Mojtaba Fallahi

Roya and Babak are a young couple who intend to emigrate from Iran. Roya's encounter with an anonymous girl is the beginning of strange events in their life.

Forty-year-old Farid lives with his mother. When she suddenly dies, Farid is left all alone and, fearing loneliness, makes random acquaintances on the street and tries to invite each new acquaintance to his home. Not having sufficient communication skills, Farid repeatedly gets into unpleasant situations.

The young Iranian woman had not been expecting this kind of examination. She only wanted to renew her driver’s license, but when the officials noticed a scar on her wrist and her tattoo, they began looking at her with suspicion. Suddenly she is trapped, forced to answer personal questions and exposed to insinuations. The camera captures the growing uneasiness with clinical precision.

It tells the story of an old musician who suffers from a mental crisis after the death of his wife and has an appointment by the sea.

The series “Scarlet and Black” tells a love story set against the backdrop of history. It follows an artist whose life suddenly takes an unexpected turn, leading him down a very different path… “History is written by the victors, but this is the story of the defeated.”