Directed by Gian Majidi. 1h 13min<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gian Majidi is an Iranian-Finnish musician and filmmaker with roots in a Kurdish family where folk music was an essential part of everyday life. He began his musical journey with the violin, later expanding to classical piano before pursuing studies in Art History and Pedagogy at Tehran University.
Gian moved to Europe to develop his vocal technique and has since performed in both opera productions and pop music concerts. He completed the World Music Master\u2019s Program (GLOMAS) at the University of the Arts Helsinki.
As a recording artist, he has released three albums, including Mn Bo To with BaranBand (as lead singer and composer), and La Mia Rosa for piano and voice.
In addition to music, Gian is active in theatre and film. He has written plays, screenplays, and created several documentaries and short films. His debut independent feature film, The Soldier, is completed and set for release in 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director Statement<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Soldier began as a haunting image \u2014 a man running, bleeding, through the snow-covered forests of Finland. I didn\u2019t know who he was at first, but I felt his urgency, his silence, and the weight of a story trying to survive.
As an Iranian-Finnish artist with Kurdish roots, I\u2019ve lived between worlds, languages, and histories \u2014 some visible, others buried. This film is a meditation on memory, war, and the fragile threads that connect past to present. It\u2019s also a reflection on storytelling itself: Can we ever truly know another\u2019s life? And what happens when a director, like myself, dares to imagine the inner world of someone long gone?
Blending realism with poetic reconstruction, The Soldier is not just a war film. It\u2019s about the act of remembering \u2014 through music, through silence, through cinema. It\u2019s about a man who may or may not have survived, and a filmmaker who must finish the story either way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
1944. A wounded Nazi Muslim soldier runs through the forests of Finland. Decades later, a filmmaker retraces his steps to tell his story \u2014 but finds that the past doesn’t stay silent.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false},"movie_genre":[90,213],"movie_tag":[288,289,284,287],"class_list":["post-330","movie","type-movie","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","movie_genre-action","movie_genre-islamic-republic-of-iran","movie_tag-finland","movie_tag-islamic-republic-of-iran","movie_tag-the-soldier","movie_tag-war"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t