Blue Eyes to Sell Norowzian's 'A Time In Eternity' at TIFF — SkimNews
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- Blue Eyes Film & Distribution acquired worldwide sales rights to A Time In Eternity, the latest feature from writer-director-producer Mehdi Norowzian, and will introduce the project to international buyers at the TIFF Market.
- A Time In Eternity stars Leila Hatami — known for Asghar Farhadi's Oscar-winning A Separation — as Maryam, a woman in contemporary Tehran whose search for her missing husband becomes "an increasingly haunting journey of truth, faith and self-discovery," per the official synopsis.
- The ensemble cast includes Babak Hamidian (The Old Bachelor) as Saeed, Navid Pourfaraj (Zalava, Highway Deer) as Vahid, Taranom Kermanian (Suddenly a Tree) as Sayeh, and Abbas Ghazali (Abestan, Dela, Gonjeshk), who the source notes now lives in exile and is beginning to direct his own documentaries.
- Norowzian is best known for directing the Oscar-nominated short Killing Joe and the feature Leo, which starred Joseph Fiennes, Elisabeth Shue, Dennis Hopper, and Sam Shepard.
- Both Norowzian and Blue Eyes' Michael Cowan framed the film in their statements as a "deeply personal" story about loss, hope, and resilience — one "rooted in contemporary Iran" but with "universal appeal" aimed at international audiences and festival programmers.
Why it matters: Blue Eyes is staking a TIFF Market sales push on the combination of an Oscar-nominated director, Leila Hatami's name recognition from A Separation, and a Tehran-set story explicitly built to travel internationally. The presence of a cast member now living in exile underscores the real-world weight behind the film's themes of oppression and resilience, giving festival programmers a marketing hook beyond the standard art-house pitch.
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