Immortality (Persian: جاودانگی - Javdanegi) is a 2016 Iranian experimental drama film directed by Mehdi Fard Ghaderi. This movie was recorded entirely on the train. All of the footage takes place on a rainy night using a 145-minute Steadicam one-shot sequence. Immortality was filmed in fourteen nights, and the film was shot twelve times until the end. The final film is one of those twelve takes.
Plot
All the events of this movie take place on a rainy night on a train and it tells the story of the lives of six families in different train carriages, which is narrated with time shifts.
An old man is informed that he has only three more days to live, he is on a train to go to his cottage and be there when he dies. Slowly his dreams begin.
Cast
Manocher Alipour
Anna Nemati
Maral Farjad
Faghiheh Soltani
Soudabe Beizzaii
Atabak Naderi
Alireza Ostadi
Reception
First premiere Immortality was at the "Rome" Film Festival 2016 in Italy. Italian critics wrote positive reviews about the film. Then this film was then screened at the festival of Munich, Germany and Transylvania, Romania.
Immortality was screened in forty international festivals and received several international festivals from America and Italy.