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Melody
Behrouz Sebt Rasoul
Iran/Tajikistan. 2023. 85 min

Melody teaches music at a centre for cancerous children. The thirty children are having a party at the end of autumn and ask Melody to compose a piece using the sounds of thirty different birds. She goes to her home village to record the birdsong and is helped by the mute caretaker of the family home, Mango. When they find just 20 birds, Mango makes Melody understand that only the old village singer knows where the other birds are, but bird hunters have forced him out of the village. Melody sets out to find both him and the missing birds.

BEHROUZ SEBT RASOUL

Behrouz Sebt Rasoul is an independent Iranian filmmaker, screenwriter, editor, photographer, musician and author of two novels.
Born in Tehran in 1970, though he graduated from the Karaj University of Industrial Engineering, his passion has always been the cinema.
In 2013 he founded the company ‘NAMA FILM’.
He has made three music documentaries, one wildlife documentary and 28 documentary episodes about nature, all internationally acclaimed by both professionals and the public.

DIRECTOR´S NOTE

At a time when people the world over face a plethora of problems, artists should be able to assuage pain and anxiety through art, aided by the visual and acoustic beauties of nature and birdsong. With this film I’ve tried to give people a few moments of necessary tranquility, far removed from the stresses of everyday life.