Tallinn Black Nights fest to host ‘A Childless Village’

Iranian movie ‘A Childless Village’ has found a screening slot at the 26th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (aka PÖFF – Pimedate Ööde Filmifestival) in Estonia.

Directed by Reza Jamali, ‘A Childless Village’ will be screened in the Critics’ Picks Competition section of the festival.

As suggested by the title, the comedy is about a small rural village, where no children have been born for a while and all the men assume that it is the fault of the women.

Two decades ago, old filmmaker Kazem came to this remote rural village to make a documentary about the barrenness of the village women. But the village women wanted to protect their dignity, so they stole and burnt the footage.

By today, the villagers have found out that the men are sterile and there is nothing wrong with the women. With the help of his assistant, Kazem tries to record some interviews with the infertile men to unfold the truth in a new movie, but this turns out in many ways to be a Mission: Impossible.

The flick was previously screened at the 2nd Red Sea International Film Festival. 

According to earlier reports by iFilm website, Ahmad Bahrami's second directorial experience ‘The Wasteland’ is also among the Iranian participants of the festival.    

The Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival hosts filmmakers and also journalists from around the world. The festival screens around 250 features and more than 300 shorts and animations each year.

The 2022 edition of POFF will take place on November 11-27.

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