Canadian Denver festival to host Iranian feature ‘Pig’

Iranian feature ‘Pig’, directed by Mani Haqiqi, will be screened at the 41st Denver Film Festival in Canada.

The film is about Hassan, a filmmaker who has not been able to make any films recently, but his popular starlet can’t wait any longer and wants to leave and work with another director. His wife no longer loves him. His daughter has grown up and feels independent. His elderly mother is suffering from Alzheimer’s. A disturbingly beautiful woman tracks him everywhere he goes and wants him to give her a role in his films.

Worse yet, a murderer is killing directors of Iranian cinema in the city, but he has ignored Hassan. Now he is despondent: Isn’t he the most important filmmaker of the city? Why then doesn’t the murderer care about him? The situation becomes more intolerable when Hassan is accused of being the prime suspect in murder cases on social networks. Now he is forced to concoct a clever plan to rebuild his destroyed reputation, ifilmtv.ir reported.

The cast of the flick includes Hassan Majouni, Leila Hatami, Leili Rashidi, Parinaz Izadyar, Ali Mosaffa and Mina Jafarzadeh.

‘Pig’ has so far been screened in several international film events, including the 68th Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) and the Fifth Iranian Film Festival Cologne in Germany, the Sixth Cinemas d’iran in France, the 66th Melbourne International Film Festival in Australia, and the Eighth ‘On the Edge’ International Film Festival in Russia.

The internationally acclaimed film won the best film award at Festival Int’l du Film Grolandais in France.

The festival’s 41st edition is slated for October 31 to November 11.