Germany to have Iranian ‘Lunch Time’

The 21st International Short Film Festival ‘Bunter Hund’ in Germany has scheduled to host Iranian short ‘Lunch Time’.

The short flick will go on the German screen during a program titled ‘Iran Special’.

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.

Most recently the short title went on screen at the 14th International Oriental Film Festival of Geneva in Switzerland, the 16th Tupelo Film Festival in the US, and the 2019 Iranian Filmfestival Cologne - Visions of Iran - in Germany.

Founded in 1999, the ‘Bunter Hund’ is a small international short film festival in the Werkstattkino in Munich.

The 21st edition of the event is slated for March 5-8, 2020.

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