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GAZELLE (Ahoo)
Director: Houshang Golmakani
Cinematographer: Alireza Zarrindast
Editor: Emad Khodabakhsh
Music: Fardin Khalatbari
Producer: Javad Nowrouzbeigi
Cast: Sepideh Arman, Ali Mosaffa, Hamed Komeili, Reza Yazdani, Soheila Razavi and Reza Kianian
Iran, 91 mins., 2023
Image: UltraHD 3840/2160
Ratio: 16:9
Sound: 5.1
Synopsis
After the mysterious disappearance of her fiancée, a young sculptor moves to a house in a
far-flung corner, where the few occupants of the area all seem to have moved here from
somewhere else, each carrying their own secrets.
After mysterious apprehension, disappearance of her fiancée, Farhad, a young sculptor named Parvaneh
moves to a house in a far-flung corner in the north of Iran. The few occupants of this area all seem to have
moved here from somewhere else, each carrying their own secrets, and she lives with the hope of some
news from him even though she is not even sure if he is still alive. The only thing that makes her happy is
reading Farhad’s favorite books, which she records and publishes as audiobooks. A call from a friend as
well as the local gallerist informs Parvaneh that some people have been looking for her. At the end,
Farhad comes to where Parvaneh lives. It is unclear how much time has passed and what he has been
through, but by the time he gets to Parvaneh’s house – as a metaphor for the homeland - the place is an
empty ruin, covered in dust.
DIRECTOR
Houshang Golmakani was born on March 1954 in Gorgan in North of Iran. He studied cinema in College
of Dramatic Arts in Tehran and began his career as a journalist in 1972. As a film critic, translator he is
one of the founders and chief editor of FILM Monthly, the oldest and most prestigious Iranian film
magazine published since 1982 and now continues as FILM-Emrooz (Film-Today). In a poll organized by
Iranian film critics in 1999 Golmakani selected as the most effective, influential film critic of the country
during past three decades. He is a member of NETPAC and also has been a member of jury in some
international film festivals. Golmakani is also writer and translator of some film books. Golmakani made
Stardust-Stricken, a long documentary about internationally well-known Iranian self-exiled filmmaker
Mohsen Makhmalbaf in 1995. Gazelle (Ahoo) is his first feature film.
FESTIVALS
-Moscow Film Festival, 2024, Russia
-Iranian Film Festival Praha, Czech Republic 2024
-Eurasian Creative Guild Film Festival London, UK 2024
-GOLDEN MINBAR Kazan Film Festival, Tatarstan 2024
-Marbella Film Festival, Spain 2024
Director's note
Making my first feature film in my 60s is coming true of an old dream which I had in my mind since
when I was a teenager. And that dreams, now, have mixed with harsh issues of the time. Gazelle is the
story of endless, inconclusive searching for love; a love story which its sorrow is only one tale but,
according Hafez, “From everyone that I hear, it is never the same.”
