Why This Telephone Never Rings?

Director: Hadi Yaghinlou, 2013, Iran, 8 minutes, Animation

In a corner of an old workshop, a repairman is lost in the quiet world of telephones until his calmness is disturbed with continues rings. Fed up with the rings, he starts checking numerous phones to find the ringing one to answer. In his search he gets out of the workshop and all of sudden finds himself in mysterious places. He passes through an endless land of unknown telephones until he sees nothing around him. At this moment he faces the truth. The voice is from inside him.

Hadi Yaghinlou

Hadi Yaghinlou was born in 1974 in Tehran. As a graduate of directing, Yaghinlou started his film making career as the assistant of “Vajiyollah Fardemoghadam” by making some short educational films and commercials. His first film for KANOON was called “The Red Pencil & the Black Crow” in 1998 which brought him the “Golden Bird” prize in the first Tehran Animation Festival. He has been working with Kanoon and the national foundation of computer games since that time as a supervisor.

Filmography: The red pencil & the black crow, 1998 / A precious pal & a delicious bud, 2004 / Fruits’ journey, 2006 / Why this telephone never rings? 2012