Chennai filmfest to screen Iran’s ‘Careless Crime’

The 18th edition of the Chennai International Film Festival (CIFF) in India has been scheduled to screen Iranian feature ‘Careless Crime’.

Director by Shahram Mokri, the movie was internationally premiered at the Orizzonti section of the 77th Venice Film Festival in Italy.

Going back to forty years ago, the movie’s story starts during the uprising to overthrow the Shah’s regime in Iran.

Then, protestors set fire to movie theaters as a way of showing opposition to Western culture and burned down many cinemas.

In one tragic case, a theater was set on fire with four hundred people inside and most of them were burned alive.

Now in contemporary Iran, after forty years, four individuals also decide to burn down a movie theater.

Produced by Negar Eskanadarfar and Karnameh Institute of Arts and Culture, the flick is starring Babak Karimi, Razieh Mansouri and Abolfazl Kahani.

Dreamlab Films, the France-based international distributor under Iranian film expert Nasrin Mirshab, has acquired the international distribution rights to ‘Careless Crime’.

A total of 91 films from 53 countries will go on screen at the 18th CIFF, and ‘The Girl with A Bracelet’ by Stephane Demoustier from France will open the festival.

The organizers have arranged several workshops to be conducted by eminent personalities from the film industry and literature.

The 18th CIFF is slated for February 18-25, 2021.

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