Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence in Iran. Now the one thing keeping him going is the thought of finding his wife, who thinks him dead for over twenty years.
Asia Pacific Screen Awards
2012
• Won, Asia Pacific Screen Award
Achievement in Cinematography
Turaj Aslani
Asian Film Awards
2013
• Won, Asian Film Award
Best Cinematographer
Turaj Aslani
• Won, Asian Film Award
Best Visual Effects
Farbod Khoshtinat
• Won, Asian Film Award
Best Production Designer
Bahman Ghobadi, Ali Daryai
• Nominated, Asian Film Award
Best Editor
Valérie Loiseleux
Camerimage
2012
• Won, Bronze Frog
Main Competition
Turaj Aslani
• Nominated, Golden Frog
Main Competition
Turaj Aslani
Chicago International Film Festival
2012
• Nominated, Gold Hugo
Best International Feature
Bahman Ghobadi
San Sebastián International Film Festival
2012
• Won, Prize of the Jury
Best Cinematography
Turaj Aslani
• Nominated, Golden Seashell
Bahman Ghobadi
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
2012
• Nominated, Grand Prize
Bahman Ghobadi