Under constant pressure from her ex-husband, Nazanin should turn their child - Aban, nine years old - away from a very driven feminine taste. One day, Aban goes to the hospital thinking of undergoing life-changing surgery.
S. Abbas Taheri (Also Known: Farhad Taheri) decided to change his life and study cinema while he was working as a successful Master civil Engineer in oil plants construction. He entered Tehran University of Art by passing National university entrance exam with top grade and automatically received a grant of Iran’s National Elites Foundation. He majored in Cinema with top grade and was selected as the brilliant talent of university
As a filmmaker, Farhad Taheri started his profession from the first year of studying cinema by making short films and that has continued since then. He has made five narrative short films and six documentary short films some of which have been screened and received awards in Iranian and international festivals. The obvious point in his works is an artistic effort to find his individual style on telling local but global stories, expressing his personal ideas about life, existence, and death. Searching for beauty, happiness, and peace among huge amounts of sadness, bitterness, and anxieties is a thread which weaves together his works.
Mahdieh Toosi was born in 1982 in Iran. She graduated from the Sooreh University of Art in Film Directing. She attended the Masterclass of Filmmaking under the supervision of Abbas Kiarostami at the Karnameh Institute.
She is now teaching screenwriting at the Sooreh University of Art and participated as the scriptwriter and script consultant in short film projects.
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