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Route 66 fest showing Iran’s ‘The Recess’

Route 66 filmfest hosting Iranian ‘The Recess’.

The Route 66 American Short Film Festival has been screening acclaimed Iranian short film ‘The Recess’.

The 12-minute film, written, produced and directed by Navid Nikkhah-Azad, is screening at the 20th edition of the US event.

‘The Recess’ tells the story of a 17-year-old school-girl who runs away from school to watch the football match of her beloved club.

Sahar, along with three of her friends, is planning to exit the school during the break in order to watch the match between Esteghlal FC and Al Ain FC at Azadi Sports Complex.

Mozhan Kordi, Reyhaneh Naieean, Niloufar Shokouhinia, and Ghazal Khalili are on the cast list of the flick.

Kordi won the award for the best performance for her role in ‘The Recess’ at the 33rd Living Skies Student Film Festival in Canada.

The film has already toured a number of global film events, including the Oxford Film Festival and the Garden State Film Festival, both in the US, as well as the Sofia MENAR Film Festival in Bulgaria.

The Route 66 Film Festival is an annual film festival that this year kicked off on November 05 and will run through to November 15.

The festival is located in Springfield, IL and first began in November 2002.

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