TEHRAN – Iran’s first Arabic-language drama “Sami” written and directed by Habib Bavi Sajed will compete in the main competition section of the 2nd Sapienza Film Festival, set to be held from March 4 to 7, in Napoli, Italy.
A production of 2021, the 75-minute film is set in Khuzestan Province, which is home to Iranian Arabs, Sami is about a man’s love for his wife and how he cannot accept the fact that she died twenty years ago, IRNA reported.
30 years after the end of the Iran-Iraq war, Sami who is bruised by the death of his wife on a mine site; is still struggling to de-mine his mine-polluted land.
Sami, an Arab man from Ahwaz in southwestern Iran, once farmed on his land. But after the war, his farmland became an unexploded ordnance. Mines that can each take a community hostage. Sami’s wife is killed by unexploded ordnance on the ground. Sami’s wife was pregnant before she was killed. Her baby is born, but one leg is amputated.
The baby girl is growing up and wants to get married. In all the years since his wife was killed, Sami has refused to remarry. Sami is trying to clear his farm of mines. Sami also has to provide a prosthetic leg for his daughter so that she can get married. All the villagers migrate to the city, but the Sami refuse to leave their home and land. Sami opposes the signs of war and builds a bird’s nest tank. Sami has no request from the government, except that he wants to clear his land of mines. To clear his land of mines, Sami travels to the Odyssey, where the spectator sees the devastating effects of war on humans, nature, and animals.
Sapienza Film Festival is a festival dedicated to the screening of feature and short films directed by filmmakers from the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern countries, all the way to East and Southeast Asia. It encompasses a cultural area stretching from the Eastern Mediterranean to the Eastern shores of the Pacific Ocean. These linguistic and cultural regions align with the academic and educational interests of the Department – the Italian Institute of Oriental Studies (ISO), which is the festival’s organizer.
The festival aims to offer the public an opportunity to discover the cultures, traditions, and societies of the participating countries, guided by the extraordinary ability of cinema to explore reality through the privileged lens of art.
The festival will collaborate with internal Sapienza structures, as well as with associations and institutions outside the University, actively engaged in cultural dissemination, promotion, and enhancement. The goal is to ensure a participatory and interdisciplinary experience for students, migrant communities, and civil society in the city.
The theme chosen for this year’s edition is “everyday life”, interpreted in all its many nuances and meanings, giving voice to stories that often find little space in traditional distribution circuits, with a focus on independent productions.
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