Synopsis

Despite consistent censorship, Iranian filmmakers continue to make movies that assail the repressive nature of their country.

"Unfinished Song" tackles the religious prohibition on women singing in public or being taped on record or cassette.



Cast: Ali-Reza Anoushfar, Ghogha Bayat, Hossein Soleimani, Mohsen Ghazi Moradi

Producer: Mohammad Ghassemi & Davoud Rashidi
Music: Mohammad-Reza Darvishi
Director of Photography: Hassan Pouya
Editor: Hayede Safiyari
Sound: Mehran Maslakouti & Jahangir Mirshekari

When a young musicologist named Farhad (Ali-Reza Anoushfar) decides to track down the traditional village songs sung by women, he keeps meeting up with obstacles set up by men who object to his work.

Then he hears about a mysterious female singer named Haryan, who has disappeared, and sets out to find her--a journey that ends with a startling revelation.

The subject matter is certainly provocative but "Unfinished Song" doesn't build in power as it should, as Farhad approaches the 'truth' about Haryan. Director Maziar Miri doesn't have much of a visual style and the film doesn't so much reach its conclusion as plod there. --boxoffice.com

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A young music researcher embarks on a research trip in Iran to study and collect local women's music in a period when women's singing in public or being taped on record or cassetteis is considered illegal.

The screenplay of "The Unfinished Song" was written by Kambouzia Partovi and it is the story of Farhad who goes to his hometown to collect folk music of Khorasani women. During the journey, he realizes that the only voices heard from the women are lullabies for children and laments for the death of their loved ones. But the only person who can read is a lady named Haryan, who has been missing for some time and the only person who knows about her is her son Rasool. Farhad is looking for Haryan's family and various things happen during the film.