10th Edition In Competition
Holy Spider
Directed by Ali Abbasi Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden 2022 117
Female journalist Rahimi travels to the Iranian holy city of Mashhad to investigate a serial killer targeting sex workers. As she draws closer to exposing his crimes, the opportunity for justice grows harder to attain when the murderer is embraced by many as a hero. Based on the true story of the ‘Spider Killer’ Saeed Hanaei, who saw himself as on a mission from God as he killed 16 women between 2000 and 2001.
Credits
- Director
- Ali Abbasi
- Writer
- Ali Abbasi, Afshin Kamran Bahrami
- Producer
- Sol Bondy, Jacob Jarek, Ali Abbasi
- Cinematographer
- Nadim Carlsen, DFF
- Production Design
- Lina Nordqvist
- Editor
- Hayedeh Safiyari, Olivia Neergaard-Holm
- Sound
- Rasmus Winther Jensen
- Music
- Martin Dirkov
- Cast
- Mehdi Bajestani
Zar Amir Ebrahimi
Arash Ashtiani
Forouzan Jamshidnejad
Mesbah Taleb
Alice Rahimi
Sina Parvaneh
Nima Akbarpour
Sara Fazilat
Firouz Agheli
