German fest to vie ‘Malaria’

Iranian movie ‘Malaria’ has been scheduled to appear on silver screen at the 27th edition of Hamburg Film Festival.

The event is slated for October 13-23, 2017.

Directed by Parviz Shahbazi, ‘Malaria’ has so far participated at 28 international film festivals and has grabbed Best film, Best Actress, and Best Director Awards.

‘Malaria’, Shahbazi’s third cinematic work about Iranian youth, after ‘Deep Breath’ and ‘Trapped’, tells the story of a young woman who elopes with her boyfriend to spend time in the company of a band of street musicians.

The film stars Saghar Qanaat, Saed Soheili, Azarakhsh Farahani and Azadeh Namdari.

Filmfest Hamburg is an international film festival, the third largest of its kind in Germany (after Berlin and Munich). It shows national and international feature and documentary films in ten permanent and several annually-changing sections. 

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