‘Killer Spider’ to head to Switzerland

‘Killer Spider’ has been set to compete at the 7th Iranian Film Festival Zurich in Switzerland.

Directed by Ebrahim Irajzad, ‘Killer Spider’ is a 95-minute social crime flick narrating the story of a man who wants to eradicate corruption from the face of the world.

In the movie, Saeed is a forty-year-old mason, severe and fanatical in his religious beliefs. One day his wife is accosted by a driver. Seething with rage, Saeed seeks revenge. In so doing he gets into various bruising encounters, and each time comes out the worse. He then goes on to see some women whom he thinks are the root of all evil and decides to rid society of sin by eliminating them. However, his presuppositions may not be true.

Mohsen Tanabandeh, Sareh Bayat, Shirin Yazdanbakhsh, Mahour Alvand, Mina Sadati, Hamid-Reza Hedayati, and Javad Yahyavi are among the cast members of the flick.

‘Killer Spider’ gained its national premiere at the 38th Fajr Film Festival in Iran.

The film was also presented at the Marche du Film (film market) of the Cannes Film Festival in France, the Busan International Film Festival in South Korea, and the Osaka Asian Film Festival in Japan.

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

The 2021 edition of the Iranian Film Festival Zurich is scheduled to take place in the Swiss city on May 26-June 3.

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