Let’s get updated with latest on Iranian culture

Let’s get updated with the latest events in Iranian culture and art of cinema during the past week.

Iranian short film ‘Argon’ received the best horror movie award at the 2nd edition of the Metropolis Film Festival in Italy. Written, produced and directed by Shouresh Vakili, ‘Argon’ is the first zombie movie made in Iran.

“In the city where the Zombie attacked, several people are hiding in the garage when a Zombie enters the garage,” reads as a plot summery to the flick.

The Music Film Festival in France awarded Iranian animation ‘Where the Winds Die’. Directed by Pejman Alipour, the Iranian animation received the best human rights award at the French event.

‘Where the Winds Die’ is a 13-minute animation about the chemical attack by the Iraqi regime on the Iranian town of Sardasht, in West Azarbaijan Province, in 1987. The then dictator of Iraq bombarded Sardasht with chemical weapons, killing more than 1,000 and injuring more than 8,000 civilians, many of whom were permanently disabled.

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Metropolis fest awards 1st Iranian zombie movie ‘Argon’

French film festival awards Iran’s ‘Where the Winds Die’

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