Australian fest screening Iranian ‘Puff Puff Pass’ in Sydney

‘Puff Puff Pass’ has been competing at the 10th edition of the Iranian Film Festival Australia (IFFA).

The movie went on the Australian screens in Perth and Brisbane, is currently on screen in Sydney and will be screened in Melbourne in late June.

Written, produced and directed by Saman Salvar, the 95-minute film is about Mojtaba and Nasim, a young couple who just has a baby.

They are not rich and they reside in a poor area in the south of Tehran, yet they are relatively happy. Mojtaba sells disposable plastic dishes and Nasim makes plastic dolls at home.

Once Mojtaba gets in an accident and Nasim does all she can to save her family in his absence. But, things change when she finds out that her beloved husband is actually dealing drugs in order to make money and that he has lost his job for more than a year.

Mojtaba owes a big chunk of money to the drug lord of the region. Nasim finds herself in a difficult situation. To save her husband, she has no choice but to sell the remaining drugs herself.

Mohsen Tanabandeh, Parinaz Izadyar, Samira Hassanpour, Matin Sotoudeh, Amin Miri, Maryam Boubani, Yadollah Shademani, Fatemeh Neyshabouri, Alireza Mehran, and Mahmoud Nazaralian are among the cast members of the feature film.

The IFFA helps better familiarize the Australian audience with Iranian culture, featuring Iranian stories in movie theaters in the various cities of Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and Canberra.

The 2021 edition of the event is underway online (due to the COVID pandemic) and in-person on June 24-July 10.

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