Special mention for A CHILDLESS VILLAGE in Sama IFF 2025
In the 16th edition of Sama International Film Festival (October 18th to 19th, 2025 / Stockholm, Sweden), Reza Jamali’s second feature-length film, A CHILDLESS VILLAGE, received the Special Mention.
Jury’s Remarks:
Resumé for the presentation:
In a hybrid documentary-fiction comedy about a film-directing coming back to a village where he once made a criticized film about childless women; only to realize it’s the men who are infertile, due to use of pesticides. This is the film about men.
Jury’s mention:
Like Cervantes’s Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, the director character and his assistant show facets of our familiar and strange humanity- exploring women’s right and ecological issues – in this incredible joyful comedy, with outstanding cinematography, sound and cast.”