‘The Slaughterhouse’ wins in Wales

Iranian film ‘The Slaughterhouse’ has won the Best Foreign Feature Film award at the 2021 Wales International Film Festival (WIFF).

Directed by Abbas Amini and produced by Javad Norouzbeigi, the movie is a narrative of some contemporary social issues.

In the movie, Amir is an idle and unemployed ex-convict who becomes involved in the cover-up of a terrible crime at the local abattoir.

“It’s been a few months that Amir has been deported from France. For the sake of his father, Amir is engaged in a shocking crime,” a synopsis for the movie reads.

Hassan Pour-Shirazi, Baran Kosari, Mani Haqiqi, and Amir-Hossein Fathi are notable on the cast list of the movie.

‘The Slaughterhouse’ went on screen at a number of national and global events, including the Fajr Film Festival in Iran, the International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg in Germany, the Dhaka International Film Festival in Bangladesh, the Hong Kong Asian Film Festival in China, and the Busan International Film Festival in South Korea, where it won the Kim Jiseok award.

The WIFF screens the best of films from around the world and to connect filmmakers to the audience.

The fifth edition of the WIFF was held on September 15-17, 2021.

PR/FM