Turkey to showcase Iranian ‘Dressage’

Iranian feature ‘Dressage’ has been scheduled to go on screen at the 8th edition of the Istanbul International Crime and Punishment Film Festival in Turkey.

Directed by Pouya Badkoubeh, ‘Dressage’ tells the story of Golsa and her friends who, motivated primarily by boredom rather than greed, decide to rob a corner shop.

While evaluating the robbery, they are dismayed to realize that they forgot to bring along the CCTV footage; so one of them must return to the crime scene and the vote falls on Golsa.

Ali Mosaffa, Shabnam Moqaddami, Houshang Tavakkoli, Alireza Sanifar, Alireza Aqakhani, and Siamak Adib are among the cast.

The Iranian feature has won Best First Film Award at the 36th Fajr International Film Festival as well as Golden Gazelle Award for Best Feature Film at the 7th Persian International Film Festival in Australia and received jury award at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) in Germany.

It has gone on screen at several global festivals, including the 8th “On the Edge” Sakhalin Film Festival in the US, the 2018 Melbourne International Film Festival in Australia, the 21st Shanghai International Film Festival in China, the 11th Granada International Film Festival in Spain, the 65th Sydney International Film Festival in Australia, the 37th Vancouver International Film Festival in Canada, the 2018 Buster Copenhagen International Film Festival for Children and Youth in Denmark, and the 16th Pyongyang International Film Festival in North Korea.

The International Crime and Punishment Film Festival aims to draw attention to the relationship between cinema and justice within an international organization and is considered to be unique as it will be held for the very first time in the world.

The 8th edition of the Turkish event is slated for November 09-15, 2018, to screen about 150 films - amongst which are feature films, documentary and shorts - in Istanbul.

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