Valery's Suitcase

​Navid, a well-educated immigrant working a remedial job in a small town in Canada ​looks for love in all the wrong places. An abandoned suitcase sends him on an adventure that teaches him a lesson he won't soon forget.

  • Arshad Khan
    Director
    Threadbare, Doggoned, Zen, What Have I Beceome
  • Jordan Kaufman
    Writer
  • Arshad Khan
    Producer
    Threadbare, Doggoned, Zen, What Have I Become, Abu
  • Ali Momen
    Key Cast
    Beeba Boys
  • Helene Robbie
    Key Cast
  • Tiffany Olsen
    Key Cast
  • Vincent Trudel-Gravel
    Music
  • Etienne Gagnon
    Editor
    Fennario; The good fight, H2Oil, The Carbon Rush
  • Giulio Wehrli
    Sound Designer
  • Ricahard Duquette
    Cinematography
    Serpant's Lullaby
  • Julia Innes
    Sound
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Romance, Drama, Comedy
  • Runtime:
    14 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    March 15, 2016
  • Production Budget:
    10,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Country of Filming:
    Canada
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Chicago International South Asian Film Festival
    Chicago
    United States
    October 9, 2016
    World Premiere
  • Florence River to River Indian Film Festival
    Florence
    Italy
    December 4, 2016
    European Premiere
  • West Texas International Film Festival
    Odessa
    United States
    October 15, 2016
    Texas premiere
  • Kansas International Film Festival
    Kansas
    United States
    November 5, 2016
    Kansas Premiere
Distribution Information
  • gray matter productions
    Country: Canada
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Arshad Khan

Arshad Khan is a director, production designer, film curator and a film educator. He has worked on Deepa Mehta's film Midnights Children (2012), designed productions such as the Canadian-Punjabi feature SARDARJI (2015) and the short CASE CLAUS'D (2015). Khan is currently developing two fiction feature films and editing a feature documentary called ABU (2016). Khan is currently the director of Canada's largest South Asian film festival MISAFF.

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