Directed by Houman Seyedi • Drama • With Mohsen Tanabandeh, Mahsa Hejazi • 2022 • 107 minutes
Winner of the Orizzonti Awards for Best Film and Actor at the Venice Film Festival 2022, director Houman Seyedi's mysterious thriller/drama focuses on an anonymous day laborer (Mohsen Tanabandeh) who is hired to work on a film about the Holocaust. When his sex worker "girlfriend" disappears during filming it sets off a violent chain of events.
"Daring work like this deserves to be seen by the widest audience possible." —Variety
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Love & Diane
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