Poultry Farm (2026)
Hawar
Director: Mohammadreza Ardalan
Cast: Behzad Dorani, Mehrdad Ziaei, Alireza Mehran, Yasin Toloei, Hamid Ebrahimi
A stateless Kurdish teenager named Hawar slips across the Iraqi-Iranian frontier under the radar, driven by sheer necessity to find any paying work. His journey lands him in a desolate, off-the-grid chicken facility far from Tehran’s bustle, where he toils in isolation. But when the sole colleague who showed him kindness vanishes into thin air, Hawar’s quiet desperation morphs into a relentless search for answers—one that drags him through a shadowy underbelly of abuse, dread, and systemic violence. Blending the pulse of a mystery with the weight of a social critique, *Poultry Farm* traps viewers in a claustrophobic, suffocating atmosphere to expose how easily the unseen are crushed by those in power. It’s a taut, deeply compassionate thriller—one where the real horror isn’t supernatural, but the cold, grinding cruelty of everyday existence.