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….
Director: Ebrahim Ashrafpour
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Ilia Habibi Rad as Younes |
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Mohammad Sadeghi Hassanvand as Bardi |
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Kazem Einali as Boss |
| Directing | Ebrahim Ashrafpour | Director |
| Production | Ebrahim Ashrafpour | Production Designer |
| Sound | Neda Mohseni | Sound |
| Production | Ebrahim Ashrafpour | Executive Producer |
| Camera | Hamid Dalvand | Director of Photography |
| Costume & Make-Up | Hourieh Moghaddasi | Makeup Artist |
| Editing | Parham Vafaei | Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Ebrahim Ashrafpour | Costume Designer |
| Visual Effects | Mohammad Mirvahabi | Visual Effects |
| Production | Saeed Shahsavari | Producer |
| Writing | Ebrahim Ashrafpour | Writer |