Iranian ‘The Heavy Shadows of the Crow’ to compete in Canada

Iranian short flick ‘The Heavy Shadows of the Crow’ has been selected to compete at the 7th edition of the Gbeck Future Film Festival (GbeckFF) in Canada.

Directed by Behnam Asadollahi, the short film depicts five naked men who grow out of soil in a flat desert.

The men are led by a crow while some unexpected incidents happen.

Asadollahi’s short flick has earlier been screened at the 10th Baku International Short Film Festival in Azerbaijan, the 13th FILMSAAZ Film Festival in India, and the 2020 Gatffest Film Festival in Jamaica.

According to the GbeckFF website, “It is a competition of original films created by filmmakers from around the world, designed to discover and support young filmmakers. The short list for the 7th GbeckFF will be released in February 2021, and the winners will be announced in April. The 2021 Gbeck Future Film Screening will be presented in April in Prince Edward Island”.

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