Iranian movie ‘Cinema Shahre Gheseh’ releases trailer

Iranian movie ‘Cinema Shahre Gheseh’ (Cinema City) has released a trailer.

Directed and written by Keyvan Ali-Mohammadi and Ali-Akbar Heidari, the 100-minute movie is about the love of cinema.

“Davoud is a cinema projectionist who loses his job..... He falls in love with Elham, who is the daughter of a hardcore revolutionary. Her father is strongly opposed to cinema and does not approve of their marriage,” a synopsis of the film reads.

The movie, apart from Davoud’s story, is a collection of 120 scenes from the history of Iranian cinema before the Islamic Revolution in 1979.

The cast list of the movie includes Hamed Komeili, Anahita Dargahi, Babak Karimi, Farrokh Nemati, Siavash Mofidi, Roya Mirelmi, Fariba Jeddikar, Hedieh Tehrani, Hamid-Reza Pegah, Ali Owji, and the late Jamshid Mashayekhi.

The movie has so far gone on screen at global and local events such as the Dhaka International Film Festival in Bangladesh, the New Delhi Film Festival in India, the Fajr Film Festival in Iran, and the Iranian Film Festival Australia.

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