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The nine year-old effeminate boy, Shahrokh, humiliated and pushed away by his family and friends makes up his mind to adjust himself to his new identity and comes out to the people of his village. Having been through a variety of ordeal, Shahrokh, dressed in girl’s clothes, shows up in the class before his classmates.

  • Mehrdad Hasani
    Director
  • Farzad Ahmadi
    Writer
  • Hasan Mohammadi
    Producer
  • Moeid Asoudeh
    Key Cast
  • Mansour Nasiri
    Key Cast
  • Pooyan Aghababaei
    Director of Photography
  • Majid Taremi
    Edit
  • Hossein Ghourchian
    Sound designer
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    17 minutes 9 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 30, 2022
  • Production Budget:
    4,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Iran
  • Country of Filming:
    Iran
  • Language:
    Persian
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Busan International Short Film Festival
    Busan
    Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
    Grand Prix
  • 30th Raindance Film Festival
    London
    United Kingdom
    October 16, 2022
    Official Selection
  • InterFilm Berlin
    Berlin
    Germany
    November 17, 2022
    Germany Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Chicago International Children's Film Festival
    Chicago
    United States
    November 7, 2022
    Embrace Award Winner
  • 42nd FIN Atlantic International Film Festival
    Nova Scotia
    Canada
    September 19, 2022
    Official Selection
  • VIS VIENNA SHORTS FESTIVAL
    Vienna
    Austria
    Screening
  • aGLIFF /Prism Film Festival
    Austin
    United States
    Official Selection
  • CineKid
    Amesterdam
    Netherlands
    October 18, 2022
    Official Selection
  • 33rd Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival
    Honolulu
    United States
    October 15, 2022
    Official Selection
  • 27th Seattle Queer Film Festival
    Seattle
    United States
    October 17, 2022
    Official Selection
  • SEDICICORTO International Film Festival Forlì.
    Forli
    Italy
    Official Selection
  • KinoFilm Manchester International Short Film And Animation Festival
    Manchester
    United Kingdom
    Official Selection
  • 15th luststreifen Film Festival
    Basel
    Switzerland
    September 30, 2022
    Official Selection
  • Ankara International Film Festival
    Ankara
    Turkey
    November 5, 2022
    Official Selection
  • Festival du film LGBTQI de Paris Chéries-Chéris
    Paris
    France
    Official Selection
  • International Short Film Festival - Film Front
    Vojvodina
    Serbia
    Official Selection
  • MixBrasil Festival de Cultura da Diversidade
    São Paulo
    Brazil
    November 10, 2022
    Official Selection
  • Providence Children's Film Festival
    Providence
    United States
    February 18, 2023
    Official Selection
  • 38th Ljubljana LGBT Film Festival
    Ljubljana
    Slovenia
    December 18, 2022
    Official Selection
  • Seoul International Pride Film Festival
    Seoul
    Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
    November 4, 2022
    Seoul Premiere
    Official Selection
Distribution Information
  • Neshat Bagheri
    Distributor
    Country: Iran, Islamic Republic of
    Rights: All Rights
  • Gonella Production
    Sales Agent
    Country: France
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Mehrdad Hasani

Mehrdad Hassani is a writer and director, sculptor and a photographer who is from Rafsanjan (one of the desert areas of Iran). He began his artistic career in his teenage years by joining school theater groups as an actor. In his youth, he became interested in sculpture and a few years later, he held a large exhibition of his works in the city of Kerman, which was well noticed and admired by the audience. Then, at the same time, he enrolled in photography and filmmaking classes of the Iranian Youth Cinema Society, and after passing some specialized courses, he produced some short fiction films, and also participated in feature film making as a director’s consultant and costume and scenic designer. Hassani successfully completed the directing courses of Mr. Asghar Farhadi and the acting courses of Mr. Hamid Samandarian. He is also a graduate of Bachelor of Art Studies from Sooreh University of Tehran. He has made five fiction short films as a filmmaker so far, which has received more than58 appearances and 16 international awards.

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Director Statement

In my opinion, drawing political borders and favoring of an ethnic group over the others based on their place of birth are as equally absurd and immoral as drawing a line between people on the basis of their gender and sexuality. Sadly, there are still men, in Iran and many other developing countries, who view people with contrasting sexual orientations as perverts, evils, and threats to their community. The idea behind making this picture goes back to my childhood and my first year in the school when I witnessed the inability of my helpless friend next door to come to grips with his physical characteristics as a boy and the humiliation and rejection he was subject to from his parents and friends because of his girly behaviors. I couldn’t do him a good turn back then, but now I’m delighted that I can draw the people’s attention, through this picture, to the questions on whether humans are different from each other or they are inherently equal?; Whether this mount of violence is a product of the collective mind of a sick person persistently trying to ignore the truth?; Whether this amount of verbal and physical abuse is normal to happen to a human being with only different sexual tendencies?; Where this amount of aggression and bias towards such a human being is rooted from? I believe that the world is built on the awareness and I try, as much as possible, to align my steps in the light of this end.