on the DVD: Red Rose, the genesis, the final scene of the film commented by the director, the trailer and an unreleased audio bonus: the original music of the film by Ibrahim Maalouf!
Toronto IFF 2014 - Contemporary World Cinema, Haifa IFF 2014, Chicago IFF 2014, Warsaw IFF 2014, Sao Paulo IFF 2014, Tallinn Black Nights IFF 2014, Marrakech IFF 2014, Palm Springs IFF 2015, Goteborg IFF 2015
« A feverish closed-door session (...) A fine and strong gesture of resistance. » - Télérama
« A rigorous sense of framing (...), a striking soundtrack enhanced by Ibrahim Maalouf's score, dialogues with a corrosive irony. » - Positif
« Red Rose is worth as much for his courage as for the values it defends: the freedom to love and to think. » - JDD