Canada to host Iran film

Popular feature film ‘The Color of God’ (AKA ‘The Color of Paradise’) is to be screened at the 2021 Montreal World Film Festival in Canada.

Directed by Majid Majidi, the film will be screened at a special section for the selected films of previous editions.

This section will feature 20 best films of the 43 editions of the festival held in past years.

The movie revolves around the spiritual journey of a young boy and his dad.

A young blind boy comes home from boarding school to spend summer break with his family.

For him it is just returning to everything he cares about, like his grandmother, sister and the natural life of home.

However, his father is finding his son's disability too much to bear.

The movie cast list includes Hossein Mahjoub, Mohsen Ramezani, Salmeh Feizi, Elham Sharifi, Farahnaz Safari, Mohammad Rahmani-Ashtiani, Morteza Fatemi, Kamal Mirkarimi, Masoumeh Zinati, Zahra Mizani, Ahmad Aminian, Moqaddam Behboudi, Janali Khorrami, and Behzad Rafiei.

Launched in 1977, the Montreal World Film Festival (MWFF) is the only competitive Film Festival in North America recognized by the FIAPF (International Federation of Film Producers Associations).

The goal of the MWFF is to encourage cultural diversity and understanding between nations, to foster cinema of all continents by stimulating the development of quality cinema, to discover and encourage new talents, and to promote meetings between cinema professionals from around the world.

The 44th edition of the festival is slated for September 20-29, 2021.

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