‘Villa Residents’ opens in Iran cinemas

Iran movie ‘Villa Residents’ comes out in Iranian movie theaters with martyrs’ families in the country commemorated during the film’s opening.

The ceremony was held on Saturday and several families of Iranian martyrs were honored in the event.

The movie chronicles happenings to wives of Iran army commanders at the time of Iraq-Iran war. It is filmed in residential villas for army forces in southern Iran and set in Persian calendar years between1362 and 1363.

Making her feature directorial debut with ‘Villa Residents’, Ms. Monir Qeidi has worked as a script supervisor as well as assistant director on several films. She also made short films such as ‘ Girl, Boy and the Old Man’ and ‘On the Way to Villa’ as well as the documentary ‘Tehran, the City of Plane Trees’.

Saeed Malekan collaborated in the cinematic project as the movie producer. He attended the 34th Fajr Festival with ‘Life +1 Day’ and ‘My Brother Khosro’. The former has been named as the highest grossing social movie in Iran cinema history.

The movie features Iranian star actress Tanaz Tabatabaee and highly represents female actors.

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