Synopsis

With only three days left to the end of the Fajr International Film Festival, a film director and his technical crew are working day and night to prepare their film for screening at the last hours of the festival.

While they are doing their best to finish the last post- production stages, they realize they have to surmount innumerable obstacles before they can achieve their end...

Cast: Khosro Shakibai, Negar Forouzande, Mohammad Reza Sharifinia, Leila Hatami, Ali Mosaffa, Naser Cheshmazar, Ferdous Kaviani, Gohar Kheirandish, Rahman Hosseini, Marzieh Boroomand


Director's View

"The editing stage represents for me that creative phase when the essence of at least a year of work has to be given its final structure or shape.

But as far as I can remember in the past 15 to 20 years - with a few exceptions (The Tenants, and my latest film The Mix) - this final stage of artistic creation has always been burdened with pressures resulting from the influences of the capital or the government decrees.

I have had to finish the film under extremely painful, exhausting and irresponsible mental set-up, and as a result I have never been able to see the finished picture with the serenity of mind, all of the films in a single, continuous screening, instead of viewing different reels at different times, not necessarily in sequential order.

Those moments were always accompanied with the hurry and hustle of preparing the final print in time for its screening at Fajr Festival, as otherwise the picture's public screening would be delayed by a couple of years, resulting in loss of capital while the print gathers dust on the shelf.

All this made film editing one of the most enervating, tormenting and at the same time absurd moments of filmmaking for me. The Mix is a reflection of my impressions and experiences of those moments." (Iran Media)