Director: Ebrahim Irajzad, Iran, 83 minutes, Cast: Parinaz Izadyar, Ali Mosaffa, Mina Sadati, Saber Abar
The Searing Summer is one of the films shortlisted for the Tiantan Award, the main Competition Section of the Beijing International Film Festival this year. Like the Bacheha-Ye aseman (or Children of Heaven) and other Iranian films we know very well, the Searing Summer also focuses on social issues in Iran. However, this time, the director Ebrahim Irajzad has focused lens on ordinary families and women in Iran and presented the struggle and strong mind of women in the male chauvinist society of the Middle East country.
Screening with: A Simple Idea + Adineh [Friday]