Film Festival 2023
A hapless day laborer finds himself cast in a film about the Nazi regime while hiding his girlfriend – a sex-worker fleeing her exploiters – on the set. Equal parts darkly comic and heart-wrenching, this brazen thriller won multiple awards at the 2022 Venice Film Festival.
This screening is free to AMPAS members who show their current AMPAS membership card at our box office.
This screening is free to AMPAS members who show their current AMPAS membership card at our box office.
film details
| Director: | Houman Seyyedi |
| Producers: | Houman Seyyedi |
| Screenwriter: | Houman Seyyedi, Arian Vazirdaftari, Azad Jafarian |
| Cinematographers: | Payman Shadmanfar |
| Editor: | Houman Seyyedi |
| Music: | Bamdad Afshar |
| Cast: | Mohsen Tanabandeh, Mahsa Hejazi, Neda Jebraeili, Navid Nosrati, Hossein Norouzi |
| Original Language Title: | جنگ جهانی سوم |
| Country: | Iran |
| Language: | In Persian with English subtitles |
| Year: | 2022 |
| Running Time: | 107 minutes |
| Director Filmography: | Sheeple (2018), Sound and Fury (2016), Confessions of My Dangerous Mind (2015), 13 (2014), Africa (2011) |
| Awards: | Best Film & Best Actor, Orizzonti, Venice Film Festival; Special Jury Prize, Tokyo International Film Festival |
| Primary Company: | Iranian Independents |