‘Villa Residents’ to go on silver screen at Hiroshima Peace Film Festival

Iran movie ‘Villa Residents’ has been scheduled to be screened at the 5th edition of Hiroshima Peace Film Festival in Japan.

The movie is to represent Iran at the Japanese film event.

The flick’s subject and theme depict Iraq-imposed war on Iran in a unique way.

The movie, produced by Saeed Malekan, chronicles events facing wives of Iran army commanders at the time of the Iraq-imposed war on Iran.

It is filmed in residential villas for army forces in southern Iran and set in Persian calendar years between 1362 and 1363 (over 30 years ago).

Co-organized by  Hiroshima Peace Film Festival voluntary organizing committee (since 2005) and Hiroshima City University Social Collaboration Project Hiroshima Peace Film Festival (HPFF) is held biennially focusing on the theme of peace and the memory of Hiroshima and making peace through film and filmmaking. 

The 2018 edition of the event is to start from August 6, in Minato-ku, Osaka, Japan.

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