Three Tehranian short films from Iran will compete at the 39th Friborg International Film Festival (FIFF) held in Friborg, Switzerland from March 21st to 30th.
Three Iranian films include “The Holy Weight,” coordinated by Fanush Abedi and Nega Fardia, “Fairwell Paris” by Mohammad Ebrahim Shabaji, and “My Infinite Solar Eclipse” by Bidjan Arabi. They will be screened in the international competition section of the Swiss event, Honaronlein reported.
The 2025 production, 8 minutes of “Sacred Weight” is an animation with no dialogue. It will premiere the world at the festival.
It is a fact of life that love evolves and relationships change. Using caricatures, this animated film captures resilience as an inevitable response to dependencies. A gentle and meaningful take on life stages and age.
“Fairwell Paris” is a 19-minute fiction film made in 2024. An international premiere will be held at the event. Mohammad Rasoul Safari, Morteza Ghadiri, Azin Fahimi and Setin Khanmohammadi are on the cast.
Under the soft gaze of his father, the teenager with Down syndrome is eager to visit Paris. “The City of Light” has always had a strong charm to him, and he is ready to do anything to make his dream come true.
“My Endless Eclipse” lasts for 14 minutes, is a fictional film produced in 2025. It will premiere the world at the festival. The cast includes Fernsh Paybandi, Ruhola Merabi, Adel Sadoddin and Ali Nazimodin.
The woman is forced to hide her true identity in order to survive. On the verge of being forced to marry, she continues running and is forced to transcend the hostile world inhabited by unstable people.
The Friborg International Film Festival is the annual film festival held in Friborg, Switzerland. It focuses on selected films from Asia, Africa and Latin America. The Grand Prize is the major award at the Friborg International Film Festival.
It aims to promote intercultural understanding through film. It prefers productions that stimulate reflexes and cause controversy. The festival sheds light on blind spots, reveals new talent and places film history in the context of an exclusive approach.
The festival is held every March and participates in the project year-round. FIFF is one of Switzerland’s five most important film festivals. It takes pride in its exquisite reputation at both national and international levels as a national reference for diversity. Its atmosphere, its warmth and simplicity are the points of encounters where both the audience and the experts appreciate many things.
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