Before Darkness

(Ghabl az tariki) قبل از تاریکی

Short Film
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Synopsis

An Afghan female refugee who intends to illegally cross Iran border into Turkey but she does not have enough money to pay the smugglers, therefore she is forced to hide her baby in her bag.

Director

Mosayeb Hanaei was born in 1986 in Shiraz and he graduated of filmmaking from Sura University of Tehran, he started his filmmaking activities in 2010 and made three fiction short films so far, titled «Anything Dispensable», «Popular Games», and «Before Darkness». He also made a short documentary titled ‘The Poet of Straws’. His films have been screened in domestic film festivals for which he also won many awards.

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  • Duration: 18 min
  • Language: Persian
  • Subtitles: English
Credits
  • Directed by: Mosayeb Hanaei
  • Screenplay: Mosayeb Hanaei
  • Editor: Mosayeb Hanaei
  • Sound: Mehdi Khanjan Afje, Mohamad Mehdi Javaherizadeh
  • Producer: Iranian Youth Cinema Society / Fariba Keshavarzi
  • Country and Year of Production: Iran, 2019
  • Cast: Shahbanoo Mohamadi, Iraj Tadayon, Javid Farahani, Reza Ahmadi, Narges Hazare

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