UMBRA
UMBRA

UMBRA

Director Saeed Jafarian

Production year 2018

Length 15min.

Country Iran

SYNOPSIS

A few minutes after midnight, the young lady realizes that her partner disappeared after they had sex. She goes out worried to seek her partner in the darkness of streets.

CAST & CREW

Saeed Jafarian
Saeed Jafarian

Director

Producer(s)

Rambod Javan

Script

Fatemeh Abdoli, Saeed Jafarian

Director of Photography

Masoud Amini Tirani

Music by

Hesam Ohadi

Sound

Hossein Ghourchian, Ehran Behrouzinia

Edit

Mad Khodabakhsh

Cast

Mahsa Alafar, Banipal Shoomoon

Saeed Jafarian

Born in Tehran, Iran. An interest in cinema led Jafarian to begin writing film criticism for Iranian magazines such as Hamshahri Javan, 24 and Cinema. After graduating from Azad University Tehran in Electronics Engineering and Iranian Youth Cinema Society in 2006, he made his first short Docudrama about filmmaking. To date, he has made several independent short films, short and long documentaries and many music videos and video arts. He was also manager of Story Workshop in Hamshahri office (2008-09) and member of the Editorial Board in Cinema Magazine (2009). His Umbra was selected for the 2018 Cannes FF, Short Film Competition.


Filmography

Docudrama (2006), Balcony (2007, short), Fractal Monster (2010, short), Mustache: A Sad Story about Extinction (2010, doc), No End Chabahar (2011), For Soccer (2013, doc.), Stress (2015, doc.), Umbra (2018, short).

FILMS 2019