Documentary on environmental ruin to hit screens in Iran

Documentary on environmental destruction, ‘1444’, will hit the screens across Iran this summer.

The film ‘144’, directed by Iranian Mehdi Bagheri, brings a stark warning to inhabitants on Earth about the realities of environmental destruction.

“The film is a warning to all people across the world… In a world where many are not concerned with environment and contribute to cutting trees, littering in nature and leaving a leaky faucet, the nature is doomed to destruction,” the filmmaker said about his film.

‘1444’ opens with Iran’s beautiful nature encompassed in the Fars Mountains, Persian Gulf waters, Lorestan Lake and Tehran’s forests.

However, the beautiful scenes suddenly turn black and white, as the crows’ arrival marks environmental destruction. Traffic jam, smokes rising from factory chimneys, cigarette smoke and piled up trash in forests all contribute to environment destruction, through which the world would come to an awful destruction and end.

Finally, the film showcases environmental degradation, drought and destruction of forests in the hands of mankind himself, which, in turn, results in his own destruction.

The shooting of the film was started December 2016 and is expected to wrap up sometime at the end of July this year.

With over 10 years of experience under his belt in theater, the 25-year old filmmaker, Mehdi Bagheri, has already made two documentary films, four short stories and has attended theatrical festivals, worked with top professors and created various characters in theater.

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