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“Dressage” in Sydney and Granada Festivals

The feature film “Dressage” by Pooya Badkoobeh is to be screened at Sydney Film Festival and Cines Del Sur Festival de Granada.

Badkoobeh’s first feature film, of youth rebellion against hypocrisy and moral dilemma of society, will compete at the 11th Cines Del Sur Festival de Granada in Spain, June 3-10. It also will be shown at the 65th Sydney Film Festival in Australia June 6-17, Honaronline reported on its Persian website.

The movie tells the story of a 16 year old, Golsa, and her group of bored, upper class friends, who rob a local store for fun. But things soon get a bit messy when they realize that the shop has a security camera. Golsa takes the footage but hides it at her favorite place, a horse stable.

Negar Moghaddam, Yasna Mirtahmasb and Ali Mosaffa are in the cast. 

The film is the winner of the Jury Award of the Berlin Film Festival’s Generation Section in February and best first film at the 36th Fajr International Film Festival in April. Deborah Young from the Hollywood Reporter has described the movie as clear-cut, allegorical and unsettling, Dressage might be viewed as an updated version of Crime and Punishment (1866 novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky) in which a 16-year-old girl commits a crime, gets away with it, but then finds she has lost her moral bearings.