Z. Amir Ebrahimi, M. Bajestani and A. Abbasi from HOLY SPIDER, enchant the red carpet at European Film Awards in Reykjavik

The film is a co-production between Germany’s One Two Films, Denmark’s Profile Pictures, Sweden’s Nordisk Film Production, and France’s Why Not Productions, and Wild Bunch International. The production is 41.36% German, 31.05% Danish, 15.3% French, and 12.29% Swedish. The development of the film officially started in 2016, which was then boosted by the success of Abbasi’s 2018 Border. The filmmakers initially tried to shoot, but this was abandoned by 2019. A plan was made to shoot in Jordan in early 2020, which had to be pushed back several times because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Then, in late 2020, they decided to move the production to Turkey, where COVID restrictions were looser, but they were stalled by Turkish authorities. Abbasi has said this was because the Iranian government interfered. The production then went back to Jordan, where filming finally commenced in May 2021 and lasted 35 days.

December 11, 2022 | 12:52 am