The Wasteland

Local title
Tühermaa
Original title
Dashte khamoush
Director
Ahmad Bahrami
Country
Iran
Year
2020
Programme
Current Waves

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 has Lotfollah gather all the workers in front of his office. He wants to talk to them about the shutdown of the factory.

All that matters now to Lotfollah is to keep Sarvar unharmed, the woman he has been in love with for a long time.

Mihkel Möölman

Director
Ahmad Bahrami
Screenwriter
Ahmad Bahrami
Cast
Ali Bagheri, Farrokh Nemati, Mahdieh Nassaj, Touraj Alvand, Majid Farhang
Producer
Saeed Bashiri
DoP
Masoud Amini Tirani
Editor
Sara Yavari
Music
Foad Ghahremani
Production
Saeed Bashiri
Runtime
Language
Kurdish, Persian, Turkish
Subtitles
English
Director
Ahmad Bahrami

Filmograafia Panah (2017), Dashte Khamoush (Tühermaa, PÖFF 2021), Shahre Khamoush (The Wastetown, 2022)

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