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Section: Festival Laurels from around the World, Patron of Children Audience Award
The Apple Day (2022)
A first-grade primary school teacher in a poor suburb of Tehran assigns a letter to each student and asks them to bring items starting with an assigned letter, related to their fathers’ jobs. Mehdi's father is a fruit seller and Mehdi must bring 30 apples (“Seeb” in Farsi) to class on the “S” Day. However, an unfortunate event immerses the family in a crisis. Saeed, Mehdi's older brother, must find a way to overcome this challenge and help Mehdi for “apple day”.
| Country | Iran |
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| Year | 2022 |
| Duration | 79 min |
| Rating | 12 |
| Language | Persian, Turkish |
| Subtitle | Czech, English |
| Directed by | Mahmoud Ghaffari |
| Screenplay | Mahmoud Ghaffari, Mahnaz Jarchi |
| Director of Photography | Ali Ehsani |
| Music | Ali Mansour |
| Edited by | Mahmoud Ghaffari |
| Contact | ELI Image |
Biography
Iranian screenwriter and director. His feature debut was the drama It's a Dream (In yek royast, 2012), and he also made the films No. 17 Soheila (Shomareh 17 Soheila, 2017) and The Apple Day (Rooz-e sib, 2022). He also works in TV and cooperates with other directors.
Based upon a Book, Family, Poverty, Children with parents, School, Urban Life, Growing Up