The Wind that Shakes the Sugar Canes
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….
Cast: Ilia Habibi Rad, Mohammad Sadeghi Hassanvand, Kazem Einali
The Wind that Shakes the Sugar Canes
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….
Creators and cast
- Directors
- Ebrahim Ashrafpour
- Producers
- Ebrahim Ashrafpour, Saeed Shahsavari
- Studio
- The Documentary and Experimental Film Center
Maturity rating
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