Iranian filmmaker Parviz Shahbazi’s latest production Trapped has been screened at the Deauville Asian Film Festival in France.
While Trapped represented Iranian cinema at the Competition section of the festival, Kazak director Zhanna Issabayeva has been awarded Best Film prize during the closing ceremony of Deauville Asian Film Festival held on March 8.

Shahbazi’s film competed with seven other screen creations from Asian cinema at the section.

Trapped, as a moral thriller, narrates the story of bristling relationship between two young women.

The story follows a strong and seemingly naive girl who is beginning her first year at university. The film chronicles her friendship with an outgoing girl that leads her to be trapped in dilemmas of conscience with far reaching consequences.

Shahbazi’s film was presented at the 32nd Vancouver International Film Festival held in October, 2013.

The movie also competed at the 49th Chicago film festival as well as the 2013 San Diego Asian Film Festival in the United States.

The movie also received the Best Director Award at the 31st Iran’s most important film presentation and competition, Fajr International Film Festival.

Iran’s Farabi Cinema Foundation (FCF) has the right of international distributing of Shahbazi’s film.

Trapped was named as one of Iran’s 12 preliminary nominees for the 2014 Oscar's Foreign Language Film submission.

Established in 1999, the annual Deauville Asian Film Festival focuses on Asian cinema.

The 2014 edition of the festival took place in the French city of Deauville from March 5 through 8.

By Press TV

 

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