Il Silenzio / Le Silence
France, Italy / Color / 15' / 2016
Fatma and her mother are Kurdish refugees in Italy. On their visit to the doctor, Fatma has to translate what the doctor tells her mother but she keeps silent.
Farnoosh Samadi
Ali Asgari
Farnoosh Samadi was born in Iran and graduated from the Fine Arts Academy in Rome. She started her career as a filmmaker at the Iranian Youth Cinema Society and after that she made some video installations. The Silence is her first short film which will had its world premiere in competition at Cannes Film Festival 2016. Ali Asgari was born in Tehran, Iran. He is a graduated of cinema in Italy. He began his career as an assistant director. He is an alumnus of Berlinale Talent Campus 2013. His short films were screened in more than 500 festivals around the world and won more than 100 international awards. “The Silence” is his first short film which was made out of Iran and had its world premiere in competition at Cannes Film Festival 2016.
Cast & Crew
- direction: Farnoosh Samadi, Ali Asgari
- Screenplay: Farnoosh Samadi, Ali Asgari
- Editing: Mauro Rossi
- music: Matti Paalen
- Sound Design: Lionel Guenoun
- Film Cast: Alakus Fatma, Ozel Cahide, Carnelutti Valentina
- producer:: Giovanni Pompili
- original language: Italian, English, Kurdish
Filmography
- The baby (2014)
- More than two hours (2013)
- In The Same Garden (Asgari) (2016)
- The pain (Asgari) (2015)
- Barbie (Asgari) (2012)
- Tonight is not a good night for dying (Asgari) (2011)
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