Iranian filmmaker Kiarash Asadizadeh’s debut feature length movie Acrid is slated to be presented at the 37th Goteborg International Film Festival in Sweden.

The film will represent Iranian cinema at the World Competition section of this year’s festival.

Acrid that weaves an uneven tale of infidelity and disastrous relationships depicts the inner feelings of different couples.

The film has been screened in several international events so far and took the Best Emerging Actor Honor for its entire cast at the eighth Rome International Film Festival.

Born in 1981 in Tehran, Kiarash Asadizadeh started to make short films in 2001. He directed several shorts such as Very beginning of the night (2001), Video (2002),Chocolate Milkwith Ice (2003), Behind me (2004), My Right Hand Side (2004) and Two People Face to Face (2005).

Trapped by Parviz Shahbazi, Bending the Rules by Behnam Behzadi, The Past by Asghar Farhadi and Closed Curtain by Jafar Panahi and Kambuzia Partovi are other Iranian productions that will vie at the different sections of the event.

The festival is also to host a retrospective of works by Iran’s Oscar winning filmmaker Asghar Farhadi.

Goteborg International Film Festival is scheduled to take place from January 24 through February 3, 2014.

Launched in 1979, the annual festival is known as the largest film event in Scandinavia.

By Press TV

 

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