Bahman Ghobadi’s Rhino Season compete in San Sebastián Film Festival

Bahman Ghobadi Kurdish Iranian director of Rhino Season film is in competition with Greek filmmaker Costa-Gavras for winning the 60th award of San Sebastián Film Festival in Spain.

Rhino Season is an upcoming film by Iranian director Bahman Ghobadi. It is described as "a love story in context of the political changes from before the Iranian revolution to the present".

Rhino Season had the honour of being featured among latest works of directors such as Jane Campion, Steven Soderbergh, Michael Haneke, Bernardo Bertollucci, Robert Redford, and many more cinema virtuosi.

The film was screen played on September 26 and 27th at San sebastián international Film Festival and warmly received by the cinema critics and journalists.

Independent Iranian-Kurdish director Bahman Ghobadi's newest film stars cult Iranian icon Behrouz Vossoughi, Monica Bellucci, and Yilmaz Erdogan.

Based on true events, Rhino Season is the story of Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel (Behrouz Vossoughi) and Mina (Monica Bellucci)- a married couple unjustly incarcerated during Iran's Islamic Revolution. Inexplicably released after serving a ten-year sentence, Mina is informed by the authorities that Sahel is dead. Heartbroken, she leaves Iran for Istanbul — unknowingly leaving behind her very-much-alive husband, who is forced to stay in prison for another twenty years. Finally released, Sahel sets out to find his wife, the memory of whom was the only thing that had sustained him throughout his agonizing ordeal.

 PUKmedia