Sadry and Yadi work at a petrol station removed from the main traffic routes since the building of a ring road. It is winter and heavy snow lies on the ground. Sadry, a former performing strongman who accidentally lost an eye, is behaving strangely. He takes off from time to time and seems obsessed with the weather. Yadi is in love with a girl from a nearby town and sends her passionate letters. Sadry and Yadi occasionally receive a visit from Orooj, the neighbourhood undertaker, their only contact with the exterior. “I often dreamt as the film began to take shape and as my dreams were often colourless and grey, I decided to shoot in black and white. (…) A Few Kilos of Dates for a Funeral is a story of ordinary people with all their qualities and defects……but it is above all a story of love

.”Screenplay Saman Salour
Photography (b/w) Touraj Aslani
Editing Saman Salour, Ali Reza Farsijani
Music Aria Azimi-Nejad
Sound Mohammad Shahverdi, Mohammad Reza Youssefi
Cast Mohsen Tanabandeh, Nader Fallah, Mohsen Namjou, Mahmoud Nazaralian
Production Zoha Films, Mahmoud Fallah, Saman Salour
Year of production 2006
Running time 85’
Format 35mmSaman Salour

Saman Salour

Saman Salour was born in Iran in 1976 and graduated in film direction at the Sureh Cinema School. He started his career as film director making films at the Iranian Young Cinema Society. He worked as assistant director and programmer for three features and between 1998 and 2004 made a number of shorts and documentaries for the television. His debut feature film From Land of Silence (2004) was screened at 12 international festivals worldwide, among them in Venice in 2004, and won the Special Jury Mention in Sofia and the FIPRESCI prize in Kiev.