Bomb, A Love Story (2018)
A film that shows how, even when faced with the darkness of death, love and hope will find a way.

Payman Moaadi, the actor of “Camp X-Ray” and “Last Knights”, is convinced that his previous experience in several big overseas projects has helped him to direct his second feature movie, “Bomb, a Love Story”.

“I didn’t intend to illustrate violence in my film otherwise I would make a film about modern violence, but at that time we witnessed a violent era, during which most of us were beaten at schools and love was only an insignificant issue in a harsh time,” Moaadi said.

It’s 1988 and, at the height of the Iran-Iraq War, Tehran is bombed relentlessly. The days that pass are full of foreboding, and yet, love, affection, hope and life itself manage to sweep away the fear of death from those surrounded by it. Love may often be difficult to comprehend, but death is a horrible certitude. ‘Bomb, a Love Story’ shows how, even when faced with the darkness of death, love and hope will find a way.




Director’s Statement:

Living to tell the tale - Every time I think about war, I also remember that I could have been one of those people living in their homes when a bomb dropped and ruined their lives. People whose passion was buried with them and their love stories left unfinished. We have to live with these pleasant thoughts. They sit in a corner of our minds, but not quietly and harmlessly. They show up every now and then for some reason and stain a delightful moment with bitterness.

I made ‘Bomb, a Love Story’ to cast such thoughts from my mind. I needed to transform them from a ‘what if’ to a reality that I myself created: a picture through which I could share my concerns. What is the point of art if not to take a load off people’s minds and souls?



‘Bomb, a Love Story’ is the story of those people who were not given the opportunity to fall in love, live, work hard for a loaf bread, and fulfil their lives as they deemed fit. The story of people caught up in the tyranny of time and place, but whose unfulfilled desires and dreams still haunt us. It is as if they have travelled thus far overburdened with all these longings, waiting for us to tell their tales, or perhaps to live them out: their simple, human, love stories.

Original title: Bomb, Yek Asheghaneh
International title: Bomb, a Love Story
Type: Fiction, Second Feature

CAST

• Leila Hatami……………….Mitra
• Payman Moaadi……………Iraj
• Siamak Ansari…………….Mr. Daneshpasand
• Habib Rezaei………………Teacher

CREW

Director : Payman Moaadi
Screenplay : Payman Moaadi
Director of Photography : Mahmoud Kalari
Editing : Bahram Dehghani
Music : Eléni Karaïndrou
Sound Designer : Iraj Shahzadi
Sound Recordist : Iraj Shahzadi
Set Designer : Mohsen Shahebrahimi
Costume designer : Sara Khaledi
Make-Up : Mehrdad Mirkiani
Visual Effects : Mohammad Lotfali

Production Manager : Mehdi Moezi
Line Producer : Vahid Moshari

Producers : Payman Moaadi & Ehsan Rasoulof

• Developed with the support of the 2011 MPA APSA Academy Film Fund an initiative of the Motion Picture Association and the Asia Pacific Screen Awards

Shooting format : Digital 2K
Camera : Arri Raw open gate, Alexa sxt
Lenses : Cooke S5

Screening format : DCP
Sound : 5.1
Ratio : 2.39:1  scope
Original version : Persian
Subtitled in : English
Running Time : 97 min
Year : 2018

Fiction – Colour – 97min – 2018 – Iran.

Festival debut:
International Premiere