VTIFF Presents: No Date, No Signature
Host sponsor – Main Street Landing
Directed by Vahid Jalilvand
Iran | 2018 | Fiction | 104 min | Farsi w/English subtitles
Venice Biennale 2017 - Best Director & Best Actor
Synopsis: A forensic pathologist has a car accident and injures the 8-year old son of the motorcycle driver. He offers to take the child to a clinic nearby but the father refuses his help and money. A few days later, in the hospital where he works, the pathologist finds out that the little boy was brought in for an autopsy after a suspicious death. Is the pathologist responsible for the death, or did the boy die of food poisoning according to his colleague’s diagnosis?
No Date, No Signature recalls the style of Oscar-winning director Asghar Farhadi (The Separation) in this gripping high Shakespearean psychological drama of morality and class dynamics in Iranian society.
Director’s statement: “I read a quote from Rolf Dobelli that ‘Those who were bold and brave were killed before they could transfer their gene to the next generations. The rest, that is the coward and considerate, survived. We are their progenies.’”