Jury Picks Iranian Feature at Athens Marathon Festival

Date: 03 July 2020 - 22:11

News ID: ۸۰۲۰۴

TEHRAN (IFILM) -- Iranian movie ‘Weightlessness’ has been honored at the Athens Marathon International Film Festival in Greece.
Written and directed by Mehdi Fard-Qaderi, the film grabbed the jury award at the 2020 edition of the event.
The movie is a multi-genre film with a feminine story with the storyline centered on a wedding.
Produced by Morteza Shayesteh, the story begins the morning after a wedding ceremony when the groom disappears and not seen since the night before the wedding.
The bride, the groom’s mother and sister, and some acquaintances, which came to the wedding uninvited, are looking for the reason for his disappearance.
The next day, the group begins blaming each other as their relationships are put to the test.
Starring in the film are Bahareh Kian-Afshar, Amir-Ali Danaee, Nasim Adabi, Yasser Jafari, Jalal Fatemi, Sepideh Moradpour, and Tina Pakravan.
‘Weightlessness’ has attended the 3rd Insolito: International Horror & Fantasy Film Festival in Peru and Bulgaria’s Sofia Menar Film Festival.
Athens film festival, held on 12-21 June, will set the screenings of ‘Weightlessness’ in several cities of Greece.