US screens Lunch Time

Iranian short film ‘Lunch Time’ has been screened at the Tupelo Film Festival in the US.

Directed by Alireza Ghasemi, the film competed at the competition section of the event.

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.

Tupelo’s annual festival celebrates the art of film including film competitions and education sessions for filmmakers.

The 16th edition of the Tupelo Film Festival was launched on April 4-6, 2019.

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