Ethnological Film Festival screening Iranian works

Iranian feature documentary ‘Isatis’ made by Alireza Dehqan has opened the 4th Ethnological Film Festival in Montenegro on August 30.

The event is also screening Hadi Shariati’s short film ‘Shadow of the King’.

‘Isatis’, the best-selling documentary in Iran, is a 75-minute 2021 production about the first adobe city and the second historical city in the world.

It is also a narration about ancient and historical rituals in the heart of Isatis, demonstrating the material and intangible heritage in the heart of ancient culture.

The peaceful coexistence of religions and the thousand-year-old city is narrated in the language of water, wind, earth, and fire.

The water story is narrated by the people who built aqueducts in Isatis, a town at the heart of the desert.

The story of the wind is narrated by the people who conquered the wind to survive in a hot and dry city through wind-catchers.

The story of the soil is narrated by people who constructed the world's oldest adobe city.

And the story of fire is told by Zoroastrian masters.

Meanwhile, industrial development and environmental pollution can endanger this city, like many historical cities in the world.

The film is a story of the kind dialogue between religions and the scent of faith.

The secret to perfection and peaceful permanence can be found only in harmony with nature. 

‘Shadow of the King’ is a 10-minute experimental, silent film, made in 2024.

It shows Qajar prince Zel al-Sultan, who built a castle in the Qomeshlou hunting ground in Isfahan due to his interest in hunting animals.

He inflicted a fatal blow on the environment and caused the extinction of the tiger and endangered leopard, Caspian red deer, mountain goat, and other animals.

The 4th Ethnological Film Festival in Montenegro will conclude on September 3.