THE LOCUST in Split

In the 27^th Split International Festival of New Film (September 1^st to 9^th, 2022 / Croatia), Faeze Azizkhani’s second film, THE LOCUST will be part of the main competition.

THE LOCUST has already found its place in the international scene after its screenings in SXSW 2022 and Edinburgh IFF 2022.

In ‘The Austin Chronicle’, Jenny Nulf writes, “Faeze Azizkhani’s whirlwind psychodrama The Locust is a surreal semi-autobiographical film that personifies the script doctoring process. It feeds into a cycle of anxious energy, as the film follows Hanieh (Hanie Tavassoli), a struggling writer who recently was forced to sell her feature script to her best friend after finding herself in a bind for money, unable to pay her landlords who wish to evict her…”