A Childless Village

Reza Jamali / Iran

Screening

Betevé

07-11-2024 / 21:45 h.

Film Information

Year: 2022

Duration: 81

Language: VOSE

Genre: Drama

Synopsis

As the title suggests, A Childless Village (2022), takes us to a small rural village suffering from a demographic challenge. In the past, in the absence of a logical explanation for the lack of births in the town, women were blamed. Intrigued by the mystery, filmmaker Kazem went to the town and made a documentary based on this story, but it never saw the light of day. Two decades later, the true cause of the demographic problem was discovered. In his wisdom and accompanied by his assistant, the director returns to the town with a firm intention: to decrypt the truth and, this time, to change the dignity of women in the construction of history.

Director

Reza Jamali (Arbedil, Iran 1978) is a graduate filmmaker who, after a substantial output of short films presented and awarded at national and international festivals, debuted with his first feature film Old Men Never Die in 2019. His first feature film won the “Spirits of Asia Award” at the Tokyo International Film Festival and was introduced to more international festival screenings and distribution.  A Childless Village (2022) is the second film written and directed by the Iranian director.