'World War III' is a 2022 Iranian thriller drama film co-written, directed, produced, and edited by Houman Seyyedi. The film stars Mohsen Tanabandeh, Mahsa Hejazi, Neda Jebraeili and Navid Nosrati.
The film tells the story of a worker named Shakib and played by Tanabandeh, who loses his wife and child in an earthquake and then meets a deaf girl called Ladan.Shakib finds work as a builder on a construction site which is actually the set of a film about the atrocities committed by Hitler.
Iranian film 'World War III' won two awards at the Orizzonti (Horizons) section of the 79th Venice International Film Festival in Italy.
