Rainy Seasons (Persian: فصل باران‌های موسمی, romanized: Fasl-e Bārān-hā-ye Mowsemi) is a 2010 Iranian film, directed by Majid Barzegar. Barzegar's directorial debut, it tells the story of sixteen-year-old Sina (Navid Layeghi Moghadam), who is left with an apartment to himself as his parents divorce. He finds himself in a difficult situation, hounded by neighborhood tough Masoud (Alireza Bagheri) to whom he owes money, as he allows Nahid (Marzieh Khoshtarash) to stay with him temporarily.[1] The movie was originally conceived as a short film before being developed into a full-length feature.[2]

Rainy Seasons
Film poster
Persian	فصل باران‌های موسمی
Directed by	Majid Barzegar
Written by	Majid Barzegar, Hamed Rajabi
Produced by	Manoochehr Shahsavari
Starring	Navid Layeghi Moghadam, Marzieh Khoshtarash, Elnaz Habibi
Cinematography	Amin Jafari
Distributed by	Honar va Tajrobe
Release date	January 2010 (2010-01) (FIFF)
Running time	86 minutes
Country	Iran
Language	Persian

Cast

• Navid Layeghi Moghadam as Sina
• Marzieh Khoshtarash as Nahid
• Alireza Bagheri as Masoud
• Mehran Khodaei as Ali
• Elnaz Habibi as Ali's sister

Reception

Writing for SBS Movies, Don Groves panned the film, noting "deficiencies in the screenplay" such as the "insipid, sullen protagonist plus a meandering, listless narrative and a disappointing lack of tension or engagement with the characters."[3] The film nevertheless won the Best Director award at the 2010 Dushanbe Film Festival.[4]

References

External links

• Rainy Seasons at IMDb