Official Selection of Tiantan Award
Vortex
Hadi Mohaghagh
Iran, Czech
Producer: Mojtaba Golparian
Screenwriter: Hadi Mohaghegh
Cinematographer:Mansour Abd-Rezaei
Editor:Farshad Abbasi
Sound Designer:Hossein Ghourchian
Composer: Mohammad Darabifar
Production Designer: Issa Kheybarmanesh
Production Company: Mojtaba Golparian
World Sales: DREAMLAB FILMS
Cast: Hadi Mohaghegh, Razieh Taheri, Mohammad Zarei, Nobar Shahi-Sogh
Synopsis
In the wilderness, a driver stops for a boy standing in the road. The youth asks the driver to take him home. During the ensuing journey, the boy tells the driver that while working in the garden he accidentally injured a snake with his sickle and needs honey to treat the wound. Once home, the driver promises to come back with the honey. However, upon his return, the driver is confronted with some shocking news that irrevocably alters the course of his life and reveals the mystical connection between nature and humanity.
Director
Hadi Mohaghegh
Hadi Mohaghegh was born in Dehdasht, southwest Iran, on July 27, 1978. He began his artistic career as a theatre actor and director in 1990. In 2000 he moved into television as an actor, designer and assistant director. In 2010, he started making films for television. Then, in 2013, he made his first feature film Bardou. His films have won many awards in national and international film festivals, notably winning the Kim Jiseok Grand Prize at the 27th Busan IFF, 2022 with Scent of Wind. That same year, the film won the Mongolfière d'Argent at the 44th 3 Continents de Nantes, being released in France to great success in 2023. Additionally, Here was selected for the Tiantan Award at the 9th Beijing International Film Festival, while Immortal was featured in the Future Forward section at the 6th edition.
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