The Wasteland

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

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.

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Director
Ahmad Bahrami
Screenwriter
Ahmad Bahrami
Producer
Saeed Bashiri
Cast
Ali Bagheri, Farrokh Nemati, Mahdieh Nassaj, Touraj Alvand, Majid Farhang
Director of Photography
Masoud Amini Tirani
Editing
Sara Yavari
Production
Saeed Bashiri
Music
Foad Ghahremani
World sales
Persia Film Distribution
Runtime
Subtitles
Director
Ahmad Bahrami

Ahmad Bahrami holds BA in Cinema (Directing) from Soureh University. He has made few short films before directing long-length films. He has also written, directed and produced some documentaries and tele-movies for Iranian television. His second film "The Wasteland" won many awards in international film festivals including Orizzonti Best Film Award at the 77th Venice International Film Festival in 2020. "The Wastetown" is the third feature film he has written and directed.

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

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