Three Iran movies to compete at Rabat Auteur filmfest

Three Iranian films have been set to vie at the Rabat Auteur Film Festival in Morocco.

The Moroccan event is to host Reza Mirkarimi’s ‘Daughter’, ‘Valderama’ by Abbas Amini and ‘Starless Dreams’ directed by Mehrdad Oskouei.

Mirkarimi’s feature film is about a family living in the southwestern Iranian port city of Abadan.

The family’s younger daughter tells her family that she is off to Tehran to see one of her best friends, who is leaving Iran for good. Despite her father’s advice to the contrary, she took a flight to Tehran. Her disobedience ignites a series of incidents that leads to too much hassle for the family.

Farhad Aslani, Merila Zarei, Mahour Alvand and Shahrokh Foroutanian are among the cast for the globally acclaimed movie.

‘Valderama’ is about an Iranian boy in the southwestern city of Abadan whose conspicuous curly blond hair resembles the famous Colombian former football player Carlos Valderrama, so he is called by the same name. He is trying to obtain the ID card he has never been able to have.

‘Starless Dreams’ follows a group of under-18-year-old girls taken into a rehabilitation and detention center on the outskirts of Tehran for a variety of reasons ranging from drug dealing and trafficking to pick-pocketing and manslaughter.

Though bored with their incarcerated life they are, nevertheless, scared about what might happen to them once outside; as the New Year approaches, they all hope to celebrate it with their families.

The Rabat Auteur Film Festival is dedicated to the cinematic authorship, a true cinema of art and thought in all forms; even those who destroy the clichés.

The 22nd edition of the festival is to be held from October 27 to November 4, 2017.

FM/MG