Zygote (2022)

"Tokhm"

The film "Zygote" directed by Parham Sarkashiki and Saeed Mohammadi was made in collaboration with one of the founders of digital cinema in Iran "Mohammed Shirvani" and it criticizes film festivals in totalitarian regimes with a parodic expression and reminds the important point that art should be in Stand against the power and always be a reformer and a fighter. The character of this film, played by Mohammad Shirvani, is called "Peel", a creature with a human body and a camera-like head. Peel, along with a seahorse, a blind mouse and a bat, are assigned to the largest egg on the planet, which belongs to a legendary bird. The name is "Simorgh", an egg that a film festival called Fajr claims to have. The film "Zygote" tries to expose the mechanism of government festivals with a political approach.