Iran noted director to kick off new film

Iranian filmmaker Ebrahim Hatamikia is to kick off his latest film 'Flight in the Levant Time' soon.

The award-winning directed plans to start shooting his latest project in June, 2017.

The film focuses on terrorists and popular Iranian actors Babak Hamidiyan and Hadi Hejazifar are to star in it.

Hatamikia studied Scriptwriting and began his career with writing screenplays for short films about the eight-year Iraq-Iran war in the 1980s.

He made his first feature film ‘Identity’ in 1986 before establishing himself as a director who addresses issues pertaining to the Iraq-Iran war and its aftermath with films such as ‘The Scout’, ‘From Karkheh to Rhine’ and ‘The Glass Agency’.

He has so far received several domestic and international awards for ‘In the Name of My Father’, ‘Red Ribbon’, ‘The Glass Agency’, ‘From Karkheh to Rhine’, ‘Mohajer (Immigrant)’, ‘The Scout’, ‘The Purple’, and ‘Che (Chamran)’.

Hatamikia’s last film ‘Bodyguard’ has been shown in many countries, including Germany, Canada, Australia, Britain, Lebanon, Syria and Afghanistan.

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