The wind that shakes the sugar canes / Baad Dar Kestzar-ha-ye Neyshekar
Iran, 85', 2022
age recommendation: 10+
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….
Ebrahim Ashrafpour
Born in 1984 in Ahvaz, Khuzestan, Ebrahim Ashrafpour is a graduate of Directing (BA) from Soureh University and Production (MA) from IRIB University. "The Wind that Shakes the Sugar Canes" is his directorial debut feature.
Cast & Crew
- direction: Ebrahim Ashrafpour
- screenplay: Ebrahim Ashrafpour
- cinematography: Hamid Dalvand
- editing: Parham Vafaei
- sound: Neda Mohseni
- cast: Ilia Habibi Rad, Mohammad, Sadeghi Hassanvand, Kazem Einali
- producer: Saeed Shahsavari
- production company: Saeed Shahsavari
- original language: Farsi
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