Luckless Lake
October 27, 2023
Singing Wing

Iran-Documentary-2024-74 min

SYNOPSIS

An acting-crazed girl named Maria from a traditional family comes to play the role of a prostitute in a movie, without her family knowing about it. When a footage of her acting rehearsal gets passed around the Internet, her family starts to believe that she has really become a prostitute and all their reputation" is ruined. Right after this incident, the girl disappears.

Two years later, the director of the movie she was supposed to act in, makes a movie of what happened. On the day of the director's wedding ceremony, to everyone's amazement, Maria falls from a footbridge onto the director's car, ruining everything. The director tries to find out the reason for Maria's downfall by getting to know her family - just like a detective.

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DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT

Mahdi Asghari Azghadi 

Fictitious images of films or normal recorded video clips from everyday life can sometimes be more believable and horrifying than reality. In fact, it can even change our perception of reality. Iranian traditional people do not tend to distinguish what is real or fake in movies - They judge people based on what they see in the picture.

My film is actually based on a true story. It all starts from a leaked rehearsal video of a keen young actress, acting as a prostitute. She was from a traditional family, living in a rural region. When the video was passed around the Internet, the girl's traditional family thought that she had really become a prostitute. Therefore, they planned to take revenge on her and whoever filmed her...

FILMOGRAPHY: Collapsible Factory (short, 2020), Maria (2023)

CREW:

  • Director: Mahdi Asghari Azghadi
  • Screenwriter: Mahdi Asghari Azghadi
  • Director of Photography: Davood Malekhosseini
  • Editor: Elnaz Ebadolahi
  • Set Designer: Omid Akbari
  • Costume Designer: Samereh Javanmard
  • Sound Recording: Hasan Keramatfar, Hamed Hoseinzadeh
  • Sound Designer: Bahman Ardalan
  • Music: Hamed Sabet
  • VFX supervisor: Amin Enteshari
  • Make Up: Mehdi Sayyad
  • Still Photographer: Bahram Khosrojerdi
  • Producer: Ali Ladoni