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Year of production : 1995

Director(s) : Mohsen MAKHMALBAF
Writer(s) : Mohsen MAKHMALBAF
Cast : Mirhadi TAYEBI, Azadeh ZANGENEH

Producer(s) : Abbas RANDJBAR

Mohsen Makhmalbaf gives an advertisement in the newspapers and informs those who are interested in acting that in a test some of them would be chosen for making a movie on the occasion of the hundredth year of the birth of the Cinema. On due day a lot of people throng to the testing location and each person tries to get closer to the testing location. This eagerness turns into a flood and the crowd avulses the closed door that stops them from getting close to cinema. On the other side of the opened door each of the interested talk about their eagerness in front of the camera and in front of the table of a director, who evaluates their eagerness and talent with an autocratic representation. Each of them insists that the door of the cinema has to be opened and there should be a place for everyone to enter the world of cinema. In between them two 16-year old girls from a small city are more eager than the others and they are chosen among the others. The director gives his table of power to them so that they choose their own worthy generation themselves but as soon as these two girls sit behind the direction table they change the method and in a more difficult test, compared to the previous director, decide that most of the interested are not worthy of entering the cinema. When the director removes them from behind the table of power and tells them that this was a test as well, they once again experience the bitter taste of being a regular person.