Ghasideh Golmakani’s Films to Be Reviewed at Canada Festival

TEHRAN.(Iranart) – R EGARD Short Film Festival, Canada’s most important short film rendezvous, will focus on the works of Iranian filmmaker Ghasideh Golmakani.

Based in Saguenay, Québec, and slated for March 14-18, this year’s event will screen the three latest short films by Golmakani on March 16 in a special section. The films are ‘Limbo’, ‘Online Shopping’ and ‘Horn’, ISNA reported.

Following the screenings, Golmakani will attend a discussion on her films hosted by film critic Manon Dumais. 

Limbo is a 14-minute film about a former Iraqi sniper who gets his body tattooed with the name of all the people he had killed in the wars in Iraq.

In Horn, an Iranian lady tries to find a place to park her car in Tehran to be on time for a business appointment. Several men disturb her concentration while she is driving but she ends up finding a way to confront them.

Online Shopping depicts Donia, a young girl, who wants to immigrate to continue her studies abroad. Before leaving Iran, she tries to sell her belongings online. One of the customers is a man who enters her house and behaves strangely.

Ghasideh Golmakani was born in Tehran into a family of journalists and artists. She studied history of art and cultural studies at the Paris-Sorbonne University.

She has made several short films and documentaries and won the Silver Simorgh award for best short film for Online Shopping at the 35th Fajr International Film Festival last April.

Founded in 1995, REGARD Short Film Festival is one of the leading events of its kind in North America, and annually presents around 200 national and international short films.