Close-up Film Festival to screen Iranian ‘Lunch Time’

The 2022 edition of the Close-up Film Festival in Canada has been set to screen Iranian acclaimed short flick ‘Lunch Time’.

Directed by Alireza Qasemi, the 15-minute film 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 more than 100 international screenings at several global events, including the International Oriental Film Festival of Geneva in Switzerland, the Tupelo Film Festival in the US, the Iranian Filmfestival Cologne - Visions of Iran - in Germany, and 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.

A collection of the best Iranian short films is scheduled to be premiered at the 2022 Close-up Film Festival with the collaboration of Coquitlam Public Library, City Centre Branch in Vancouver.

The screenings will be held on March 12 when Iranians are getting ready to celebrate the New Year.

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