Behrooz Karamizade’s Iranian drama “Empty Nets,” which has its international premiere in the Crystal Globe Competition at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, offers a sobering look at the increasingly …
, offers a sobering look at the increasingly difficult, sometimes hopeless lives of young working-class people in Iran as they strive for better lives.
While his family is from southern Iran, Karamizade traveled to the northern region of the country, finding inspiration on the Caspian coast. “I am very connected to the sea; I am a very sea-addicted person. I love the sea and I love the different faces of the sea. I was always interested in fishermen, this very strong masculinity and very hierarchic, arcane people. One of my favorite stories was that of Captain Nemo – ‘Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.’ I love these stories.
The idea came to him to bring a young, innocent, naive, romantic person, still unspoiled by the hardships of life, into this world dominated by men and ruled by power – a role perfectly embodied by Abbasi. The fishery itself is a parable of a dictatorship, Karamizade adds. There is a large elite in Tehran that enjoys a very good life but unfortunately the gap is getting bigger and bigger and many people are suffering, Karamizade says. “That’s also why I made the film. I wanted to understand the fishermen and also the poachers and why they are doing it. … But I also wanted to criticize them and I wanted to show that sometimes when you push people to the edge, they can do a lot of things that are not good for them and not good for the world.
Karamizade shot “Empty Nets” on location in the northern Iranian coastal cities of Rasht and Bandar Anzali – a region whose damp climate and overcast skies evoked a melancholic and oppressive atmosphere the director and cinematographer Ashkan Ashkani found ideal for the film.
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