A Season of Madness

•World Premiere: Woodstock Film Festival 2006

Production:	Penelope Pictures / Isotope Films
Year:	2006
Genre:	Fiction
Length:	16 min
Format:	Super 16

Review Highlights

"Beautifully shot and sensitively acted, this elegiac story is rendered note-perfect by writer/director Katja Esson ..." (Orlando Weekly)

"Vibrant ..." (Austin Chronicle)

Synopsis

Based on the short story by Hanan Al Shaykh, Season of Madness is a fairy tale gone wrong about Fatin, a young woman, who desperately attempts to escape the golden cage of her arranged marriage by feigning insanity - but her plan backfires…

Credits

Writer and Director: Katja Esson

Based on the short story by Hanan Al-Shaykh

Starring: Marjan Neshat, Maz Jobrani and Madhur Jaffrey

Producers: Chiemi Karasawa, Katja Esson and Joel Blanco

Director of photography: Martina Radwan

Sound: Richard Fleming

Editors: Shelly Westerman, Sabine Hoffman

Music: Reza Derakshani, Liz Lysinger