The Slaughterhouse (Koshtargah)

Abbas Amini / Iran

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Director: Abbas Amini
Year: 2020
Duration: 102′
Language: VOSE | VOSC
Genre: Drama

SYNOPSIS

Amir has been recently deported from France. Unemployed and idle, he has to stay at his father’s house. For the sake of his progenitor, he gets involved in a horrifying crime which consequently leads him towards the foreign currencies black market. But he knows that the mystery should be unfolded in the last act.

BIOGRAPHY

Abbas Amini (Abadan, 1983), started shooting short films at the age of 13. In 2001 he moved to Tehran, where he worked as an assistant director, and made documentaries focusing on children’s issues and social welfare. After directing numerous short films and documentaries on social issues and the terrible consequences of the Iran-Iraq war, ten years ago he joined APCL, an association for the protection of child laborers, as a volunteer. His first and second feature films, Valderama and Hendi and Hormoz, won awards at the Berlinale and have since entered the international festival circuit.

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