Tallinn fest to screen Iranian ‘Sheeple’

The 22nd edition of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in Estonia has set to screen Iranian feature ‘Sheeple’.

Directed by Houman Seyyedi, the flick took part at competition section of the 36th Fajr Film Festival and won 4 Crystal Simorghs for Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Sound, and Best Film from the view point of Art and experience Cinema.

‘Sheeple’ is about Shahin, a loud-mouthed fellow adopted years ago, who tries to establish his authority in a family run by the iron hand of his drug lord brother.

“Two brothers are running and making Crystal meth in a hidden laboratory in middle of nowhere of an urban jungle and they do care for the honor of their neighborhood. All of a sudden a mobile footage on their sister’s spreading everywhere and this causes some strange incidents,” a short synopsis of the flick reads.

The festival will also screen ‘Kejal’, a feature film brother by Iranian director Nima Yar. It is about a young university student who takes the hard way to look after her mother.

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.

The 22nd edition of the festival is slated for November 16–December 2, 2018.

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