Philippine film festival to host 'Immigrant'

Iranian short film 'Immigrant' is scheduled to participate in the 8th edition of the Bakunawa Young Cinema in the Philippines.

Marzieh Mandegari’s first directorial debut 'Immigrant' will mark its 5th international presence at the Philippines film festival.

Also written by Mandegari, the flick is a minimalist film about human rights, with the aim of promoting peace and friendship and the denial of racism.

‘Immigrant’ is produced through the Sequence-plan technique.

'Immigrant' has already been screened at the 19th One Shot International Short Film Festival in Armenia, the Italian Cinemagia, and the 38th Tehran Short Film Festival.  

The Bakunawa Cinema of the Young is “an annual film camp and series of film workshops for young filmmakers that culminates into a film festival - mostly of genre films (horror, sci-fi, fantasy, folk, noir, folk, etc).”

The festival has temporarily turned into mostly online screenings; but will maintain a handful of live events following health protocols.

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