Throne Of Wood

Synopsis

Granny, the only one-hundred-year-old woman in the village, has spent years piling up heaps of firewood in front of her house. Since the village has long been connected to natural gas, her neighbors mock her and consider her efforts pointless. Known since her youth as “the Chief” for her independent and controlling nature, Granny has now reached a hundred and refuses to end up like the other elderly women of the village—dependent on her children. Despite having more than fifty grandchildren and great-grandchildren, she now lives alone, and the most important task of her solitary years has become gathering massive stacks of wood and making her daily fire-brewed tea with them. After a fire breaks out in the house next door, the villagers pressure her to remove her woodpile for the safety of the neighborhood. But Granny is deeply attached to her wood—and giving it up is not an option.

Credits

Director

Sadegh Kazemi

Producers

Mohammad Javad Amirani