- Winter FEAR Horror Film Competition
Year: 2023
Length: 25 mins
Country: Iran / United States
Language: Persian
Premiere: NYC Premiere
Directed by: Alireza Sharifi
Produced by: Alireza Sharifi
Starring: Amin Mahmoudi (The Motorcyclist), Mohammad Maleknia, Mahsa Akbar Abadi, Maryam Gorji, Armin Khoshnik, and Nazanin Yousefi
SEE THE FILM
Five young unmarried girls and boys travel to northern Iran, where due to restrictions on renting hotels or safe villas for singles, they are forced to rent a cabin from a motorcyclist who turns out to be a pervert.
About the Director
Alireza Sharifi is an Iranian writer and director and an MFA Film student in Directing and Screenwriting at Columbia University. A graduate of Tehran University of Art, he directed two acclaimed short films, RUSSIAN ROULETTE and VOMITING ON AN OPEN WOUND, which showcased at festivals. He has completed Oscar-winning Filmmaker Asghar Farhadi’s directing course, and his work merges Iranian drama’s emotional depth with American genre films’ stylistic elements.
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Awards
2023 Up and Coming International Film Festival (Germany) – Best International Short Film (nominee)
2023 Spooky Empire’s Horror International Film Festival – Best Screenplay (nominee)