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The Wastetown

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Guilty of murdering her husband and jailed for ten years, thirty-year-old Bemani is on temporary release, as her guilt is not proved in the lack of evidence. When in jail, they took her two-year-old son and gave him to her husband's family. Looking for his ten-year-old son, she goes to a car scrapyard where her brother-in-law Ebi works. Ebi claims he is unaware of what has happened to her son. However, she finds out that Ebi has sold the child to a rich family. To find more clues, Bemani asks for help from people in the scrapyard, but each has an indecent proposal in return for giving information. Bemani is going to do whatever she can to find her son but not the way those men expect.

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Amber Wilkinson Eye for Film The tension is built upon a looping repetition, from the graceful repeated camera moves from Masud Amini Tirani and Bahrami's plotting to Foad Gharemani’s baleful score Mar 17, 2023 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Guilty of murdering her husband and jailed for ten years, thirty-year-old Bemani is on temporary release, as her guilt is not proved in the lack of evidence. When in jail, they took her two-year-old son and gave him to her husband's family. Looking for his ten-year-old son, she goes to a car scrapyard where her brother-in-law Ebi works. Ebi claims he is unaware of what has happened to her son. However, she finds out that Ebi has sold the child to a rich family. To find more clues, Bemani asks for help from people in the scrapyard, but each has an indecent proposal in return for giving information. Bemani is going to do whatever she can to find her son but not the way those men expect.
Director
Ahmad Bahrami
Producer
Reza Mohaghegh
Screenwriter
Ahmad Bahrami
Production Co
Persia Film Distribution
Genre
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Original Language
Persian
Runtime
1h 38m