Dhaka Int’l Fest to host ’23 People’

Iranian war-themed movie ‘23 People’ has been scheduled to attend the Dhaka International Film Festival in Bangladesh.

Directed by Mehdi Jafari, the film will be in competition with 36 other international works at the Spiritual Film Section of the 18th edition of the Bangladeshi film event.

The film that is set at the Iraq-Iran war time depicts the cavalry of 23 young adult Iranians who did not give in to the cruel enemy who did not grant them their freedom.

The gravity of their selflessness for their country has been the reason for a number of authors and filmmakers to develop projects about them.

In 1983, a group of teenage soldiers who had enrolled to defend their homeland got arrested by Iraqi army. Attempting to show how youngsters were unwillingly sent to the war, Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi president of the time, put on a show and masqueraded as a defender of people’s rights giving the 23 flowers and promising them to be freed soon.

His plans went in vein as the heroes of our story went on a hunger strike which cost them eight years of incarceration.

Established in 1992, the Dhaka International Film Festival is a biennial film festival in Bangladesh.  

This edition of the event is slated for January 11-19, 2020.

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