Rafi Pitts' films have attained acclaim and award s around the globe. His first feature, Fasl-e panjom (1997), was the first Franco-Iranian co-production since the Iranian Revolution in 1979, and premiered in Venice. Sanam (2000) was hailed by French critics as the Iranian 400 Blows. In 2003, Pitts presented his controversial feature documentary, "Cinéma, de notre temps: Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty" (2003) in Locarno . It's Winter (2006) premiered in Berlin in Competition, and one year later, the Seattle International Film Festival honored Pitts with the Emerging Masters Award for his work. Born 1967 in Iran, Pitts spent his childhood in Tehran, where he lived in a basement flat underneath a post-production studio. During the war between Iran and Iraq, in 1981, he fled the country and moved to Britain. He graduated in 1991 from Harrow College - Polytechnic of Central London with a BA (Hons) Degree in Film and Photography. His first short, In Exile (1991), was presented the same year at the London International Film Festival. In the 90's, Pitts moved to Paris and worked on films by Leos Carax , Jacques Doillon and Jean-Luc Godard .
Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival 2009 for first features.Member of the jury at the Locarno International Film Festival in 2006.
In an act of vengeance, a young man, randomly kills two police officers. He escapes to the forest, where he is arrested by two other officers. The three men are surrounded by trees, the woods. They are lost in a maze, a desolate landscape, where the boundaries between the hunter and the hunted are difficult to perceive.