A young girl lives in the house of an old lady, serving as her nurse. There are a bunch of domestic animals in the house, which the young girl consumes as food and other things. After living there for a while, the animals’ interactions with the girl become weird. They try to warn her about something but fail. In a nightmare of hers, the girl sees many other girls who used to be nurses in the house and have all morphed into animals. Finally, through magic, the old woman (who looks young) turns the girl (who looks weak and old) into a rabbit. Now, a new girl comes to the house and takes the rabbit (the previous nurse), repeating the same destiny.
TOTEM NIGHT (شبِ توتم)
Directed By Negin Kamran, Hana Azimi nia
Iran | Narrative | 19 min
International Premiere
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Violence
Farsi
English
International Premiere
2023
19 minutes
Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Narrative
Iran
Negin Kamran
Hana Azimi nia
Negin Kamran was born in 2000 in Isfahan, Iran. When she was 13 years old, she wrote her first book about her personal thoughts and life experiences. She went to an art high school and started to study cinema. During that time, she staged a theater and also made her first short film called Side and Side. After high school, she continued studying cinema at the Art University of Tehran. She was an actress and the scriptwriter of the short film Zhazh, directed by Hana Azimi Nia. Hana Azimi nia was born in 2001 in Iran. She is a cinema student at the Art University of Tehran, majoring in directing. She has experience as a costume designer and also has worked as a set designer in a short film named Dastandar. She has also been a director assistant in a historical documentary and a festival teaser. Hana made her first film 2 years ago, named Zhazh, which was an official selection of Nahal.
Ali Mohammad Izadi
Hana Azimi nia
Negin Kamran
Sonia Sanjari
Shahedeh Khodadadi