Its Winter (DVD)

It's Winter (aka. Zemestan) is the fourth feature from acclaimed Iranian director Rafi Pitts. A man is fired from his job. Having no more options, he decides to go and find work abroad, leaving behind his wife and daughter. Months pass and his family hear no word from him. A stranger, a mechanic, arrives in town in search of work. His eyes wander to the beautiful young woman whom he hears no longer has a husband. The world expressed in this most beautiful of films is one of hunger and poverty where immigration is seen as a last hope, however illusory. It's Winter centres on a family that is separated by poverty. It sorrowfully illustrates the struggle to survive of a generation torn between wanting to leave its country yet bound by blood to home. Based on the story Safar by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi.

Interviews with Rafi Pitts