Show Times

Apr.20
3:30pm
Apr.28
1:00pm

Venue

HOTA, Home of the Arts

Strand

World Cinema

Genre

Crime, Drama, Thriller

Language

Farsi

Country

Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Jordan, Sweden

Rating

18+

Holy Spider

Queensland Premiere

2022
118 Minutes
Rating: 18+

Winner of the Best Actress at Cannes 2022, this dramatic thriller follows a journalist who descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad to investigate a serial killer.


As the investigation and the journalist draws closer to exposing his crimes, the opportunity for justice grows harder to attain when the murderer is embraced by many as a hero. Based on the true story of the ‘Spider Killer’, this is a tense thriller reminiscent of David Fincher’s Zodiac.


Director

Ali Abbasi

Festival Selections

Winner Best Actress (Zar Amir-Ebrahimi) Cannes Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, BFI London

Cast

Zar Amir-Ebrahimi, Mehdi Bajestani, Arash Ashtiani

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