‘The Great Leap’ to vie at Brazilian fest

Iranian feature ‘The Great Leap’ has been selected to compete at the 17th edition of the Fantaspoa Film Festival in Brazil.

Directed by Karim Lakzadeh and produced by Mohammadreza Shafiee, the movie narrates the story of a man and a woman named Maryam, who along with three people left from a circus, go on an adventure to find their lost ones.

The cast of the film includes Sonia Sanjari, Pegah Ahangarani, Pedram Shafiee, Sasan Kaveh, Hamed Nejabat, Ali Saadi, Mohammad Rezapour Moqadam, Zahra Ebrahimi, Aslan Shah Ebrahimi, Meysam Damanzeh, Behzad Dorani and Noushin Karimi.

Launched since 2005, the Fantaspoa festival has been annually held to host films from around the world.

According to the official website of the festival, “Fantaspoa is the largest film festival dedicated exclusively to films of fantastic genre (fantasy, science fiction, horror and thriller) in Latin America”.

The event is scheduled for April 9-18, 2021.

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