‘The Badger’ wins award at Fargo filmfest

Iranian feature ‘The Badger’ has won an award at the Fargo Film Festival in the US.

Kazem Mollaee’s latest directorial experience grabbed the honorary diploma of the best film at the 2021 edition of the event.

The feature film is about a woman named Soudeh who lives with her son in an old apartment.

Soudeh’s 11-year-old son, Matiar, gets kidnapped as she is about to start a second marriage.

After considerable search and effort, Soudeh decides to ask for the ransom money from her ex-husband, Peyman.

How much will this incident challenge her certainties?

Hassan Majouni, Behnoush Bakhtiyari, Reza Behboudi, Vishka Asayesh, Mehraveh Sharifinia, and Gohar Kheirandish are on the cast list of ‘The Badger’.

The Fargo Film Festival is the premier annual moving picture event in the state of North Dakota. Featuring more than 100 movies every March, the festival showcases works from all over the world and routinely programs movies that go on to receive distribution.

In recent years, the festival has hosted several Oscar-nominated filmmakers and many Oscar-nominated films.

The 21st edition of the festival was held on March 18-28, 2021.

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