‘No Prior Appointment’ to vie at Kazan filmfest

Iranian movie ‘No Prior Appointment’ Kazan International Muslim Film Festival in Russia.

Directed by Behrouz Shoeibi, the Iranian film will be Iran’s only representative at the feature films competition section of the 2023 edition of the event.

Produced by Mahmoud Babaee and Farabi Cinema Foundation, the social drama focuses on introducing autism in the best way to all people in society.

‘No Prior Appointment’ narrates the story of Yasaman, a woman who was six, the same age as her son, when immigrated with her family to Berlin. Now she has to come back to Iran due to her father’s death.

Her son is suffering from autism, which makes it difficult for her to travel easily. She achieves a new understanding of humanity and death during her short travel to Iran.

Mostafa Zamani, Pegah Ahangarani, Elham Korda, and Saber Abar are on the cast list of the movie.

Launched in 2005, the Kazan International Muslim Film Festival aims to provide a platform for those working in the field of culture and arts in Russia and Muslim countries to exchange their experiences, and aims to display the creative achievements of Muslim cinematographers, among others.

The motto of the Kazan festival is “To the dialogue of cultures through the culture of dialogue”.

This year’s edition of the fest is slated for September 5-9, in the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia.

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