Drown (film)

Drown
Film poster
Persianشنای پروانه
Directed byMohammad Kart
Written byPedram Pour Amiri
Hossein Amiri Domari
Mohammad Kart
Produced byRasul Sadr Ameli
Starring
CinematographySaman Lotfian
Music byMasoud Sekhavatdoost
Release date
  • February 1, 2020 (2020-02-01) (FIFF)
CountryIran
LanguagePersian

Drown (Persian: شنای پروانه, romanizedShenā-ye Parvāneh) (also titled Butterfly Stroke) is an Iranian drama crime mystery film directed by Mohammad Kart. The film screened for the first time at the 38th Fajr Film Festival and earned 12 nominations and received 5 awards.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

Plot

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Parvaneh (Tanaz Tabatabai) goes to her brother-in-law Hojjat (Javad Ezzati)'s refinery garage and asks him to stop his brother Hashem (Amir Aghaei). Hashem has gone to a swimming pool with his henchmen for revenge and is destroying it because a video of Parvaneh swimming in the swimming pool is published on the Internet. On the way back from the pool, Hashem kills Parvaneh. The court sentences Hashem to death. Hojjat and his father (Nader Shahsavari) go to Parvaneh's father (Alireza Davoudnejad) for consent. Parvaneh's father says he only agrees if the one who took the video is found. Police say the SIM card that first aired the film belonged to a man named Reza Zare, who recently escaped from an addiction camp. Hojjat is looking for Reza along with Mosayeb (Mahdi Hosseininia), Hashem's close friend. But they find that Reza is dead.

With Hashem's guidance, Hojjat goes to the people who worked with Hashem. These include Ashkan (Ali Shadman) who owns a liquor factory and Shapoor (Panthea Bahram) who runs a casino. But both deny involvement in the filming. The next day, the police arrests all the people Hojjat had approached. Their henchmen blame Hojjat for reporting them to the police and attack his house. Hojjat, along with her sister-in-law Mohammad (Iman Safa), kidnaps and harasses people in the region who have a history of snitching.

Akbar Kenti (Behrouz Panahandeh), one of the abductees, admits that it was him that reported to the police and he did so on the orders of a woman who claimed to be the temporary wife of Hojjat. Hojjat pulls the woman (Aban Asgari) to his garage by a fake accident and puts pressure on her. The woman confesses to filming Parvananeh and hiring Akbar under Mosayeb's order.

Hojjat kidnaps Mosayeb who confesses to everything with the motive of taking revenge on Hashem and says that a few years ago Hashem hired several people to kidnap and rape Mosayeb. He also says that the arrest of Hojjat for inadvertently smuggling, followed by abortion and infertility of Afsaneh (Mahlaqa Bagheri), Hojjat's wife, was a plan of Hashem. He also says that Hojjat has inadvertently smuggled Methamphetamine for Hashem and Mosayeb several times.

Hojjat takes some money from Mosayeb to set him free. Instead, he prepares three and a half kilos of Methamphetamine (the amount which can follow a death sentence for the smuggler) and embeds it in Mosayeb's apartment and calls the police to arrest him. In the last scene of the film, Hojjat tells his family that he has not been able to find the distributor of the film.

Cast

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Reception

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Mohammad Kart, Amir Aghaei and Tannaz Tabatabaei in 38th Fajr Film Festival.

Awards and nominations

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Year Award Category Recipient Result
2022 Fajr Film Festival Best Film Rasul Sadr Ameli Nominated
Best Director Mohammad Kart Nominated
Best Screenplay Pedram Pour Amiri, Hossein Amiri Domari, Mohammad Kart Nominated
Best Supporting Actress Tannaz Tabatabaei Won
Best Supporting Actor Amir Aghaei Won
Best Cinematography Saman Lotfian Nominated
Best Original Score Masoud Sekhavatdoust Nominated
Best Makeup Design Azim Farain Nominated
Best Custom Design Ghazaleh Motamed Nominated
Best Editor Esmaeil Alizade Won
Best Sound Best Sound Effects: Mehdi Salehkermani Won
Best Sound Recording: Arash Ghasemi Won
Best Special Effects Arash Aghabeik Nominated
Audience Choice of Best Film Mohammad Kart Won
2022 Hafez Awards Best Film Rasul Sadr Ameli Nominated
Best Director Mohammad Kart Nominated
Best Screenplay Pedram Pour Amiri, Hossein Amiri Domari, Mohammad Kart Nominated
Best Actor Javad Ezzati Nominated
Best Actor Amir Aghaei Nominated
Best Actor Mehdi Hosseininia Nominated
Best Actress Tannaz Tabatabaei Nominated
Best Actress Pantea Bahram Nominated
Best Editor Ismael Alizadeh Nominated
Best Cinematography Saman Lotfian Nominated
2022 Iranian Cinema Directors' Great Celebration Best New Film Director Mohammad Kart Nominated
2022 Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Best Film Rasul Sadr Ameli Nominated
Best Director Mohammad Kart Nominated
Best Screenplay Pedram Pour Amiri, Hossein Amiri Domari, Mohammad Kart Nominated
Best Actor in a Leading Role Javad Ezzati Nominated
Best Actor in a Supporting Role Amir Aghaei Nominated
Best Actress in a Supporting Role Tannaz Tabatabaei Nominated
Best Editor Ismael Alizadeh Nominated
Best Original Score Masoud Sekhavatdoost Nominated
Best Creativity and Talent (first filmmakers) Mohammad Kart Nominated
2022 Urban International Film Festival Best Film Rasul Sadr Ameli Nominated
Best Director Mohammad Kart Nominated
Best Screenplay Pedram Pour Amiri, Hossein Amiri Domari, Mohammad Kart Won
Best Actor Amir Aghaei Nominated
Best Actress Pantea Bahram Nominated
Best Technical Ismael Alizadeh Nominated

References

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  1. ^ "اسامی فیلم‌های بخش سودای سیمرغ جشنواره فجر 38 اعلام شد". جشنواره فیلم فجر (in Persian).
  2. ^ ".: Iranian Movie DataBase فيلم شنای پروانه :". www.sourehcinema.com. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
  3. ^ "فیلم شنای پروانه (1398)|خرید و دانلود + بازیگران|سلام‌سینما". www.salamcinama.ir. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
  4. ^ شنای پروانه محمد کارت کلید خورد". سینمای هنر و تجربه (in Persian). 2019-11-04. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
  5. ^ "خبرهایی از اولین فیلم سینمایی محمد کارت". ایسنا (in Persian). 2019-11-04. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
  6. ^ ""شنای پروانه" و "روز صفر" رکوردداران سیمرغ فجر ۳۸". ایسنا (in Persian). 11 February 2020.
  7. ^ "شنای پروانه و روز صفر صاحب بیشترین جایزه در جشنواره فیلم فجر 38".
  8. ^ روز صفر و شنای پروانه سیمرغ‌ها را درو کردند". ایرنا (in Persian). 11 February 2020.
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