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Zalava: Directed by Arsalan Amiri. With Navid Pourfaraj, Pourya Rahimi Sam, Hoda Zeinolabedin, Baset Rezaei. Investigating reports of demonic possessions in a remote village, a skeptical military officer finds his beliefs tested by an enigmatic exorcist.
Release Date. Iran. February 9, 2021(Fajr Film Festival) Italy. September 2021(Venice International Film Critics' Week) Canada. September 14, 2021(Toronto International Film Festival) United States. September 29, 2021(Fantastic Fest)
In 1978 Kurdistan, so close to an Iran about to change forever, the village of Zalava is cursed by demons or so the locals believe. To stop those who have been taken over by the dark ones, they use bloodletting as a form of lo-fi exorcism.
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Set in 1978, the film hones in on the inhabitants of a small village in Iran called Zalava who claim there is a demon among them. Massoud, a young police officer who investigates the claim encounters an exorcist attempting to rid the village of the demon.
Zalava: Directed by Arsalan Amiri. With Navid Pourfaraj, Pourya Rahimi Sam, Hoda Zeinolabedin, Baset Rezaei. Investigating reports of demonic possessions in a remote village, a skeptical military officer finds his beliefs tested by an enigmatic exorcist.
Zalava (2021) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Unfortunate, then, that the allegorical scare-flick Zalava, Kurdish-Iranian filmmaker Arsalan Amiri’s feature directorial debut, proves so dull and deadening, even at a brief 93 minutes. Set in 1978, on the cusp of the culture-altering Iranian Revolution, the film follows a gendarmerie sergeant named Masoud ( Navid Pourfaraj ) who is in his ...
Zalava: Directed by Arsalan Amiri. With Navid Pourfaraj, Pourya Rahimi Sam, Hoda Zeinolabedin, Baset Rezaei. Investigating reports of demonic possessions in a remote village, a skeptical military officer finds his beliefs tested by an enigmatic exorcist.
Amiri made his directorial debut in Zalava (2021), a film that was shot during the Corona Pandemic in a village near Sanandaj-Kurdistan. Zalava (2021) garnered nominations in 10 sections in Fajr Film Festival in 2021, and won Best First Feature Director, Best Script, Best Supporting Actor, and special mention for its photography.
