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News ID: 82803
Publish Date : 14 September 2020 - 21:44

Iran’s Feature Granted Special Award at Venice Festival

TEHRAN (MNA) – Iranian film, ‘The Wasteland’ directed by Ahmad bahrami has won the FIPRESCI award at the 77th edition of Venice International Film Festival in Italy.
‘The Wasteland’ grabbed the FIPRESCI award handed out by the Independent Federation of Film Critics on sideline of the 77th Venice International Film Festival in Italy.
The synopsis of ‘The Wasteland’ reads, "A remote brick manufacture factory produces bricks in an ancient way. Many families with different ethnicities work in the factory and the boss seems to hold the key to solving their problems. Forty-year-old Lotfollah, who has been born on-site, is the factory supervisor and acts as go-between for the workers and the boss. Boss Lotfollah has gathered all the workers in front of his office. He wants to talk to them about the shutdown of the factory. All matters now to Lotfollah is to keep Sarvar unharmed, the woman he has been in love with for a long time.”
 The cast includes Ali Bagheri, Farrokh Nemati, Mehdi Nassaj, Majid Farhang, and Mahdieh Nassaj.
The FIPRESCI award is often presented during film festivals such as Vienna International Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, the Cannes Film Festival, the Venice Film Festival, the Warsaw Film Festival, and the International Film Festival of Kerala.
The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival is the world’s oldest film festival and one of the "Big Five” film festivals, alongside the Cannes Film Festival in France, the Berlin International Film Festival in Germany, the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada and the Sundance Film Festival in the United States.