Russian company acquires “Unripe Pomegranates”

TEHRAN -- The Russian company Kamer-Ton-Media has acquired the right to Iranian director/producer Majidreza Mostafavi’s “Unripe Pomegranates”, some Persian news agencies reported on Wednesday. 

 

The company specializes in cinema, video and TV distribution of quality mainstream feature films as well as art-house movies in Russia and the CIS region, which includes Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.

 

The film will first be broadcast on a weekly television program entitled Movie Cult on the Russian TV channel Culture, which is produced by Kamer-Ton-Media.

 

“Unripe Pomegranates” tells the story of a couple living in a suburb of Tehran. The wife takes care of an elderly woman suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and the husband is a welder in a skyscraper. However, an accident causes new problems for the family.

 

The movie was screened in the competition section of the 36th Moscow International Film Festival in June.

 

 

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