The Wind that Shakes the Sugar Canes (2022)

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….

Released Dec. 8, 2022 85 min None+

Genres: Drama

Keywords: mdblist.has-trailer, mdblist.three-actors

Production Companies: The Documentary and Experimental Film Center (DEFC)

Country: Iran
Production Country: Iran
Languages: Persian