Ali Bagheri: Movies, Career, Theater, The Wasteland, The Accomplice, and The Silent Man

The Wasteland and Venice Film Festival

The Wasteland became one of the most important international festival successes associated with Ahmad Bahrami and Ali Bagheri.

The film was presented in the Orizzonti section of the Venice Film Festival and won the Orizzonti Award for Best Film.

It also received the FIPRESCI Prize.

These achievements significantly increased the film’s international profile.

For Bagheri, participation in a film that received major international festival recognition represented a particularly important achievement because the film depended heavily on atmosphere and naturalistic performances.

Ali Bagheri’s Performance in The Wasteland

Bagheri’s performance in The Wasteland is representative of an acting style based on restraint.

The film does not attempt to make its characters conventional movie stars.

Instead, the actors appear embedded in the environment.

Their clothes, gestures, physical movements, and interactions with the industrial landscape contribute to the sense that the characters belong to this difficult world.

This approach makes Bagheri’s performance especially effective.

The viewer is encouraged to observe the character rather than constantly being told what he feels.

That quality becomes even more pronounced in Bagheri’s later collaboration with Ahmad Bahrami.

November 5, 2026 | 7:54 pm