Tallinn Black Nights filmfest to screen Iran movie ‘Asphyxia’

Iranian movie ‘Asphyxia’ is scheduled to compete at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in Estonia.

Directed by Fereydoun Jeyrani, the movie will be screened at the 21st edition of the Estonian event.

Iranian actors Elnaz Shakerdoust and Navid Mohammadzadeh star in the flick.

Mahya Petrosian and Poulad Kimiaee are some of the other key casts in Jeyrani’s film rated as an adult-only film.

"Masoud’s wife suffers from nervous tensions and he has to take her to the psychiatric hospital,” a brief synopsis for the film read.

Having a social theme, the script of ‘Asphyxia’ is written by Jeyrani himself.

Started in 1997, the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival has grown into one of the biggest film festivals in Northern Europe and busiest regional industry platforms, hosting more than 1000 guests and industry delegates and around 120 journalists, the official website of the event wrote.

The festival screens around 250 features and more than 300 shorts and animations and sees an attendance of 80 000 people annually.

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival will be launched on November 17-December 3, 2017.

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