Greek Film Critics Association Award goes to THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE SUGAR CANES in Olympia

In its World Premiere, Ebrahim Ashrafpour’s debut feature film, THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE SUGAR CANES, receives Greek Film Critics Association Award at the 25^th Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Young People (December 3^rd to 10^th, 2022 / Greece).

THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE SUGAR CANES portrays the destruction of children’s worlds when they are destined to grow up so quickly in the times of the protests and the lockups. In the course of forgetting a passionate love for football and struggling for his father’s release from prison, the main character of the film is led into the labyrinths of corruption and exploitation to witness how the innocent world and the big dreams have been fallen down.

Ashrafpour intelligently makes references to some of the memorable Iranian children’s films when tackling the important issue of the protests in Haft Tappeh Sugarcane Argo-Industry Company in Khuzestan Province.