Italian film festival to screen Iranian ‘Immortality’

Fuori Mercato-Como Independent Film Festival in Italy has scheduled to screen Iranian feature film ‘Immortality’.

Directed by Mehdi Fard Qaderi, the Iranian flick will go on the Italian screen in March.

‘Immortality’ is Fard Qaderi's first feature film that depicts events happening on a train during a rainy night.

It tells the story of six different families on different wagons of the train, gradually unfolding their stories.

Fard Qaderi's 151-minute film experienced its first international screening last year at the Rome Film Festival in Italy.

Since then it has gone on screen at several international events, including the Lucania Film Festival in Italy, the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival in the US, the Munich International Film Festival in Germany, and the Transilvania International Film Festival in Romania.

'Immortality' has so far won awards such as the Best Drama Film award at the 2017 Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival in the US and the best film award at the Ischia International Film Festival in Italy.

It will also go on screen at the 9th edition of Newcastle International Film Festival in Britain on March 29-April 1, 2018.

Notable among the cast are Anna Nemati, Faghihe Soltani, Manouchehr Alipour, Alireza Ostadi, Soudabeh Bayzai, Maral Farjad, Atabak Naderi and Sana Norouzbeigi.

The Fuori Mercato-Como Independent Film Festival with a focus on emerging and independent filmmakers is slated for March 22-25, 2018.

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