Rafi Pitts Quotations

(Dealing with censorship) has become our art how to say something with certain rules.

For any film -- whether Iranian or not -- a podium like Berlin obviously is beautiful. Because it helps art exist. If you work in art house cinema, how else are you going to get people to find out about it? How else are you going to give that podium for smaller distributors to be helped and they release it. So it's a question to tell the world that the film exists.

I wanted to say that (the characters) are alive, but that they're being governed by winter.

The film is about the working class, the struggle to survive, and the emergency life that they live. There are so many reasons for this film to exist.