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In the Land of Brothers

 In the Land of Brothers

Original name: In the Land of Brothers
English name: In the Land of Brothers
Year: 2024
Run time: 95 minutes
Language: Farsi, Dari, Hazaragi
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour
Country: Iran, France, Netherlands
Director: Alireza Ghasemi & Raha Amirfazli
Producer: Adrien Barrouillet
Cast: Hamideh Jafari, Bashir Nikzad, Mohammad Hosseini
Screenplay: Alireza Ghasemi, Raha Amirfazl
Cinematographer: Farshad Mohammadi
Editor: Hayedeh Safiyari
Sound Designer: Taco Drijfhout
Music Composer: Frédéric Alvarez
Costume Designer: Raha Dadkhah
Production Designer: Saeed Asadi, Hamed Aslani
Production Company: Furyo Film
World Sales: Alpha Violet

Festivals:

  • Karlovy Vary IFF 2024

Director’s Selected Filmography:

    Raha Amirfazli

  • 2023 Trees of Valiasr Street or: Impression (short)
  • 2021 Solar Eclipse (short)

  • Alireza Ghasemi

  • 2019 Better Than Neil Armstrong (short)
  • 2017 Lunch Time (short)

Director's Biography:

Raha Amirfazli

Raha Amirfazli is an Iranian filmmaker (1995 - Tehran) who graduated from the Art University of Tehran in Film Directing. She has made several short films that have earned her national and international screenings, including Solar Eclipse. In addition to serving as a referee in the Danish journal “Short Film Studies,” she also served as the editor-in-chief of the “24 Frames” website.

Alireza Ghasemi

Alireza Ghasemi is an Iranian Filmmaker (1990 - Tehran) who graduated in Filmmaking from the Art University of Tehran. He also spent a year as an exchange student at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg in Germany. Alireza is an alumnus of the Berlinale Talent Campus 2022 and has directed several acclaimed short films

Synopsis:

Under the shadow of the US invasion, an extended Afghan refugee family begins their new lives in Iran unaware of the ultimate price expected of them as outliers in this (un)welcoming environment: Mohammad, a young teenager and promising student; Leila, a woman isolated by geography, and Qasem who bears the weight of his family’s sacrifice.