TEHRAN -- The Iranian drama “Meeting Leila” will compete in the 4th Bari International Film Festival, which will be held from March 16 to 23 in Italy.
Director/actor Adel Yaraqi has helmed the film based on a screenplay by world-renowned Iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami.
“Meeting Leila” follows a young woman who demands her chain-smoking fiancé to quit smoking before their marriage. This poses a problem for her fiancé, an advertising agent for whom smoking is an integral part of her creative process.
The film will go on screen in the International Panorama section of the festival on March 20 at Bari’s Petruzzelli Theater.
The film’s star Leila Hatami, Kiarostami, and Yaraqi are scheduled to attend the screening of the film.
Over 400 movies will go on screen during the eight-day festival, which hosted over 55,000 spectators during the past edition in 2012.
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