Shekarchi / Hunter, IR-DE 2010 colour 92 min.
dir: Rafi Pitts
pro: Thanassis Karathanos, Mohammad Reza Takhtkeshian.      Twenty Twenty Vision, Aftab Negaran
sc: Rafi Pitts
ph: Mohammad Davudi
ed: Hassan Hassandoost
cast: Rafi Pitts, Mitra Hajjar, Ali Nicksaulat, Hassan Ghalenoi
dis: Manana

Ali has recently been released from prison and is now working as a night watchman in Tehran. This factory job now means that he is at least able to support his small family comprising his wife Sara and their daughter, Saba. One day, tragedy happens. At the police station, where he looks for missing wife and daughter, he is informed that his wife was caught up in a shoot-out with demonstrators and was killed. His daughter Saba, however, is still missing. Ali’s search for his daughter drives him to distraction; he despairs still more, when, in the end, her dead body is discovered. Desperate for revenge he runs amok randomly killing two policemen. After the deed he heads for the woods in the north by car. But the police have long been on his trail; they give chase along a country road until Ali’s car crashes. Ali runs off into the woods to hide among the trees – in vain.

Berlin IFF 2010 – Competition