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Wedding of Zinat’s Son
Researcher & Director: Farhad Varahram
Camera Operator: Reza Teimoori
Sound Recordist: Mehrdad Abbaspoor
Editing: Tahereh Hoseini
Year of Production: 2018
Length: 55 min
Producer: Farhad Varahram
SYNOPSIS
Mohsen, Zinat’s eldest son, is studying for his MSc degree in electronics and computer in a university in Italy. Because of loneliness and years of separation from their children, Zinat and her husband convince their eldest son to return to Iran forever and marry the girl they have chosen for him. This film is the story of the wedding of Zinat’s son, which is held over six days in Salkh Village on Qeshm Island.
Geographical Location of Salkh Village
Qeshm is the largest island in Persian Gulf and Salkh is a small village in the south of the island. Most of the villagers are fishermen. Salkh Village is famous for two things: catching large sharks with the simplest fishing tools, which has been banned for some years, and the holding of indigenous rituals especially Zaar that is still held a few time a year.
DIRECTOR
Zinat is a relatively modern woman with a background of the traditional culture of the village. Supporte
by her father who was the village headman and her husband, she was the first woman who took off her burka and some of the girls and women in the village followed suit. Zinat loves the village’s culture and ancient traditions, and she tries to introduce them to the others. Zinat sent her two sons and only daughter from a remote village on Qeshm Island to Italy to study.
The film Wedding of Zinat’s Son is the portrayal of a traditional wedding that is held in Salkh Village over six days. Wedding of Zinat’s Son shows that the historical and ancient roots of the traditions in the village are still overtly and covertly dominant over the modernity of Zinat and her husband. The traditions that caused Zinat’s son to leave his studies in Italy without disagreeing with his family’s order, and agree to marry the girl the family has chosen for him, and stay in the village forever.
Biography
Farhad Varahram
Born in 1948 Boroujerd,Iran
· Under graduated of camera work from excellent school of cinema and television
· Cinema Directing, Faculty of Dramatic Arts
· Job Responsibilities:
Supervisor of photography and film unit in the department of anthropology – association of social studies of Tehran university
Supervisor of photography and film and research assistant-Association of Iranian Peasant and Rural Research
Film Experiments:
Documentary: “ Stablizing Sand”-Camera man and Director-35mm-colorful-30min- Producer: the Organization of Pastures and Forests-1974
Subject: Stablizing moving sands in khoozestan deserts
Documentary:”Rosewater”-Camera man-16mm-colorful- 17min- Director: naderafsharnaderi- Producer: Association of Iranian Peasant and Rural Research 1355
Subject: Traditional methods of making rosewater in qamsar-kashan
Documentary: ”Palm”- Cameraman & Director-16mm-colorful-17min- Producer: Association of Iranian Peasant and Rural Research 1356Subject: how people held the ceremony of tasooaa and ashooraa in ancient village of abyaneh, countryside of natanz
Documentary: “Bazar in Ardehal” –Researcher &Director- 16mm-colorful-30min-Producer:IRIB channel 2 1980
Subject: The carpet washin ceremony in mashhadardehal city and holding a temporary market in two days along with the ceremony.
Documentary:”Taraz”- Producer, Researcher and Director-16mm-colorful-70min.1387-88
Subject: The life of some bakhtiari family nomads in winter quarters, migration routes and countries.
Documentary: “Slaughtering camel”- Producer, Researcher and Director-16mm-colorful-30min. 1991Subject: Holding Qorban ceremony in an old district of kashan city.
Documentary: “The holy wedding”( Pire-shalyar wedding ceremony)- Researcher and Director- 16mm- colorful- 73 min-Producer: The Austrian Center of Scientific Documentaries Production in cooperation with Vienna Anthropology museum.1394-95
Subject: Holding memorial ceremony of a legendary elder in uramantakht village in Kurdistan province.
Documentary: “Memory and legacy”, researcher and Director-35mm- colorful- 90 min- Producer: IRIB,SaharchannelSubject: Iran history review from cavemen era up to now. 1998-99
Film: “City Pass, over water”, Researcher and Director- Videocam- 34 min- Producer: Arad Atapoor- Ordered by IRIB channel 4. 1385
Subject: The rout of one of rivers from darband region valley to varamin desert.
Film: “The silence of jungle”- Researcher and Director- DV Cam- 35min- Producer: Arad Atapoor- Ordered by IRIB channel 4.
Subject: About ekhraje ranchers from forest regions in north of iran.
Film: “Religious foods- Abyaneh”- Researcher and Director- HD Cam- 30min- producer: IRIB Channel4.
Subject: Preparing food for the Tasooa and Ashoora ceremonies in Abyaneh village
Film: “Religious foods- Torkamansahra” – Researcher and Director- HD- 30 min- producer: IRIB Channel4.
Subject: Preparing food for the Qorbaneid Ceremony in farqesar village, TorkamanSahra.
Film: “The Abandoned Port”- Researcher and Director- Video HD- 30 min- producer: IRIB Channel 1.
Subject: Bandar Turkmen City construction due to rail way and port establishment.
Film: “Without Will”- Researcher and Director- Video HD- 15 min- producer: PezhmanLashgari poor.
Subject: A martyr who doesn’t have any will in shoolabad region, Lorestan Province
Film: “The land of sun’s home”- Researcher and Director- Video HD- 60 min- producer: DEFC
Subject: The Rout of sirvan river, one of the Kurdistan Uramanat rivers and lifestyle around it
Film: “From Alps to Damavand”- Researcher and Director- Video HD- 64 min- producer: IRIB Channel 2.
Subject: Legendary, History and lifestyle in Damavand mountain at present time
Film: “Eulogy Ethic in South of Iran”- Researcher and Director- Video HD- 72 min- producer: Visual Medias Organization.
Subject: “ the culture of traditional eulogy and its poets and music in south of iran
Film: “Blacks from south of iran”- Researcher and Director- Video HD- 54 min- producer: DEFC
Subject: Blacks Lifestyle who are settled in south of iran and their origins
Film: “Zinat’s Son Wedding”- Researcher and Director- Video HD- 55 min- producer: FarhadVarahram
Subject: Recording traditional wedding ceremony in village salakh in qeshm island
Director's note
Zinat is a relatively modern woman with a background of the traditional culture of the village. Supporte
by her father who was the village headman and her husband, she was the first woman who took off her burka and some of the girls and women in the village followed suit. Zinat loves the village’s culture and ancient traditions, and she tries to introduce them to the others. Zinat sent her two sons and only daughter from a remote village on Qeshm Island to Italy to study.
The film Wedding of Zinat’s Son is the portrayal of a traditional wedding that is held in Salkh Village over six days.Wedding of Zinat’s Son shows that the historical and ancient roots of the traditions in the village are still overtly and covertly dominant over the modernity of Zinat and her husband. The traditions that caused Zinat’s son to leave his studies in Italy without disagreeing with his family’s order, and agree to marry the girl the family has chosen for him, and stay in the village forever.
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