Movies - Reims Film Festival 2021 : Metri Shesh Va Nim in competition

By Mulder, 21 april 2021

"In recent years, drug addiction has changed its face in Iran. It has come out of hiding and into the open. More and more drug addicts are visible on the streets. Their addiction to a new substance, crack, has put them on the street in a much more massive and rapid way than other drugs did. After seeing these people, I had the idea to make a documentary about them and I started to research. In the end, that documentary was never made, but it influenced my fiction films. "Saeed Roustayi

The Law of Tehran (Metri Shesh Va Nim) is an Iranian thriller, written and directed by Saeed Roustayi and released in Iran in 2019. Hailed at the Fajr Film Festival by winning the award for Best Fan Favorite Film (which is the festival's highest honor), Best Editing, Best Sound Recording while being nominated in a total of seven categories. It has established itself as the most profitable non-comic film in the history of Iranian cinema.

The film will be screened in France as part of the Beaune film festival.

Saeed Roustayi was born in 1989 in Tehran, where he graduated from Soureh Film University with a degree in directing. He directed 3 short films and a highly acclaimed documentary that won over 100 awards. His first feature film, Life And A Day (2016), received all 9 major w awards in Tehran, the most important Iranian festival, as well as major awards from the Annual Iranian Film Awards and the Annual Iranian Film Critics Award, and in various international festivals

Synopsis:
In Iran, the penalty for drug possession is the same whether you have 30 grams or 50 kilograms on you: the death penalty. In these conditions, drug traffickers have no qualms about playing big and the sale of crack has exploded. As a result, 6.5 million people have fallen off the wagon. After several years of tracking, Samad, a stubborn cop with expedient methods, finally gets his hands on the drug godfather Nasser K. While he thought the case was closed, the confrontation with the brain of the network will take a completely different turn...

Metri Shesh Va Nim
Written and directed by Saeed Roustayi
Produced by Mohammad Sadegh Ranjkeshan, Jamal Sadatian
Starring Payman Maadi, Navid Mohammadzadeh, Parinaz Izadyar, Farhad Aslani, Houman Kiai, Maziar Seyedi, Ali Bagheri, Marjan Ghamari, Yusef Khosravi, Mehdi Hoseini-nia, Gity Ghasemi, Asghar Piran, Mohammad Ali Mohammadi, Peyman Ghasemzadeh, Javad Pourheidari
Music by Peyman Yazdanian
Cinematography: Hooman Behmanesh
Edited by Bahram Dehghani
Production companies : Boshra Film
Distributed by Wild Bunch (France)
Release date : January 30, 2019 (Iran),
Running time : 131mns