‘No Choice’ to vie at Iranian filmfest Zurich

Iranian movie ‘No Choice’ is scheduled to be screened at the Iranian Film Festival in Zurich in Switzerland (IFFZ).

Reza Dormishian’s latest directorial experience will be among the lineup of Iranian films to be displayed at the 2022 edition of the event.

The movie is about women and their issues in society. It tells the story of three women who clash when a determined lawyer takes on the case of a homeless girl against a doctor. A 16-year-old homeless girl repeatedly works as a surrogate mother for money. A human rights attorney tries to rescue her, but inevitably faces difficulties.

The cast list of the film includes Parsa Pirouzfar, Negar Javaherian, Fatemeh Motamed-Arya, Parivash Nazariyeh, Mayam Boubani, Jaleh Olov, Babak Karimi, Homayoun Ershadi, Reza Behboudi, and Pardis Ahmadieh.

It grabbed three awards for Best Film, Best Audience choice, and Best NETPAC film at the Asiatica Film Festival in Italy and won an award at the 013 Cinecitta International Film Festival in the Netherlands.

The IFFZ aims to fill the cultural gap between Iranians and Swiss as well as the many foreigners living in Switzerland.

The event defines itself as “A Platform for presenting the Iranian culture and tradition and for building a bridge between different cultures by the means of the universal language of art and especially the 7th art, cinema”.

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