Edinburgh festival to show ‘The Locust’

Iranian-German movie ‘The Locust’ has been selected to compete at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in Scotland.

Directed by Faezeh Azizkhani, the 79-minute movie will be screened at the Postcards from the Edge section of the gala.

Produced by Manijeh Hekmat and Mahshid Ahangarani-Farahani, the feature film narrates the story of a writer named Hanieh who loves cinema but is not successful in her career.

She writes a screenplay based on her own life and sells it to her close friend, Pegah, after abandoning the hope of directing her semi-autobiographical screenplay.

Pegah keeps Hanieh around to advise in script meetings and cast rehearsals.

When the screenplay is ready to be read and practiced, the new director and the crew start to criticize and judge the main character of the screenplay but Hanieh can’t take it.

The cast list includes Hanieh Tavassoli, Pegah Ahangarani Farahani, Ali Mosaffa, Pedram Sharifi, Ramin Sediqi, Amaneh Aqarezakashi, Ahmad Azizkhani, Majid Azizkhani, and Dorna Madani.

‘The Locust’ was internationally premiered at the South By Southwest film festival in the US.

Celebrating its 75th anniversary, the Edinburgh International Film Festival will take place in Scotland on August 12-20.

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