Straying somewhat from the norms or recent Iranian productions, Ahmad Bahrami presents a rather interesting mix of documentary-like and dystopian movie, which won the Orizzonti Award Best Film in Venice and the Wild Dreamer as Subversive Film Festival
“The Wasteland” screened at Subversive Film Festival
The story takes place in a remote brick manufacture factory that produces bricks in the traditional way, with the workers being mostly families of different ethnicities. Ebrahim, an Azeri, wants to marry Gohar, an Iranian, in spite of her father Mashebad’s plans for her. Mashebad wants to take his family back to their hometown and marry Gohar off to an Iranian. There is Shahu, a Kurd, who draws the ire of Ebrahim by working around the factory’s women with just his tank top on. Shahu’s dad is on death row, and his family needs money to pay off the accusers. There is Sarvar,...
“The Wasteland” screened at Subversive Film Festival
The story takes place in a remote brick manufacture factory that produces bricks in the traditional way, with the workers being mostly families of different ethnicities. Ebrahim, an Azeri, wants to marry Gohar, an Iranian, in spite of her father Mashebad’s plans for her. Mashebad wants to take his family back to their hometown and marry Gohar off to an Iranian. There is Shahu, a Kurd, who draws the ire of Ebrahim by working around the factory’s women with just his tank top on. Shahu’s dad is on death row, and his family needs money to pay off the accusers. There is Sarvar,...
- 12/8/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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