Fish & Cat

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A number of students have traveled to the Caspian region in order to participate in a kite-flying event during the winter solstice. Next to their camp is a small hut occupied by three cooks who work at a nearby restaurant.

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• Abed Abest as Parviz
• Mona Ahmadi as Nadia
• Ainaz Azarhoush as Parvaneh
• Nazanin Babaei as Shirin
• Mohammad Berahmani as Boy
• Siavash Cheraghipoor as Father
• Saeed Ebrahimifar as Saeed
• Alireza Esapoor as Guard
• Neda Jebraeili as Mina
• Shadi Karamroudi as Maral
• Babak Karimi as Babak
• Mohammad Reza Maleki as Jamshid
• Faraz Modiri as Kambiz
• Milad Rahimi as Shahrooz
• Arnavaz Safari as Asal
• Nima Shahrabi as Twin
• Pouya Shahrabi as Twin
• Khosrow Shahraz as Hamid
• Pedram Sharifi as Pedram
• Parinaz Tayyeb as Maryam
• Samaneh Vafaiezadeh as Ladan

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Gradually subverting a gruesome premise drawn from a real-life case of a backwoods restaurant that served human flesh, the film builds an atmosphere of tension as a menacing pair descend on a campsite where a group of college kids have gathered for a kite-flying festival. But as the camera doubles back and criss-crosses between characters in real time, subtle space-time paradoxes suggest that something bigger is going on.{{cite web|title=Fish & Cat 2013|url=http://www.nziff.co.nz/2014/auckland/fish-cat/|website=Nziff.co.nz}}

Shahram Mokri said "I like the paintings of Maurits Escher, where you can see a change in perspective in the same visual. In my film, I wanted to give a change in perspective of time in one single shot. So the idea for the film came from his paintings.{{cite news|title=Young Iran's love for horror|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/young-irans-love-for-horror/article6670931.ece|newspaper=The Hindu|date=8 December 2014|access-date=13 December 2014}}

Mokri added "Fish & Cat is a film about time. How you can make a perspective in it and break that. This film was interesting for me to make and that was because of its method of production. Insisting on narrating a story in a single shot and try to break the time which goes ahead."

Mokri wanted a kind of music that combined minimal music with the music of horror Z-movies, so he asked Kristoph Rezaee to score the film.{{cite web|title=مهندسی‌شده فیلم ساختیم / "ماهی و گربه" در گفت‌و‌گو با شهرام مکری و سعید ابراهیمی‌فر|url=http://www.khabaronline.ir/detail/343668/culture/cinema|website=Khabaronline.ir|date=11 March 2014}}

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Manohla Dargis from The New York Times wrote: " It’s a tour de force — the cinematographer is Mahmoud Kalari, who shot A Separation — and as quietly political as it is brazenly cinematic."{{cite news|last1=Dargis|first1=Manohla|title=New Directors/New Films Highlights Include 'Fish & Cat'|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/25/movies/new-directors-new-films-highlights-include-fish-cat.html?_r=0|newspaper=The New York Times|date=24 March 2014|accessdate=13 December 2014}}

Steve MacFarlane from Slant Magazine wrote: "The film is a game: Shahram Mokri challenges his viewers to grip parallel narrative threads in what feels like suspiciously real time, rather than to assemble or contextualize any metaphorical ones."{{cite web|last1=MACFARLANE|first1=STEVE|title=Fish & Cat; Film Review|date=22 March 2014|url=http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/fish-and-cat|publisher=Slant Magazine|access-date=11 December 2014}}

Alissa Simon from Variety wrote: "“A highly original, compelling feature, filmed in one long, bravura shot establishing Shahram Mokri as a distinctive talent.”{{cite web|last1=Simon|first1=Alissa|title=Venice Film Review: 'Fish & Cat'|date=18 September 2013|url=https://variety.com/2013/film/reviews/venice-film-review-fish-cat-1200615586/|website=Variety.com|access-date=12 December 2014}}

• Dubai International Film Festival 2013 - Muhr AsiaAfrica Special Jury Prize
• Fribourg International Film Festival 2014 - FIPRESCI Prize and Youth Jury Award{{cite web|title=ماهی و گربه|url=http://shahrammokri.com/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%87%DB%8C%D9%88%DA%AF%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%87.aspx|website=Shahrammokri.com|access-date=2014-12-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006104628/http://shahrammokri.com/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%87%DB%8C%D9%88%DA%AF%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%87.aspx|archive-date=2014-10-06|url-status=dead}}
• Venice Film Festival 2013 - Venice Horizons Award - Special Prize{{cite web|title=Mahi va gorbeh - Awards|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3257072/awards?ref_=tt_ql_4|publisher=IMDb}}
• 13th Lisbon International Film Festival - Best Film award
• 13th If Istanbul Independent Film Festival - Best Film Award

{{Reflist}}

• [https://fishcat.net/ The Official Website of Fish & Cat]
• {{IMDb title|3257072}}

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Category:2013 films

Category:2010s slasher films

Category:Films shot in Iran

Category:Iranian horror films

Category:Iranian slasher films

Category:One-shot films