Jury 2022
Rasha Larsen, Oslo, creative producer and owner of Oslo based production company Yellow Log.
Anuradha Gayanath Abeykoon, MPCT-student, Centre for Peace Studies, UiT
Hermann Greuel, Tromsø, NoPFA board-member
The Wasteland
Original title: Dashte Khamoush
Director: Ahmad Bahrami
Country: Iran
Year: 2020
Run time: 1h 43m
Screenplay: Ahmad Bahrami
Photo: Masud Amini Tirani
Cast: Touraj Alvand, Ali Bagheri, Majid Farhang, Mahdie Nassaj, Farrokh Nemati
Dialogue: Persian, Turkish, Kurdish
Producer: Saeed Bashiri
JURY’S MOTIVATION:
This year the Norwegian peace film award goes to a complete work of cinematic art with a universal perspective on day labourers in conflict with capital and power.
Through its formal and visual narrative structure, the film focuses on the essentials, the powerlessness and abandonment of workers in a changing economic situation. Through repetition, the narrative mercilessly penetrates to the core of the problem and thereby becomes a humanistic message.