Director: Babak Payami
Script: Babak Payami
Cinematographer: Farzad Jodat
Editing: Parviz Shahbazi
Sound: Reza Delpak
Cast: Ali Hosseini, Leyla Saadi, Alireza Jamali, Ahmad Gordan, P. Hosseinpour, Jafar Coubdar
Production: Payam films
Distribution:
Solaris Distribution
12 rue Calmels
75018 Paris
France
Tel: 0033 1.53.41.89.59
Fax: 0033 1.53.41.89.58
Mail: [email protected]
Year: 2000
35 mm, Colour, 71 min,
OV Farsi with French Subtitles
Spection Mention Jury Awards - Torino Film Festival
Best Artistic Direction - Tokyo Film Festival
In Teheran, at the dawn of the third millennium, a man and a woman meet every day at the bus stand. While travelling a short distance together, they try to live a romance without anyone noticing it. The man, a prisoner, has a special daily leave and tries to survive with trafficking of medicine. He was once married, and now tries to put an end to his solitude with this woman, a widow or a divorcee. One more day, this is all they need to relieve their loneliness.
One More Day is Babak Payami's debut film, before Secret Ballot got him an award in Venice.
The film is a straight condemnation of the vice-like grip in which Iranian society catches men and women, to the extent of ruling their lives as couples, thus killing the very possibility of love.