zahra ebrahimi vishki

"What time is it in your world?" Produced in the first years of the nineties, it is the first feature film of Safi Yazdanian, a documentary maker, in the romance-social genre. Although this film has faced numerous journalistic criticisms, it has not been analyzed through the lens of any theory. The value and centrality of time, as well as the duality of worlds, are depicted in this film in different ways. Due to the importance and central role of the element of time in the cinematic narrative and in order to describe and analyze the film methodically, in this research the component of parallelism is analyzed from the point of view of Gérard Genette, a French thinker.This article seeks to answer these questions; What systems and time components are represented in this film and how these components play a role in the relationship and relationship between the narratives of the film. The purpose of this research is to present a systematic model of time lapse, to show the application of hindsight and foresight components, and to explain parallelism in film sequences. The results of the research indicate; The final product of the filmmaker to show two different worlds is a film with complete and multifaceted time-lapse characteristics, which, while using a combination of time-lapse components, has the characteristic features of the parallelism component.