Split Film Festival to show ‘The Locust’ from Iran-Germany

Iranian-German movie ‘The Locust’ has been selected to compete at the Split Film Festival in Croatia.

Directed by Faezeh Azizkhani, the 79-minute movie will be screened at the official competition section of the Croatian gala.

Produced by Manijeh Hekmat and Mahshid Ahangarani-Farahani, the feature film narrates the story of a writer named Hanieh who loves cinema but is not successful in her career.

She writes a screenplay based on her own life and sells it to her close friend, Pegah, after abandoning the hope of directing her semi-autobiographical screenplay.

Pegah keeps Hanieh around to advise in script meetings and cast rehearsals.

When the screenplay is ready to be read and practiced, the new director and the crew start to criticize and judge the main character of the screenplay but Hanieh can’t take it.

The cast list includes Hanieh Tavassoli, Pegah Ahangarani Farahani, Ali Mosaffa, Pedram Sharifi, Ramin Sediqi, Amaneh Aqarezakashi, Ahmad Azizkhani, Majid Azizkhani, and Dorna Madani.

‘The Locust’ went on screen at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in Scotland.

At the Split Film Festival, the international competition of feature and short films is the backbone of the program, which is open to all new, creative, personal, experimental, radical, and subversive works of all lengths and genres.

The 2022 edition of the event will take place in Split, the second-largest city in Croatia, on September 1-9.

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