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Sacrifice of Anna

Anna, principal dancer reapeats her leading role in « the Sleeping Beauty » ballet. But an unforeseen event disturbs her preparation; she is pregnant and must make a decision alone.

  • Ali Sattarpour
    Director
  • Ali Sattarpour
    Writer
  • Pleiade films
    Producer
  • Svetlana Semusheva
    Key Cast
  • Xavier Dumont
    Key Cast
  • Elodie Grech
    Key Cast
  • Armelle Bérengière
    Key Cast
  • Luca Casavola
    Director of Photography
  • Elo Massing
    Music
  • Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovsky
    Music
  • Robert Kopec
    Sound
  • Martha Rossi
    Wardrobe
  • Ali Sattarpour
    Editor
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Le Sacrifice d'Anna
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Drama
  • Runtime:
    16 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    August 31, 2018
  • Production Budget:
    3,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    France
  • Country of Filming:
    France
  • Language:
    English, French
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital DSLR
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Search light short film festival
    New Dehli
    October 2, 2013
    Indian premiere
    Best film & Best actress
  • West virginia FILMmakers Festival
    West Virginia
    North American prize
    Best short film
  • Cannes Film festival 2013 - Short film Corner
    Cannes, France
  • Salon internacional de la Luz
    Bogota, Colombia
    South America Premiere
  • Woman in the 21st Century - Minsk short film festival
    Minsk - Belarus
  • Siliguri International short film and Documentary contest
    Siliguri - India
  • Festival Ose ce court
    Bischheim, France
  • Florence short film festival
    Florence
    Italy
    October 6, 2016
    Italy premiere
  • Grand OFF
    Warsaw
    Poland
    December 3, 2016
Director Biography - Ali Sattarpour

Ali Sattarpour was born in Tehran, Iran in 1975, and moved to France in 1986. He has studied cinema in Paris, and started as assistant director in differents productions, the french TV serial "Sauveur Giordano", and lately the full length movie, "Street dance 2". Since 2004, he is started directing short films, music videos, documentaries & corporate films.

His videos for the famous Iranian singer Sattar, established Ali as ground breaking talent to reckon with.

"Yeganegi", "Salaam" and "Akharin talash" became the most succesfull Sattar's music videos. Several times number one, in differents charts and more than 2 millions views in You Tube, although YouTube is filtered in Iran. In 2007 and 2010, Ali was executive producer in a short film directed by Yaël Cohen and two music videos performed by the french rapper Dosseh, broadcast on MTV.

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