Secret Ballot
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Babak Payami
Nassim Abdi
Cyrus Abidi
Youssef Habashi
Farrokh Shojaii
Gholbahar Janghali
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
A soldier stationed on a deserted beach wakes up and discovers that it's not going to be an ordinary day: there are the elections, but nobody seems to know anything about them. Just as an electoral urn is being parachuted from the sky, a young woman disembarks on the beach. To the soldier's bafflement, it turns out that she is in charge of the mobile electoral seat and voting on the islands; therefore the soldier is obliged to obey her orders and escort her with his rifle and army jeep across the desert, where the woman intends to collect the votes. During the day, stressed by a series of absurd events, the two learn to get to know each other. At sunset, when the young woman leaves, the man realizes that the secret vote contained much more than he had ever imagined.
Director
Babak Payami
Crew
Michael Galasso
Faride Harajl
Farzad Jodat
Babak Karimi
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Mandana Masoudi
Marco Muller
Yadollah Najaki
Babak Payami
Babak Payami
Hooshangh Payami
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Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Winner of Best Feature Film at the 2002 Newport International Film Festival.
Winner of the special jury award for Best Director at the 2001 Venice International Film Festival.
Released in United States 2001
Released in United States June 2002
Released in United States November 2001
Released in United States on Video January 7, 2003
Released in United States Summer August 9, 2002
Shown at London Film Festival (World Cinema) November 7-22, 2001.
Shown at Newport International Film Festival June 4-9, 2002.
Shown at Venice International Film Festival (Venice 58 - in competition) August 29 - September 8, 2001.
Inspired by director Mohsen Makhmalbaf's short film "Testing Democracy", part of the anthology film "Teals of an Island/ Dastan Hay-e Jazireh" (Iran/2000).
Released in United States 2001 (Shown at Venice International Film Festival (Venice 58 - in competition) August 29 - September 8, 2001.)
Released in United States on Video January 7, 2003
Released in United States June 2002 (Shown at Newport International Film Festival June 4-9, 2002.)
Released in United States Summer August 9, 2002
Released in United States November 2001 (Shown at London Film Festival (World Cinema) November 7-22, 2001.)
