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The Wind that Shakes the Sugar Canes

The Wind that Shakes the Sugar Canes

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 8, 2022

Runtime

1h 25m

Genres

Drama

Original Title

Baad Dar Kestzar-ha-ye Neyshekar

Production Companies

Documentary and Experimental Film Center

Director

Ebrahim Ashrafpour

Description

Younes’s father is arrested when the sugar factory boss accuses him of setting fire to the fields. When 11-year-old Younes, preparing himself for a football trial, finds out that at the night of the accident, his father, as a leading figure in the strikes and the protests, was busy at a meeting with the other workers, talking about their demands, he tries to bring the witnesses to the court. It is the starting point of his journey: a journey of forgetting his love for football and taking the pressure off his family….