Manuscripts

Synopsis

Isaac is a lonely bookseller who spends the strangest day of his life in his book store by hanging an advertisement on the door of his store.

 

Manuscripts, a film by Mahdi Iravani
Running Time: 00:20:00
Genre: Drama – Short
Shooting Format: Sony Fx9 – 4k – aspect ratio 1:2:39
Exhibition Format: ProRes 2k – DCP
Audio Format: 2channel stereo 48 kHz
Completed: May 22, 2024, Iran

 

 

Plot Summary

The 60-year-old bookseller “Isaac” sticks a notice ‘I want to kill myself tonight, if you care about it, let me know, Isaac’ on the half-open shutter of the store and then sits on a stool inside his store staring at the passers. After ignoring the ad by a few customers, the illiterate wax seller boy enters for using Store’s WC, The boy understands the text of the advertisement accidentally by reading the ad by a child and a complex relationship is formed between him and Isaac, he is faced with Isaac’s indifference for the whole day until…

Director Biography:

Mahdi Iravani -Born on 4th of July 1985- Director and Editor-Member of Iranian Cinema Editors Association– has collaborated with more than 40 Iranian cinema and television projects as an editor and won the best editor of the Five Continents Festival for editing. In the field of directing, in addition to directing more than 30 films-Theatre, he also directed three short films the ‘truth’, ‘Yad Aun Roza Bakhir’ and ‘Behind the Glasses’ in his career. He won the Power of Film Award in beloit IFF-USA , the best drama film in New Media IFF-China, the best drama film in Erzincan IFF-Turkey and was selected for more than 15 film festivals in Poland, Canada, Turkey, USA, China, South Korea, Hungary and… for Behind the Glasses.

 

Director’s note
Why am I so fascinated by Stinky Manuscripts that I want to make it?

Humans have always been in need of being seen, attention and communication, but in recent years and the current world situation, we feel such needs more than ever, and not only all the advances in technology, online world, etc., cannot help us in the way of freedom from loneliness and not required to communicate with each other, but also it has aggravated such needs even more for us. while such needs would be covered by attention and companionship , and the point is the human indifferent to such simple communications. Isaac is a symbol of our entire today’s society on the planet. Isaac is the only character in our film who has a name, and the others are all the people around us, whose names are not even our concern, but their smallest behavior can have the biggest impact on our lives. Such individuals’ indifferences are in line with ignoring the surroundings by Isaac himself. This is a disgrace to each and every one of us, how we are not paying attention to what we want.

About Author:

Amirhossein Payandeh Nasb, 27 years old, director and writer of the short films Penguin and Herman. He is also the author of the stage plays Khdayan’s Referendum, Adolf, and Meeting with Death and the screenplay of My current movie.

About the birth of Manuscripts, he says:

The starting point of all these complicated lines can be found in the first months of the spread of the Coronavirus. At that time, I was the only seller of a shoe-shop. Like almost all other governments, the Iranian government had ordered a quarantine, but I had to follow the order of my employer – keep the shop open – which is against the quarantine regulations. I keep it open and since the government agents are constantly patrolling the areas, I kept the shutters half-opened to be able to take quick necessary actions. One of the days in the store, I was sitting on a stool and as I was watching passers-by, I thought what would happen if I kill myself now? Who will notice? In fact, in the time of the spread of the virus, human communications were like prediction of the future and every individual was nothing but a possible virus-carrying machine. Even from the half body people view, some of whom were wearing two or three gloves of different fabrics and quickly running away from each other, I could understand how much people were afraid of each other, and at those moments, the human society and civilization that we had been trying to develop for thousands of years had disappeared and only individuality was important. that was the time when Isaac a lonely man was born.

Cast And Crew

Cast
Siamak Safari
Yousef Khosravi
Mahdi Shah Hoseini
Suoma Zamani
Elham Moazami Goodarzi
Dorin Afsharian
Touran Ramezani
Elaheh Namvar
Asal Shariat

Director
Mahdi Iravani

Writer
Amirhossein Payandeh Nasb

Producer
Mostafa Ghorbanpour

First Assistant Director
Sina Beigi

Production Planner
Hamed Moghadasi

Second Assistant Director
Elham Moazami Goodarzi

Script Supervisor
Roya Bababeigi

Still Photographer
Samira Bakhtiari

BTS Filmmaker
Edi Ahmadi

Director of Photography
Ramtin Firouzian

First Assistant Camera: Amir Rastgar
Key Grip: Peyman Safarzadeh
Grip: Ebrahim Kamali – Alireza Farsad
Camera Operator: Abbas Neisi
Equipment Supplier: Mashar Iran Studio
Cinemobile: Mahmoud Goudarzi
Poster And Title Designer: Ramtin Firouzian

Editor
Mahdi Iravani

First Assistant Editor: Elham Moazami Goodarzi

Color Artist
Ramtin Firouzian

VFX Supervisor
Behdad Bagheri

VFX Assistant
Hamid Shamakhi

Music
Damien Rice (Selected track: It Takes A Lot To Know A Man)
Sound Designer and Mix: Alireza Alavian
Sound Editor: Behzad Mehdizadeh
Technical Manager: Khashayar Babeizadeh
Technical Support: Studio Sana
Sound Recordist: Meysam Hasanlou
Boom Operator: Rasa MohammadiProduction Designer

Production Designer
Nazanin Tavasoli

First Assistant Designer
Sepideh Belon, Rasoul Mirmohammadi

Costume Assistant
Setareh Belon

Make-up Designer
Mona Jafari
Make-up Artist
Mehdi Khalaj
Make-up Artist
Hanieh Rouhani

Executive Producer and Investor
Mahdi Iravani

Production Manager 
Amir Masoud Doustar

Production Assistant
Pouria Nourizadeh

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