Australian Film Week to be held in Tehran

The 2nd Australian Film Week has been scheduled to be held at Film Museum of Iran.

The opening film ‘High Ground’ is an Australian Western co-directed by Stephen Johnson and Stephen Maxwell Johnson that will be screened on August 31.

The movie is about a young aboriginal man who launches a bid to save the last of his family. He teams up with an ex-soldier to track down the most dangerous warrior in the territory.

The opening ceremony of the program will be attended by the Australian Ambassador to Iran Lyndall Sachs.

The festival will continue with screening the 2020 adventure drama ‘The Furnace’ written and directed by Roderick MacKay.

Set during the Western Australian gold rush of the 1890s, the characters of the film represent some of the Afghan cameleers who brought their camel trains to help open up the Australian outback.

The 2020 comedy-drama ‘Rams’ directed by Jeremy Sims, will be reviewed on the same day.

Set in Western Australia, ‘Rams’ is about two estranged brothers at war. Raising separate flocks of sheep descended from their family’s prized bloodline, the two men work side by side, yet are worlds apart. When a  ram is diagnosed with a rare and lethal illness, authorities order a purge of every sheep in the valley. While the other attempts to stealthily outwit the powers that be, the first one opts for angry defiance.

The comedy-drama ‘June Again’ and the psychological drama ‘Nitram’ will go on the screen on the last of the film week.

‘June Again’, directed by JJ Winlove, follows June Wilton who has precious little time to bring together her estranged children, save the family business, and rekindle an old flame.

Made by Justin Kurzel based on a screenplay by Shaun Grant, ‘Nitram’ tells a true story about an isolated young man who lives with his parents in Australia until he meets an eccentric heiress.

The film week will come to an end on September 2.

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