Private Project

Mask

A young girl does an unwilling cosmetic surgery on her face only for her boyfriend’s sake, but the boy does not show a positive reaction and his attitude triggers the girl’s revision of herself and her character.

  • nava rezvani
    Director
  • Nava Rezvani
    Writer
  • Nava Rezvani
    Producer
  • katayoun salaki
    Key Cast
    "mahsa"
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    14 minutes 56 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    July 1, 2021
  • Country of Origin:
    Iran, Islamic Republic of
  • Country of Filming:
    Iran, Islamic Republic of
  • Language:
    Persian
  • Shooting Format:
    digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Locarno
    Switzerland
    August 8, 2021
    World premiere
    Official selection/ pardi di domani
Director Biography - nava rezvani

Nava Rezvani was born in Iran, in 1982. she started her artistic life at the age of 13 by photography. In 2001 she started her bachelor's degree in cinema, Film Editing studies at the Art university of Tehran. Later on she received her MDL (Master of Dramatic Literature) at the same university in Tehran, in 2011 she became a professor of Applied- Scientific university ( holder of ID card) for teaching photography and editing. in 2010 she made the first her film, she made 4 documentaries and 2 short fiction films and a collection of social documentaries for television until 2020, In 2015 she became a member of Iranian Documentary Filmmakers Association of Iran Cinema House.

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Director Statement

I am an independent filmmaker living in Iran. I make social documentaries and short films that focus on the women’s issues.
Mask is my last film that deals with one of the problems of the Iranian women in today’s society.
Due to hijab codes and the pressures from the ruling system in the past 40 years, woman have been afflicted by various complexes and psychotic behaviours that manifest themselves in various forms in their conducts and thoughts. One of the most serious ones in the recent years is doing plastic surgeries in an excessive and phobic way, from body alteration to the complete craniofacial surgery of the face by using lips and cheeks prosthesis, doing nose job, injecting BOTOX, and so on. Some women overdo the surgeries to the extent that their faces lose their natural shape and become deformed and unnatural. The man’s demand cannot be ignored in this phenomenon. In many cases, they encourage the girls and women in their life to do the surgeries to keep up with the vogue.
This short film deals with this problem.