Archive of films Locust / Malakh
Iran / Germany
2021, 79 min
Section:
Another Birth. Iranian Cinema Here and Now
Year: 2023
Synopsis
A film within a film, a comedy and a drama, a feature and a documentary combined. The second directorial effort from Kiarostami’s pupil Faeze Azizkhani is all of these and more besides. Two women – a director and a screenwriter – are putting together a film which is highly personal for both of them, albeit a process which arouses the animosity of their families and a society that favours men; the women’s creative endeavour is a scourge for everyone concerned. Every single word in the written screenplay is the subject of discussion, while the scene of the pre-shoot preparations becomes a battlefield of aggression blurring the boundary between reality and fiction. Yet it is this conflict that provides fertile ground for the director’s authentic female perspective.
Lorenzo Esposito
About the director
Faeze Azizkhani (1982, Tehran, Iran). Filmography: For a Rainy Day (Rouz-e mabada, 2017), The Locust (Malakh, 2021).
Contacts
Irimage
No. 30, Malek St., Shariati Ave, 1565843633, Tehran
Iran
E-mail: [email protected]
About the film
Color, DCP
Section: | Another Birth. Iranian Cinema Here and Now |
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Director: | Faeze Azizkhani |
Screenplay: | Faeze Azizkhani |
Dir. of Photography: | Alireza Barazandeh |
Music: | Hesam-eddin Salehbeig |
Sound: | Iraj Shahzadi |
Editor: | Hamidreza Barzegar, Majid Barzegar |
Art Director: | Soheil Danesh Eshraghi |
Producer: | Manijeh Hekmat, Mahshid Ahangarani Farahani |
Production: | Bamdad Film |
Coproduction: | KapFilme |
Cast: | Hanieh Tavassoli, Pegah Ahangarani Farahani, Ali Mosaffa, Pedram Sharifi, Ramin Sadighi, Amaneh Agharezakashi |
Sales: | Irimage |
Guests
Faeze Azizkhani
Film Director
Ahmad Azizkhani
Actor