The Wasteland
Film poster
Directed by	Ahmad Bahrami
Written by	Ahmad Bahrami
Produced by	Saeed Bashiri
Starring	Ali Bagheri Farrokh Nemati Mahdie Nassaj
Cinematography	Masud Amini Tirani
Edited by	Sara Yavari
Music by	Foad Ghahremani
Release date	September 3, 2020 (2020-09-03) (VIFF)
Running time	102 minutes
Country	Iran
Language	Persian

The Wasteland (Persian: دشت خاموش‎, romanized: Dashte khamoush) is a 2020 Iranian drama film directed and written by Ahmad Bahrami.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} the film premiered on September 3, 2020, at the 77th Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Orizzonti Award.‌Prize 2021 of the international jury at the Festival Nouvelles Images Persanes in Vitré (France)^{[6] [7]}

Synopsis

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 (Ali Bagheri), who has been born on-site, is the factory supervisor and acts as go-between for the workers and the boss. Boss (Farrokh Nemati) has Lotfollah gather 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 (Mahdie Nassaj) unharmed, the woman he has been in love with for a long time.

Cast

• Ali Bagheri as Lotfollah
• Farrokh Nemati as Lotfollah's Boss
• Mahdie Nassaj as Sarvar
• Sepehr Sepi as Pianist
• Touraj Alvand
• Majid Farhang
• Naser Alaghemandan
• Narges Amini
• Mohsen Yeganeh
• Razie Irani
• Shaghayegh Aghazadeh
• Mahtab Khosh Manesh
• Ahoura Bahrami
• Parsa Sobhani
• Arsha Sobhani
• Barsa Bahrami
• Mina Sarghare

Reception

References

External links

• The Wasteland at IMDb