Iran’s film wins big in Austrian fest

Acclaimed Iranian-French feature ‘Ballad of a White Cow’ has been awarded at the 2021 Der Neue Heimatfilm in Austria.

Behtash Sanaeeha and Maryam Moqaddam’s feature grabbed the award of the city of Freistadt that is a sum of 2,500 Euros at the Austrian event’s 34th edition. 

The flick narrates the story a young woman named Mina who lives alone with her deaf child while her husband had been executed for a murder charge a year ago.

Mina tries to get her life together, take good care of her child and make both ends meet. However, her life gets more sorrowful when she finds out that her husband was innocent.

‘Ballad of a White Cow’ is a coproduction by Qolamreza Mousavi and Etienne de Ricaud.

The cast list of the movie includes Moqaddam, Alireza Sanifar, Farid Qobadi, Lili Farhadpour, and Pouria Rahimi-Sam.

The film has already participated in a number of prestigious film events including, the Berlin International Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival in the US and the Melbourne International Film Festival in Australia.

Totem Films, a Paris-based international sales and co-production company, has recently purchased the rights to sell ‘Ballad of a White Cow’.

Launched in 1988, the Der Neue Heimatfilm is a 5-day event that holds to celebrate the genre of ‘New Heimatfilm’.

This year’s edition of the fest was held on August 25-29.

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