Iran's ‘The Apple Day’ to vie at 2022 Berlinale

The Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) in Germany has been slated to host Iranian feature ‘The Apple Day’.

Directed by Mahmoud Ghaffari and produced by Elaheh Nobakht, the film that has recently gone through post-production stage will be premiered at the Generation Kplus section of the Berlinale 2022.

In this section of the event, ‘The Apple Day’ will be competing with 13 other works from South Korea, Portugal, Australia, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Ukraine, Colombia, Germany, Kazakhstan, the US, and Russia.

The film is about the members of an Iranian family who lovingly support each other in the face of all hardships and give room to each other to grow.

A young boy named Saeed takes apples to school and distribute them among his fellow schoolmates. Saeed’s father has a truck on which he sells apples. One day as the truck gets stollen, it gets impossible for Saeed to accomplish his mission. He must now find a way to solve the problem.

Arian Rastegar, Zhila Shahi, Mehdi Pourmousa and Khodadad Bakhshizadeh are the cast members of the flick.

This year’s Berlinale will also be a venue for Iranian short film ‘Deer’ directed by Hadi Babaeefar to compete at its Generation program.

The Berlinale Co-Production Market will also receive Iranian-French production ‘My Favorite Cake’ co-directed by Maryam Moqaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha.

The Berlin International Film Festival is “one of the largest public film festivals in the world, attracting tens of thousands of visitors from around the globe each year”, the website of the event reads.

The Generation program “presents films that matter – for young cineastes and everyone else”.

The 72nd edition of the festival will be held in-person on February 10-20, 2022.

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