Switzerland to watch Iran ‘Lunch Time’

The 14th edition of the International Oriental Film Festival of Geneva (FIFOG) in Switzerland has scheduled to screen Iranian short ‘Lunch Time’.

Directed by Alireza Qasemi, the 15-minute ‘Lunch Time’ is about a high school girl who has come to 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 the flick are Khorshid Cheraqipour, Roya Bakhtiari, Amir Taqdiri, Peyman Naemi, Siavash Cheraqipour, Bahram Omrani, Pouria Akhavan, Mohammad Haddadi, Alireza Qasemi, Mehdi Yeganeh, and Arash Qasemi.

‘Lunch Time’ has had about 100 international screenings, including at the HollyShorts Film Festival in the US which made the film qualified for submission to the Student Academy Awards.

The short has been nominated for a Palme d’Or at the 70th Cannes Film Festival in France and won best short award at the 8th ÍRÁN:CI Film Festival based in the Czech Republic.

The 2019 edition of the FIFOG will take place from April 29 to May 5, under the sign of "the praise of difference".

The FIFOG, according to the event’s website, “seeks to highlight this new cinema that results from the recognition of the other denied for a very long time.”

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