Locarno Pardi di Domani Competition Filmmaker Abtin Sarabi Preps Pair of Doc Projects (Exclusive)

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  • Author: Jamie Lang
  • August 14,2020

Locarno Pardi di Domani Competition Filmmaker Abtin Sarabi Preps Pair of Doc Projects (Exclusive) Tehran-born filmmaker Abtin Sarabi’s “Land Lot S7” featured in this year’s Pardi di domani short film competition at the Locarno Festival. Now, the director is prepping two feature length documentaries, and has shared early details of each with Variety.

“The mad proliferation of the wind gives the trees strange outlines,” reads “Land Lot S7’s” cryptic synopsis. “The wet thread of our slumber ruptures in the night. The hand plunges into the beginning of the fire. The burning entrails of the fields suddenly appear at dawn. Here man is alone. In this loneliness, the shadow of sugar cane flows into eternity.”

Following sugar cane field workers as they chop and burn their way through seemingly endless fields of reeds, the documentary-styled short features brief cut-aways to tribal mask wearing, machete wielding figures in place of the modern-day laborers. One can’t help but feel an overwhelming solitude among the workers,
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