Mehdi Jafari’s award-winning film will vie at the Cinema of the World section of the 20th edition of the event.
The film tells the story of a family in the city of Abadan during the first days of the 1980-88 Iraq’s imposed war on Iran.
The family, a mother and three children, stay in the city while the other families in the neighborhood are leaving.
This is the story of how hard is it to leave a city one has lived there for an age.
The website of the Dhaka Film Festival states the “DIFF is a bold expression of resistance against the decadence, vulgarity and cheap commercialism that pervades the mainstream Bangladesh film industry”.
The 20th edition of the event is scheduled for January 15-23, 2022.
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