TEHRAN – Two Iranian brief movies can be screened on the thirty third Cinequest Film & VR Festival (CQFF) at the moment being held in San Jose, USA.
“The Quarantine Redemption” is a musical comedy with out dialogue produced in 2023.
The story takes place in the course of the pandemic quarantine and follows a misophonia affected person who’s confined to a small house together with his noisy spouse. As he struggles to take care of his sanity and overcome, the facility of his music turns into his salvation. Through his unusual synchronicity, he discovers a path to salvation.
Misophonia is a dysfunction through which sure sounds might set off an emotional or physiological response that the particular person perceives as irrational given the circumstances. An individual with misophonia might describe the sound as “I’m going loopy after I hear it.” Their reactions vary from anger and frustration to panic and a must flee.
The animated movie ‘Historical Bolt’ depicts the journey of Iranian flagpole screws who should combat lightning and unite to outlive.
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Cinequest Film & VR Festival ends on March seventeenth.
Photo: A scene from director Milad Mohammadi’s “Historical Bolt”
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