Behruz Shoeibi to realease new movie

Iranian director Behrouz Shoeibi is making a new movie under the working title ‘Woodpecker’.

The production of the movie began a while ago and is currently being filmed in the city of Lavasan near capital Tehran.

The cast includes a number of prominent Iranian stars like Amin Hayaee, Mahnaz Afshar, Saeed Aqakhani, Hadi Hejazifar, Sarah Bahrami and Jamshid Hashempour.

The movie is a social drama and looks at the issue of addiction from a different angle.

It is produced by Seyyed Mahmoud Razavi and its script is co-written by Hassan Torabnejad and Azita Iraee.

Shoeibi’s most recent movie, ‘Cyanide’, which follows political and social events that preceded the Islamic Revolution in Iran through the challenges that the film’s characters face, became a major hit in Iran and was screened in many national and international festivals. Cyanide’ was screened in Iran for the first time at the 34th edition of Fajr International Film Festival at which it received a warm welcome by the public.

Behrouz Shoeibi’s movie debut was ‘The Glass Agency’ (1997).

Besides acting, he has worked as an assistant director and cinema and television director.

In 2012, Shoeibi directed his first movie ‘The Corridor’ which won a Fajr International Film Festival Crystal Simorgh for Best film in the New Vision section.

He has appeared in movies, including ‘Day Break’ (2005), ‘Gold and Copper’ (2008).

Among the latest directed works of the artist is the TV series named ‘The Recluse’ (2014).

His recent appearance as an actor was in the series ‘Loneliness of Leila’ (2015).

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