The Tehran-Iranian quick movie Sampo, written and directed by Marzieh Riahi, received an award on the twenty seventh Malaga Film Festival in Malaga, Spain.
Riahi didn’t attend the occasion, so Shiva Shirani, a younger Iranian scientist who’s a postdoctoral researcher in X-ray imaging on the University of Malaga, accepted the award on his behalf.
In her message, director Riahi congratulated March 8, International Women’s Day, and added, “I hope to see the place of ladies on the planet movie business steadily strengthened.”
The 13-minute movie, made in 2023, depicts a single working lady and her mom in a low-income space of Tehran. The lady has all the time wished that her mom would take her job at her memorial service, the place her staff can be handled extra kindly.
Linda Kiani, Mariam Bouvani, Hilda Kordbache, and Hanan Azizi make up the solid of Sampo, which has been screened at a number of movie festivals in Canada, the United States, Australia, Sri Lanka, and Bulgaria. .
Riahi, a movie director graduate from the Iranian Youth Film Society (IYCS), is the editor-in-chief of Short Film News, Asia’s first web site devoted to quick movies and documentaries. Her first quick movie “Driving Lessons” was nominated for an Oscar in 2020. She is a member of the Asia and Asia-Pacific Film Promotion Network (NETPAC) and a member of the Iranian Society of Film Writers and Critics (ISFCW). ).
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