Iran’s globetrotting ‘Bandar Band’ releases logo

Iranian feature film ‘Bandar Band’ by Iranian female filmmaker Manijeh Hekmat has released an official logo.

Designed by Iranian graphic designer Farhad Fozouni, ‘Bandar Band’ is to hit silver screens in Iran some time around December.

‘Bandar Band’ is about pregnant Mahla along with the other members of a music band named Bandar Band, her husband and one of their closest friends. They start their journey to Tehran from a southern province just when they have lost all they had in a flood.

They still keep their hopes alive, however, every road they take leads to a dead-end in a flood-stricken land. They intend to go to Tehran, but they wonder if it is just another turn around a vicious circle.

Among some of the global appearances of ‘Bandar Band’ include the 30th Films from the South Festival in Norway, the 3rd Hainan Island Int’l Film Festival (HIIFF) in China, the 19th Dhaka Int’l Film Festival (DIFF) in Bangladesh, the 2nd Catalyst Int’l Film Festival in Ireland, the 10th Iranian Film Festival Australia (IFFA) and the 19th Women's Film Festival Dortmund - Cologne in Germany.

It also went on screen at the 43rd Mill Valley Film Festival (MVFF) in the US, the 8th Bosphorus Film Festival in Turkey, the Hong Kong Asian Film Festival and the 2020 Toronto Int’l Film Festival (TIFF) in Canada.

‘Bandar Band’ is the recipient of the Best Film award at the International Competition: Innovation in Moving Images section of the 26th Kolkata Int’l Film Festival in India as well as the NETPAC award of the 6th Ulju Mountain Film Festival (UMFF) in South Korea.

The honorable mention of the 2021 Batumi Int’l Art-House Film Festival (BIAFF) in Georgia has also been bestowed upon Hekmat’s 2020 film production.  

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