Director
Avazeh Shahnavaz
Production
Servat Ajami, Farid Ebrahimi, Avazeh Shahnavaz
Languages
Farsi, Persian
Year
2021
15 min, Fiction, Iran, Canada, 5.1
A young woman named Yassi, who is clearly very upset, stands in the middle of a highway holding up traffic. The situation gets worse when Sergeant Jabbari arrives on the scene to arrest her.
A young woman named Yassi stands in the middle of a highway desperately screaming. For over an hour she’s been looking for someone, jumping in front of cars and holding up traffic. Sergeant Jabbari arrives on the scene to arrest her, yet ironically, the Sharia law has placed him in a helpless position with many witnesses holding up Smartphones, recording a situation that only gets worse.
Script: Avazeh Shahnavaz
Cinematography: Salar Ardestani
Editing: Ehsan Vaseghi
Art direction: Arash Ghasemi
Sound mix: Omid Ashuri
Music: Ekwon Band, Amir Hossein Mohmmadi
Sound record: Omid Ashuri
Hair & makeup: Siamak Ahmadi
Still Photography: Majid Talebi
Script Supervisor: Ghazal Rashidi
Visual effects: Nima Momtaz
Cast: Nika Shahbazzadeh, Payam Ahmadinia, Abolfazl Abhar, Zohreh Bakhtiari, Hilda Kordbacheh
Avazeh Shahnavaz
Avazeh (Ava) Shahnavaz is an Iranian-Canadian filmmaker. Born in Tehran, Iran on Dec 23, 1989, she moved to Canada in 2007. Avazeh graduated in film production from Toronto film school and received a Bachelor of Science Degree with a Major in Psychology from the University of
Waterloo. She started her career with making documentaries about places and people, as well as producing advertising videos for various purposes. Avazeh moved back to Iran in 2018 and has since started to make short films in her home land, since Iran is the main source of inspiration for her.
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