Monir Gheidi’s ‘Villa Residents’ arrives on home screens

Iran movie ‘Villa Residents’ (Vilaieha) is available for home viewing at the domestic market of the country.

Directed by Monir Gheidi, the movie was released at the beginning of the Sacred Defense Week in Iran.

The movie, produced by Saeed Malekan, chronicles events facing wives of Iran army commanders at the time of the Iraq-imposed war on Iran.

It is filmed in residential villas for army forces in southern Iran and set in Persian calendar years between 1362 and 1363 (over 30 years ago).

As her first feature film, Gheidi worked as a script supervisor as well as assistant director on several other films.

She also made short films such as ‘The Girl, the Boy and the Old Man’ and ‘On the Way to the Villa’.

‘Villa Residents’ has won three Chrystal Simorgh Awards at the 35th Fajr Film Festival for Best Supporting Actress (Soraya Ghasemi), Bright Talent (Monir Gheidi) and Best Visual Effects (Mehdi Ghasemi).

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