‘Retouch’ to be screened at 3 international film festivals

Iranian short film ‘Retouch’ has been scheduled to go on screen at 3 international film festivals in September.

The short film will compete in the 11th Batumi International Art House Film Festival in Georgia (Sep. 17-24), the 11th edition of Thess International Film Festival in Greece (Sep. 25-30), and the 10th edition of Toronto International Film Festival September 23-24, 2017.

‘Retouch’ has so far succeeded to compete in 10 Oscar Academy honored festivals.

Produced by the Iranian Young Cinema Society, ‘Retouch’ is about a young woman whose husband dies before her eyes and she just observes the tragic scene.

Batumi International Art House Film Festival is an international event designed to enhance internatinal cultural exchange, understanding, and collaboration. The event provides an opportunity for well known film makers, producers and film critics to meet and share their expertise and works with other people in their respective fields and gives local cinema lovers and other individuals a better understanding of the industry and it’s people through retrospectives.

Founded in 1992, The Thess International short Film Festival (TIFF) has become one of the Southeast Europe's primary showcases for the work of new and emerging filmmakers. The event features the International Section, a panorama of Greek films, the New Horizons program, the Balkan Survey, and numerous retrospectives and tributes to leading figures in the world of film.

The Toronto International Film Festival began as the Toronto Festival of Festivals, collecting the best films from other film festivals around the world and showing them to eager audiences in Toronto. 

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