视频简介
American psychologist John Holden arrives in London to participate in a symposium aiming to expose witchcraft and devil-worship as a fraud, with attention centered on a cult run by a Julian Karswell. Debarking his plane, Holden learns that the symposium leader, Henry Harrington, has suddenly died and he is now in charge. What only the audience knows is that Harrington was clearly killed by a demon, apparently summoned by Karswell to avenge his persecution. Despite both threatening and cajoling behavior by Karswell, Holden determines to proceed, though the only cult member willing to talk about his experiences is in a prison psychiatric ward, catatonic after allegedly killing yet another cult member. However, Harrington's niece, Joanna, believes, based on her uncle's notes, that Karswell may indeed have some satanic powers derived from an ancient tome in an obscure language which he has been able to translate, and attempts to warn the skeptic Holden. Karswell's mother also attempts to warn Holden off. However, the thing which begins to most get to Holden are the occasional, but mounting, sensory and mental disturbances he begins experiencing after an encounter with Karswell, and the discovery that, during this encounter, Karswell secretly slipped a slip of parchment with a curse in runic symbols on it into Holden's belongings, a parchment identical to one Harrington recorded having had passed to him in a similar manner shortly before his death... [N.B. Holden at no point stays at the Karswell estate].。本片讲述伊朗三个不同年龄段女性的故事：1）小女孩哈娃（Fatemeh Cherag Akhar 饰）即将迎来9岁的生日，过了生日后，她就必须遮上面纱，不能和男孩们接触了。离生日还有一个小时，她决定和自己的好朋友共度这最后的时光；2）阿和（Shabnam Toloui 饰）逃离施暴的丈夫，和一群女伴参加长途自行车比赛。一路上，她的亲人、朋友接连赶来，试图阻止她叛逆的举动；3）老婆婆霍拉（Azizeh Sedighi 饰）来到一座城市内疯狂购物，并雇佣一群小孩搬运，但她似乎忘记了什么东西…… 本片荣获2000年芝加哥国际电影节最佳处女作奖、2000年釜山国际电影节新浪潮奖、2000年多伦多国际电影节发现奖第二名、2000年威尼斯电影节最佳处女作奖。。一位年轻男子在失去母亲后，与一名专门从事切除术和治疗的医生一起工作的故事。。
