Melbourne fest screening ‘The Wasteland’

The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) in Australia has been screening Iranian acclaimed feature ‘The Wasteland’.

The 102-minute movie, directed by Ahmad Bahrami and produced by Saeed Bashiri, is taking part in the 69th edition of the Aussie event.

Set in a remote factory producing bricks in an ancient way, many families with different ethnicities work in the factory and the boss seems to hold the key to solving their problems.

Forty-year-old Lotfollah, who has been born on-site, is the factory supervisor and acts as a go-between for the workers and the boss.

The boss asks Lotfollah to gather all the workers in front of his office to talk with them about the shutdown of the factory.

Now, the only issue that has occupied Lotfollah’s mind is to keep Sarvar, the woman he has been in love with for a long time, unharmed.

The cast list of the film includes Ali Baqeri, Farrokh Nemati, Mehdi Nassaj, Majid Farhang, and Mahdieh Nassaj.

‘The Wasteland’ received the best film awards at the Subversive Film Festival in Croatia and the Hong Kong International Film Festival.

It has also gone on screen at global events such as the Stockholm International Film Festival in Sweden and the Orizzonti Competition Section of the Venice International Film Festival in Italy, where it won the Best Film Award, FIPRESCI Award, and FAI Foundation Award.

The movie was selected among the 25 Best Asian Films of 2020 by the Asian Movie Pulse website and won Wild Dreamer Award for Best Feature Film at the 13th Subversive International Film Festival in Croatia.

Iranian feature 'The Wasteland' is currently competing at the New Horizons International Film Festival in Poland.

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