Matarsak – Die Vogelscheuche
Feature Film, AT/IR 2025, DCP, 84 min, OmeUAfter the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire (1915–1923) many refugees landed in the northern Iranian province Gilan on the Caspian Sea. Houchang Allahyari and Babak Behdad set their poetic story here in the present day and tell of the encounter between a young musician and a mysterious young woman who “works” as a scarecrow to “silence the birds,” and likes to spend time at the Armenian cemetery to talk with the dead.
Director: Houchang Allahyari, Babak Behdad
Script: Houchang Allahyari, Babak Behdad
Cast: Zahra Miri, Zeinab Sha'bani, Mas'ood Namenisani, Navid Khoshhal, Fatemeh Tavakoli, Houchang Allahyari, Mehrzad Fekri
Camera: Sadegh Soori
Editor: Solmaz Eftekhari
Location Sound: Ahmadreza Ta'ee
Music: Saba Nedaei
Sounddesign: Hassan Mahdavi
Production Design: Houchang Allahyari, Babak Behdad
Costumes: Houchang Allahyari, Babak Behdad
Producers: Babak Behdad, Kurosch Allahyari
Production: Houchang and Kurosch Allahyari Film Company
World Premiere: Diagonale '25
Production format: digital
Script: Houchang Allahyari, Babak Behdad
Cast: Zahra Miri, Zeinab Sha'bani, Mas'ood Namenisani, Navid Khoshhal, Fatemeh Tavakoli, Houchang Allahyari, Mehrzad Fekri
Camera: Sadegh Soori
Editor: Solmaz Eftekhari
Location Sound: Ahmadreza Ta'ee
Music: Saba Nedaei
Sounddesign: Hassan Mahdavi
Production Design: Houchang Allahyari, Babak Behdad
Costumes: Houchang Allahyari, Babak Behdad
Producers: Babak Behdad, Kurosch Allahyari
Production: Houchang and Kurosch Allahyari Film Company
World Premiere: Diagonale '25
Production format: digital
