Private Project

Life without Life

Ardeshir Suffers from lung cancer and has only six months to live. Satyar(Ardeshir's son) is a musician, and collects his father's money from debtors in an unusual way.

  • Kaveh Moeinfar
    Director
  • Kaveh Moeinfar
    Writer
  • Jafar Mohammadi
    Producer
  • Abbas Ataei
    Key Cast
  • Amir Vazzan
    Key Cast
  • Marjan Sadeghi
    Key Cast
  • Arash Sasani
    Director of Photography
  • Amir Taghdiri
    Editor
  • Nima Aziminejad
    Music
  • Mohammad Salehi
    Sound Recordist
  • Hassan Mahdavi
    Sound Designer
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    زندگی بدون زندگی
  • Project Type:
    Feature
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 30 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    September 30, 2017
  • Production Budget:
    30,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Iran, Islamic Republic of
  • Country of Filming:
    Iran, Islamic Republic of
  • Language:
    Japanese, Kurdish, Persian
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1.85
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • 30th Tokyo International Film Festival
    Tokyo
    Japan
    October 28, 2017
    World
    Nominated for Best Film in Asian Future Section
  • Mediterranean Film Festival Cannes
    Cannes
    France
    November 25, 2017
  • MedFF
    Siracusa,
    Italy
    January 2, 2018
  • CANADA INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL
    Montreal
    Canada
    January 26, 2018
  • Annual CPH Film Festival
    Copenhagen
    Denmark
    March 3, 2018
  • AltFF Alternative Film Festival
    Toronto
    Canada
    March 15, 2018
  • NewFilmmakers NY
    New York
    United States
    March 21, 2018
  • Tiburon International Film Festival
    Tiburon
    United States
    April 10, 2018
  • Kiev International Film Festival (KIFF)
    Kiev
    Ukraine
    May 27, 2018
Distribution Information
  • Amir Taghdiri
    Country: Iran, Islamic Republic of
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Kaveh Moeinfar

Kaveh Moeinfar (born August 8, 1974) is an Iranian director and writer. He started his career in cinema by collaboration with some great and famous Iranian Directors as an assistant director in 1998 and continued this until 2005.
Some of the Iranian movies which he has participated in as an assistant director are:
- Blackboards (2000) directed by Samira Makhmalbaf which was nominated for Palme d'Or and won Jury Prize in Cannes film festival.
- A Time for Drunken Horses (2000) directed by Bahman Ghobadi (Who has recently invited to be an Oscar Academy member). The film won lots of awards such as FIPRESCI Prize and Golden Camera in Cannes film festival.
- Kandahar (2001) directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf and also was nominated for Palme d'Or and won Prize of the Ecumenical Jury in Cannes film festival.
- At Five in the Afternoon (2003) directed by Samira Makhmalbaf. In Cannes film festival it was nominated for Palme d'Or and won Jury Prize and Prize of the Ecumenical Jury.
- Stray Dogs (2004) directed by Marzieh Meshkini(Makhmalbaf) and it was nominated for Golden Lion in Venice film festival and won the Open Prize.
- Sex & Philosophy (2005) Directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf that was nominated for Grand Prix des Amériques in Montréal world film festival.
Kaveh has also worked with Siddiq Barmak, a Golden Globe-winner Afghan film director and producer in his movie "OSAMA" (2003) as an Assistant Director. Osama won Golden Globe for the Best Foreign Language Film and also won AFCAE Award, Cannes Junior Award, Golden Camera - Special Mention in Cannes film festival and Audience Award , New Currents Award - Special Mention in Busan international film festival.
Life without Life (2017) is Kaveh's first feature film.

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Director Statement

10 years ago, my father was diagnosed with cancer and six months later he passed away. Since when I've always been preoccupied with the question, how did he live? Or how should have he lived?
In "Life without Life" I wanted to invite the audience, no matter where they're from, to this simple point:
"Life has no rewind Button."
If some day we were informed that we haven't got much time, we shouldn't feel as if for all these years, we've been alive but we weren't living.