Closed Curtain


Closed Curtain Persian Pard is a 2013 Iranian docufiction film by Jafar Panahi and Kambuzia Partovi. It premiered at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival on February 12, 2013 where Panahi won the Silver Bear for Best Script. It was shot secretly at Panahis own beachfront villa on the Caspian Sea. Panahi stated that he began shooting the film in a state of melancholy but managed to recover by the films completion. Closed Curtain is Panahis second film since his 20year ban on filmmaking after 2011s This Is Not a Film.

An unnamed screenwriter Kambozia Partovi arrives at a secluded threestory villa on the Caspian Sea. He secretly brings along his pet dog named Boy. Dogs are considered unclean under Islamic rule and the writer intends to hide Boy from authorities as he tries to get some writing done. The writer shaves his head to disguise his identity and covers all the windows in the villa with black, opaque material.One night during a thunderstorm Melika Maryam Moqadam and her brother Reza Hadi Saeedi break into the villa. They tell the writer that they have fled from an illegal beach party in which alcohol was consumed and are hiding from the police. The writer demands that they leave, but Reza states that his sister is suicidal and then leaves Melika there while he looks for a car. ........

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