Empty Nets

“A piercing, powerful debut from Behrooz Karamizade”

EMPTY NETS is a powerful and multifaceted new film directed by Iranian-born filmmaker Behrooz Karamizade with cinematography by Ashkan Ashkani who also did the cinematography for Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof, winner of a special award at Cannes for the Seed of the Sacred Fig. Rasoulof fled Iran just before the festival began, while Karamizade left years before to work out of Germany.

It starts as a love story with two Iranian youths, Amir and Narges, and evolves into a class struggle as the two must meet clandestinely to avoid the displeasure of Narges’s parents who have arranged for Narges to marry into her class. Amir desperately needs money to pull himself up to her level. In spite of Amir’s tenacity and hard work as part of a fishing crew, he is inevitably drawn into the darker side of his job selling illegally poached caviar carved out of the fish to earn more money. Things spiral downward as he is unable to reach above his class and his hopes to marry Narges are dashed.

EMPTY NETS has already received rave reviews, 100% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.

I look forward to hearing from you if we can arrange a booking for you.

John Poole, Sr, President
Corinth Films

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FILM DETAILS

2023 | 101 min | Iran | Drama

Directed by Behrooz Karamizade
Starring Hamid Reza Abbasi, Sadaf Asgari, Keyvan Mohamadi

Farsi with English Subtitles

To book this film, email
john@corinthfilms.com

TRAILER

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A group of men standing around a large pool making bets on two men swimming in water
Man standing in ocean pulling on a large fishing net
Empty Nets Movie Still

FESTIVALS

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival –

Crystal Globe Competition – Special Jury Prize

San Francisco International Film Festival

Celebration of Iranian Cinema at UCLA Pacific Film Archive

Filmfest Munich, Germany – Best Production Award

Adelaide Film Festival, Australia – Feature Fiction Award

Ahrenshooper Filmnachte, Germany – Best Film, Audience Award

REVIEWS

“Socially conscious neorealism at its best.”

“…a confidently quiet, elegiac first feature from Iranian-German writer-director Karamizade – who brings a certain European arthouse sheen to a story otherwise steeped in the stark modern tradition of Iranian social realism.”

“…Karamizade has a light touch, and his [director of photography], Ashkan Ashkani, gives the film a suitably seductive aquatic blue palette that reflects its all-consuming vision of a man who’s metaphorically, lost at sea.”

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