US fest to host Iran ‘Lunch Time’

Iran short film ‘Lunch Time’ has been scheduled to go on the silver screen at the 13th edition of Beloit International Film Festival in the US.

Directed by Ali-Reza Qasemi, the short film is to represent Iran at the US film event.

The 15-minute ‘Lunch Time’ is about a high school girl who has come to the hospital to identify the body of her mother. The people in charge at the hospital would not let her into the morgue because of her young age.

Among the cast members of ‘Lunch Time’ are Khorshid Cheraqipour, Roya Bakhtiari, Amir Taqdiri, Peyman Naemi, Siavash Cheraqipour, Bahram Omrani, Pouria Akhavan, Mohammad Haddadi, Alireza Qasemi, Mehdi Yeganeh, and Arash Qasemi.

The Beloit International Film Festival is an annual film festival in Beloit, Wisconsin, usually held in mid February. The first edition of the festival took place in 2006. BIFF has evolved from a single weekend to now span ten days and seven venues.

The 13th edition of the event is slated for February 22-March 3, 2019.

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