Private Project

Baggage

In a dystopian world, there is a hotel on an island with special and strange rules. One night, a suspicious young man enters the hotel with a big red baggage, and the hotel owner gradually becomes more suspicious of him.
With the promise of a lot of money, the young man convinces the owner of the hotel to keep him safe in the hotel tonight but all of a sudden the Colonel shows up and reveals a secret about the young man.

  • Hamid Bahrami
    Director
  • Hamid Bahrami
    Writer
  • Farshad Rezaei
    Writer
  • Hamid Bahrami
    Producer
  • Shirin Ekhlasi
    Producer
  • Amin Mahmoudi
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Short, Student
  • Genres:
    Thriller, Western, Comedy
  • Runtime:
    19 minutes 59 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    February 20, 2023
  • Country of Origin:
    Iran, Islamic Republic of
  • Country of Filming:
    Iran, Islamic Republic of
  • Language:
    Persian
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Tehran University of Art
Director Biography - Hamid Bahrami

Hamid Bahrami was born in Rasht, Iran in 1998. He is currently a cinema student at Tehran University of Art and studied painting in artschool. From a young age, he had a passion for writing and kept a diary. At 16, he began writing poems and short stories.
While pursuing his university education, he gained experience in screenwriting by writing short screenplays. He also served as an assistant director for several short films produced by his fellow students. He eventually directed his first short film, "Baggage," with the help of some friends from university. He had to finance the film by working part-time at a wire manufacturing workshop for a year.
Currently, he is working on his next screenplay and is working to shoot it soon. His ultimate goal is to study at AFI conservatory.

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Director Statement

The concept for my film stems from my personal experience with the complexities and inconsistencies of laws in the real world. Living in a society where laws are not only numerous, but also subject to the personal biases of lawmakers, has led me to get deeply interested in the topic of law. Furthermore, even within the dwelling in which I reside, there are specific rules and regulations that I am obliged to comply with. As such, the subject of law has always been of great significance to me. It is for this reason that I have chosen to create a film that addresses the absurdity of certain laws.