Djomeh Q&A Session

I would like to converse with those who are here in Japanese, but I can' t. It can be said that because it is difficult to express in words, I am making films." Yektapanah greeted the audience with a soft tone after the showing and audience welcomed him with applause. After working as an assistant director for Abbas Kiarostami, Djomeh is Yektapanah's feature debut. The story begins when young Afghani working on a dairy farm falls has feelings for a village girl. The circumstances of story are being told in a plain manner. He makes the point "I did not try to make a love story", but explained that a particularly Iranian philosophy is put in; "The girl with whom the Afghani falls in love is called Setareh, which means star. One must start out by acting in order to reach a star. That's why the young man talks about love while moving by car". Teruyo Nogami, who was active as Akira Kurosawa's scriptwriter, held the microphone and pointed out the beauty of blue in the film. In response to this Yektapanah said, "I entrusted the image of sky in blue." As being a big fan of Akira Kurosawa, Yektapanah was deeply touched and the face of this Iranian gentleman full of intelligence seemed to flush slightly.