Iran’s ‘Water, Wind, Dust, Bread’ is to vie at Dhaka filmfest

Iranian short documentary ‘Water, Wind, Dust, Bread’ has been slated to take part in the 2023 Dhaka International Film Festival (DIFF) in Bangladesh.

Directed by Mehdi Zamanpour-Kiasari, the 25-minute documentary will be among the 18 works to compete at the Children Film Session program of the 21st edition of the Bangladeshi fest.

The short film is a delicate narrative of the life of two children named 'Abolfazl' and 'Setayesh' who experience a different life.

'Water, Wind, Dust, Bread', which took more than a year to produce, shows life in Fahraj Village of Iran’s Yazd Province.

The film has already been shown at a number of global events, including the  Thessaloniki Documentary Festival in Greece, the Children’s Film Festival Seattle in the US, and the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, where it won the Special Jury award.

Some 200 films from 60 countries compete at the DIFF in the following categories: Asian Competition Section, Retrospective, Bangladesh Panorama, Cinema of the World, Children’s Film, Short and Independent Film, Women Filmmakers Section, and Spiritual Films Section.

The festival’s website states the “DIFF is a bold expression of resistance against the decadence, vulgarity and cheap commercialism that pervades the mainstream Bangladesh film industry”.

The 21st edition of Dhaka fest is scheduled for January 14-22, 2023.

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