Delay

Director: Ali Asgari, Iran, 2018, 14 minutes, Cast: Mohammad Kamal Alavi, Melina Ghamiloei, Erfan Hazrat Gholizadeh, Sadaf Asgari, Babak Karimi

A man and his two children are late for their flight. While they wait for the next flight something happens that changes his point of view about being a father.

Screening with: Shorts Program #1

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Ali Asgari

Ali Asgari was born in Tehran, Iran. He studied cinema in Italy. He is an alumnus of Berlinale Talent Campus 2013. Two of his short films MORE THAN TWO HOURS (2013) and THE SILENCE (2016, co-directed by Farnoosh Samadi) were in competition at Festival de Cannes where they competed for the Short Film Palme d’Or. His short film THE BABY premiered in competition of Venice Film Festival in 2014.

His short films were screened in more than 600 film festivals around the world including Sundance, BFI London and Melbourne and won more than 150 international awards. DISAPPEARANCE is his first feature film. The script was developed at Cannes Festival’s Cinefondation La Residence.

“Delay” is his latest film.