iFilm exclusive report on 5th day of 40th Fajr Film Festival

iFilm English TV Channel has released an exclusive report on the fifth day of the 40th Fajr Film Festival (FFF) in Iran.

‘Squad of Girls’ produced by Mohammad-Reza Mansouri and directed by Monir Qeydi and ‘Motherless’ produced by Mohammad-Reza Mesbah and Ali Owji and directed by Seyyed-Morteza Fatemi went on screen on the fifth day of the 40th FFF.

‘Squad of Girls’ revolves around the Battle of Khorramshahr of 1980. The movie shows the resistance and self-sacrifice of women in the early days of the war. By reconstructing live and documentary images of the house-to-house battle in Khorramshahr, it has created the first cinematic image of that resistance from a female perspective.

The cast list of includes Niki Karimi, Pantea Panahiha, Fereshteh Hosseini, Hoda Zeinolabedin, Sadaf Asgari, Hossein Soleimani, Mehdi Hosseininia, Yasin Masoudi, and Mohammad Seddiqi-Mehr.

In the part related to ‘Squad of Girls’, iFilm TV interviewed the scriptwriter Ebrahim Amini, the producer, the editor Hamid Najafi-Rad, and Soleimani.

‘Motherless’ is about the quiet life of Amir-Ali and his wife. By one of them insisting on a decision, their life inadvertently enters into complex trials, dilemmas, and moral hazards. The man gains nothing unless he loses things, and every decision has a price to be paid.

The cast list of includes Pardis Pourabedini, Pejman Jamshidi, Amir Aqaee, Mitra Hajjar, Owji, Bita Azizoghlou, Sara Mohammadi, and Fatemeh Mirzaee.

In the part related to ‘Motherless’, iFilm TV interviewed the director and the producer Owji.

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