'Sheep Will Devour Us’ bags two awards at Screen Power fest

The 2020 Screen Power Film Festival in the UK has awarded Iranian short film ‘Sheep Will Devour Us’. 

Co-directed by Mostafa Rostampour and Atefeh Rezaiyan, ‘Sheep Will Devour Us’ succeeded to grab the monthly award for the Best Sound Design and the Best Foreign Short Film of the event in December 2020.

‘Sheep Will Devour Us’ is about a woman named Tahereh, who is a victim of very young age marriage. She, who has suffered the aftermath of such a tradition, is trying hard to avoid such a destiny for her younger sister.

The short film has been screened at a number of global events, including the Heritage film festival in the US, the Barcelona Human Rights Film Festival in Spain, the 2nd Muestra Itinerante De Cine Mx (MICMX) in Mexico, the 1st Minute Shorts competitions in the UK, the 3rd Meihodo Int’l Youth Visual Media Festival in Japan, and the Eastern Europe International Movie Awards in Turkey.

On January 15, 2021, the flick will be screened at the Queen Palm International Film Festival (QPIFF) in the US.

The Screen Power Film Festival is an international cinematic showcase that celebrates and rewards powerful films from all around the world, through monthly, quarterly and annual contests.

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