Minsk Int’l Film Festival Listapad honors ‘The Son’

Iranian film ‘The Son’ has succeeded to receive the Best Film Award at the 27th Minsk International Film Festival Listapad in the Belarusian capital.

Directed by Noushin Meraji, ‘The Son’ grabbed the award from the main competition section of the 2021 edition of the event, which was held on November 20-26.

Produced by Mehdi Qaderi-Fard, ‘The Son’ narrates the story of mankind’s loneliness and how one tries to get rid of it.

It is about Farid, a forty-year-old man who lives with his mother. He is very vulnerable and escapes loneliness, but in the meantime tries to prove himself independent and supportive of his mother. However, her sudden death makes Farid frustrated.

To escape from this unfamiliar situation, he clings to anyone he encounters outside home to make this loneliness bearable, but he does not know how to communicate and the situation goes from bad to worse.

Soheil Qanaddan, Nahid Haddadi, Donya Heidari, Mojtaba Fallahi, Maryam Naqib, and Atabak Naderi make the cast list of the movie.  

Meraji’s directorial debut is the winner of the Best Directing Award and the Best Actor Award at the 43rd Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF).

The flick was also screened at the 50th International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) in the Netherlands.

The Minsk International Film Festival Listapad is an annual film event which provides an educational platform for communication between cinema professionals.

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