Walnut Tree

Walnut tree – Trailer from ELI on Vimeo.

Friday, November 5, 7 PM, AC Gallery

2020, Iran, Director: Mohammad Hossein Mahdavian, Producer: Seyed Mostafa Ahmadi; 106 min.
In 1987, Sardasht, a Kurdish city on the Iran-Iraq border, is attacked by Iraqi forces with chemical weapons. After his pregnant wife and three children suffer devastating injuries, Ghader fights an inefficient bureaucracy and an overwhelmed medical system to save his family. A searing film that shows the brutal effects of chemical warfare and the personal cost of civilian casualties.