Tehran-SANA
The feature film (Al-Hakim), directed by Basil Al-Khatib and produced by the General Film Corporation, is participating in the forty-first Fajr International Film Festival, which kicked off today in the Iranian capital, Tehran.
The film, written by Diana Jabbour, takes place in her first cinematic experience in the form of a feature film, in a remote rural town. It tells the story of a doctor who devotes his time and life to serving the people of the town, with his professional and life experiences.
The film focuses on the state of social deterioration left by the war and its repercussions on people's behavior, destinies and morals, through the wise man's confrontation with a personal crisis during his granddaughter's visit to him, to put the film recipient in front of the situation of whether he will face his crisis alone or not after all that he presented to the people of the town.
The director of the festival, Mojtaba Amini, stated that 578 films have been registered on the festival's website, and out of this number, the advisory board found 26 works from 25 countries.
He pointed out that the enemies of his country tried to disturb the peace of this cinematic event, but that their attempts failed after the wide participation from inside and outside the country was achieved.
For his part, the director of public relations for the festival, Masoud Najafi, referred to the statistics regarding the sale of tickets in the festival to see the participating works, and that they amounted to more than 6.5 thousand tickets in the first two hours of selling tickets.
It is worth noting that the movie “Al-Hakim”, co-starring both artists Duraid Lahham and Sabah Al-Jazaery, is the second cinematic collaboration between the artist Duraid Lahham and director Basil Al-Khatib, after they met with the movie “Damascus-Aleppo”.
Artists Muhammad Qanoua, Lea Mabardi, Ruba al-Halabi, Robin Issa, Assem Hawat, Rami Ahmar, Walid Haswa, Tasnim Pasha, Ibrahim Issa, Wafa Abdullah, Abdel Salam Ghabour, William Fares, William Abdoun, Aline Issa, Mugheeth Saqr, Rama Al-Zein, Ahmed Rafi, Ghada Bashour and Christine Ashi participate in the film.
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