Iranian film ‘The Absent Director’ releases trailer

Iranian movie ‘The Absent Director’ has released a trailer.

Written by Naghmeh Samini and directed by Arvand Dashtaray, the 85-minute suspense/mystery film is in one continuous take.

It follows the various members of a young Iranian theater company during their secret rehearsals of Macbeth at their director’s home in Tehran, while he works with them remotely from Paris via video call.

Their dream is to submit the play to the Edinburgh Theater Festival on time, but things get complicated when their personal conflicts escalate, and their hidden agendas come to light.

The heated tensions reach the climax when a mysterious tragedy threatens to bring their work to a complete halt.

The cast list of the movie includes the director, Marene Van Holk, Azadeh Mirzaee, and Tahereh Hezaveh.

So far, the flick has been screened at the Busan International Film Festival in South Korea, the Berlin International Film Festival in Germany, and the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in the US.

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