KARUN – THE LONGEST RIVER OF IRAN | 2024

SHORT FILM | DOCUMENTARY
DIRECTOR: SAHAND SARHADDI
CINEMATOGRAPHER: REZA DIDAR

Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, Short Joy Competition
FIPADOC, Short Films
Movies that Matter Festival, Shorts: Facing the Past
Ethnocineca International Documentary Film Festival, International Shorts Award
Apricot Tree International Documentary Film Festival, Short Film Competition Grand Prize
Escales Documentaires, Escale en courts
Sofia Short Fest, International Documentary Competition – Special Mention

Synopsis: On September 22, 1998, the Iranian poet Hamid Hajizadeh and his nine-year-old son Karun, whose name symbolically refers to Iran's longest river, were brutally murdered in their home in Kerman. The documentary film, based on the statements of the survivors, tries to sensitively reconstruct one of the many terrible, politically motivated events that took place in Iran at the end of the previous century, and draws us into the fateful day with the help of detailed shots of the objects in Hamid's study.

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