METRI SHESH VA NIM / JUST 6.5

The city is brimming with drug addicts, many of whom are homeless. Samad, a member of Anti-Narcotics Police Task Force, is looking for a drug kingpin, Nasser Khakzad. After several operations, Samad manages to track him down. Nasser is ultimately executed, and Samad who has been promoted to the station chief, resigns from his post. He has come to believe all the arrests and executions in all these years, did not have any effect on society’s drug problems. The end result of all the violence has been that the number of addicts has gone from one million to 6.5 million!

SAID RUSTAJI / SAEED ROUSTAYI

Born in 1989 in Tehran, Saeed Roustaee is a graduate of Filmmaking from Soureh Film College. He has made three short films and one documentary for which he has received more than 100 awards. His debut feature film Life and A Day (2016) collected nine main awards of Tehran’s Fajr Film Festival as well as the awards from Annual Iranian Film Awards and Annual Iranian Film Critics Award. His second feature film Only 6.5 won the Audience Award for Best Film at the 2019 Fajr International Film Festival.