Shab Dakheli Divar

Ali, a blind man, is about to commit suicide and is stopped by the doorman of his building. He is informed that the police are looking for a woman who has escaped and is hiding somewhere in the building. Ali gradually realizes that Laila is the fugitive woman inside his apartment. After participating in a workers’ protest that led to chaos, Leila is anxious and worried about her 4-year-old son, who went missing while taking him to the police van. Little by little, Ali becomes emotionally attached to Leila and…

Director and writer: Vahid Jalil Vand

Genre: Political, social – Producer: Ali Jalil Vand

Danlod Va Tamasha Online

The film has become a new experience in Iranian cinema, which can keep itself alive as a cult film in the memory of its audience. The film with such a potential, in a few cases, has done mischief that does not fit into the professional and technical framework of the work at all.

The peak of these small mischiefs can be defined in the sequence of gathering of workers in front of the factory and the way the security forces deal with them.

Next, and what happens inside the van, is the continuation of this path that maybe the film did not see the urgent need to show and criticize the ruling system and could have instilled such a purpose in its audience with a milder expression.

The element of suspense in the whole work is tangible in a creeping way. This element causes the film to never fall out of rhythm in the different seasons of its narrative, and to be on its feet at all times and encourage its audience to continue the story.

Of course, the film’s advantages do not end there: the film, due to the abundance of interior spaces, has an intelligent cinematography that does not tire the audience despite the long time. The mise-en-scènes are well closed and the sequences, despite the darkness of most of the scenes and the signal that a blind character gives to his audience, are not annoying or boring.