The people who can’t accept the rules will be arrested and corrected with a mask.
Director: Sahar Soleimani
DOP: Felix Lübbert
20min, Tehran, IR 2017
Keeping a diary. It’s actually a nice thing to do. Something you undertake for yourself. An act of both letting go and preserving. In “Isolated Crows of Solitude”, Tehran-based director Sahar Soleimani turns such daily personal reporting into a means of surveillance, of repression. People are forced to keep logs of their days. Having their own ideas, discovering their own potential, maturing into individual personalities – these are utopian aims in this dystopian world. Those who rebel against the rules of the totalitarian system are “cured” with a mask. The power of dictatorship? Isolation. Alienation. Solitude. Reza is one of them. And one of them.
Best Fiction Film @ Rooyesh Film Festival, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, IRAN – 05.09.2019
Best Movie + Best Actor @ Medusa Underground Film Fest, Las Vegas, USA – 11.01.2019
Best Short Movie @ Kısa-ca 18th International Student Film Festival, Konya, TURKEY – 05.10.2018
Best Short Movie @ Pondicherry International Film Festival, INDIA – 26.09.2018
Rooyesh Film Festival, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, IRAN – 05.09.2019
Festival Aangaelica, Los Angeles, USA – 24.06.2019
Queens World Film Festival, New York, USA – 21.03.2019
Beeston Film Festival, Nottingham, UK – 13.03.2019
Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival, Mumbai, INDIA – 20.02.2019
Medusa Underground Film Fest, Las Vegas, USA – 11.01.2019
Lift-Off-Sessions, London, UK – 06.01.2019
NukhuFest, New York, USA – 29.12.2018
Inshort Film Festival, Lagos, NIGERIA – 27.12.2018
Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival, Buffalo, USA – 02.11.2018
Kısa-ca 18th International Student Film Festival, Konya, TURKEY – 05.10.2018
Pondicherry International Film Festival, INDIA – 26.09.2018
Fastminds Neurodiversity Arts Festival, London, UK – 14.09.2018
Covellite International Film Festival, Montana, USA – 12.09.2018
Newark International Short Film Festival, New Jersey, USA – 06.09.2018
Jordanian International Short Film Festival, Amman, JORDAN – 02.09.2018
FARCUME, International Short Film Festival, Faro, PORTUGAL – 20.08.2018
Dulcísimo Ovario Festival De Vídeo y Cine Femenino, Pachuca, MEXICO – 08.06.2018
PlayButton International Short Film Festival, Chennai, INDIA – 17.05.2018
Phoenix International Film Festival, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA – 29.04.2018
Darbhanga International Film Festival, Bihar, INDIA – 20.04.2018
Tanawo Festival, Hamburg, GERMANY – 15.03.2018
Reeperbahnfestival, Hamburg, GERMANY – 20.09.2017