"After a twenty-four-year hiatus from directing, producer-director Bahman Farmanara, revered for Prince Ehtejab (1974) and renowned as a producer for Orson Welles and other notable directors, returns to directing with this black-humorous meditation on death that is simultaneously deeply moving and rousingly funny. With a deadpan demeanor reminiscent of Buster Keaton, Farmanara himself plays a formerly successful director down on his luck. Reduced to accepting a commission to film a documentary on Iranian death rituals for Japanese television, he's in a morbid frame of mind the day he discovers that the cemetery has mistakenly buried someone else in his reserved plot beside his dead wife. One dark and unlikely incident leads to another, and death seems to be stalking him until he decides to turn the tables and plan his own funeral.-Barbara Scharres.Soon to open theatrically in the Bay Area. Special Jury Prize, Montreal Film Festival; also shown at the New York and Toronto Film Festivals.