Today Only: See Marzieh Vafamehr’s Sundance Short Online
The Sundance film festival’s website is in the midst of 10 Shorts/10 Days, and today they’re streaming Marzieh Vafamehr’s 21-minute movie about the Iran-Iraq war, “Wind, Ten Years Old.” The film takes place mostly in a girls’ school, and it’s pretty jarring to hear little girls singing war propaganda songs. But the film will be gone tomorrow, so see it for free while you can, at sundance.org/festival/shorts.
Vafamehr’s bio from the Sundance site:
Marzieh Vafamehr is a Acting graduate from the Fine Arts Faculty in Tehran University. She was the founder of theatre group in Andishe cultural centre and supervisor of cinema theatre group of Andishe Javan group in 1997. She participated in precious and semi-precious stone exhibition in 2002 and 2003, while in the Arasbaran cultural center and various private galleries In 2001 and 2002, Marzieh taught, drama and theater acting in Mokaab and Chahar-Sou-e-honar workshops.She worked as director assistant in COMMON PAIN (Yasamin Malek Nasr), BEHIND THE CURTAIN OF TAKHTE TAVOOS serial (Mohamma Rahmanian), a TV hygienic training video (Varouj Karim Masihi) ordered by public Health Organization, GREEK SHIP, UNROLLED PAPER, and THE LAST REHEARSAL (Naser Taghvaiee).She has acted in such projects as GLADIATORS, written by Alireza Hanifi (Winner of woman acting prize in The Student Theater Festival), GALILEO LALILEI written by Bertolt Brecht, THE ROSE TATTOO written by Tennessee Williams, UNCLE WIGGILY IN CONNETICUT written by J.D. Salinger, HELLO AND GOODBYE written by Athol Fugard, PLAY HOUSE written by Hossein Kiani (Winner of woman acting prize in The Student Theater Festival), UNSWEETENED a feature directed by Naser Taghvaiee whose shooting was stopped, BAREFOOT IN PARADISE, a feature directed by Bahram Tavakolli, CHAPTER 7, a short film directed by Marjan Ashrafizadeh (Winner of best acting prize of Cinema Academy in Art Students Film Festival), and AFTER LUNCH WE WILL SIT & TALK, a short film directed by Ramin Parvin. She currently lives in Tehran, Iran.