Return (Short Film)
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| Directed by | Mostafa Gholami |
| Narrated by | Mojtaba Soltani |
| Distributed by | Daria Film |
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Running time | 1 minutes |
| Country | Iran |
| Language | Persian |
| Budget | 1,000 USD |
RETURN[1] is an Iranian short film with the social theme of organ donation, directed, produced and cwritten by Mostafa Gholami.[2] This film deals with the issues of organ donation and organ transplantation for patients who need a transplant. "Return" at the Big Syn film festival in London, it was nominated for the best film from the audience's point of view and won the special mention award in the Public Service Announcements.[3] This festival is held every year under the supervision of the United Nations. This film has been screened in 15 international festivals.[4][5]
Filmography
[edit]To provide the cultural background for organ donation by brain dead patients, Mostafa Gholami, a short film director, tries to make a simple but impressive short film about a child staring at the clock in a hospital and waiting for an organ transplantation for his father. However, as such ideas have now become commonplace and have no considerable effect on viewers, the director decides to break with the tradition and produce a film with one plan which uses no additional actors or characters.[6]
Storyline
[edit]The Return film is a short 60-second work about self-sacrifice and organ donation in the social genre. This film shows a 1 minute of the vital and critical life of a patient in need of transplantation. The clock hands show 23:59, indicating that the patient's life will end 60 seconds later; and the clock body becomes white and the image loses its brightness simultaneously while the second is rotating, which indicates despair, end of life, and a color change in the patient's life. The second hand stops at the second "45", and the image also gets blurry. Then, it suddenly gets clear and the clock body returns to its normal color and the image becomes as bright as it originally was. The second continues its path. The patient's life was saved in the final moments and the organ donation was performed successfully.[7]
Awards and nominations
[edit]- The selected of the 6th 60-second international film festival 60SIFF Pakistan.
- The Selected for the 7th First-Time Filmmaker Sessions World Short Film Festival of England.
- The selected of the 3rd World Short Film Festival under 3 minutes in Wirksworth, England.
- Reaching the final stage and being selected for the first British Big Syn International Short Film Festival.[1]
- Making it to the finals, Best Film Award nominee and Special Mention Award winner at the UK's first International Short Film Festival, Big Syn.[1]
- Making it to the semi-finals of the 3rd ESMoA California 60 Second World Film Festival.[8]
- The Selected of the 6th International Women's Short Film Festival Herat Hiwff Afghanistan.[9]
- The Selected by the 13th Grand Off World Short Film Festival in Poland.[10]
- The selected of the 8th international festival of 60-second Mister vorky films in Serbia.[11][12][13][14][15][16]
- The Selected by the 13th LABRFF Los Angeles International Festival.[17][18]
- The selected of the first Onirica World Festival ONIRICA Italy.[19]
- The selected for the first short film festival New Cinema film & Music Festival in United States.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Serbia to get 'Return'". ifilm-آیفیلم. Retrieved 22 November 2024.
- ^ "When I saw Reza Ruigiri in the nursing home, I remembered "Eight O'clock"!". sahebnews.ir. Retrieved 22 November 2024.
- ^ "Return". Big Syn Institute. Retrieved 22 November 2024.
- ^ "Brazil's RNAB Hosts Lineup of Iranian Films". newspaper Keyhan. 17 March 2022. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 November 2024.
- ^ "New item by Mister Vorky". Google Photos. Retrieved 22 November 2024.
- ^ "2019 winners & selections". Big Syn Institute. Retrieved 23 November 2024.
- ^ Gholami, Mostafa (7 December 2019), Return (Short, Drama), retrieved 23 November 2024
- ^ eugenia. "BLUE/S Screening Series - Having the Blue/s". ESMoA. Retrieved 22 November 2024.
- ^ "'Return' to race in Afghanistan". ifilm-آیفیلم. Retrieved 22 November 2024.
- ^ "'Return' to vie in Poland". ifilm-آیفیلم. Retrieved 22 November 2024.
- ^ "5 Iranian animations to be screened in Serbian film festival - Mehr News Agency". en.mehrnews.com. Retrieved 22 November 2024.
- ^ "Five Iranian shorts to compete in Mister Vorky festival". Tehran Times. 7 July 2020. Retrieved 22 November 2024.
- ^ SNN.IR. "Screening of 5 Iranian short films in Serbia". fa (in Persian). Retrieved 22 November 2024.
- ^ "5 Iranian short films will be shown in Serbia". اعتمادآنلاین (in Persian). 22 November 2024. Retrieved 22 November 2024.
- ^ "Screening of 5 Iranian short films in Serbia". خبرگزاری مهر | اخبار ایران و جهان | Mehr News Agency (in Persian). 7 July 2020. Retrieved 22 November 2024.
- ^ "Serbia to meet 'The Father of Trees'". ifilm-آیفیلم. Retrieved 22 November 2024.
- ^ "'Return' to vie at biggest Brazilian filmfest". ifilm-آیفیلم. Retrieved 22 November 2024.
- ^ "The films of Arman Qalipurdashtaki, Mostafa Gholami and Mohammad Khalili in two international festivals". shortfilmnews.com (in Persian). Retrieved 22 November 2024.
- ^ "Fiction_Return - Mostafa Gholami - Onirica Film Festival 2020". Onirica Film Festival. Retrieved 22 November 2024.
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