SILENT LIGHTHOUSE
A film by Payam Laghari and Farshad Qaffari
He received the Best Director Award 2018 of the 13. Mobile Film Festival in France, and selected in several foreign festivals in Sweden, Austria and Canada, and 100 Tehran Film Festival. The film was realized during the educational period of the filmmakers and its prize has been dedicated to “Afrin Resistance”.
Payam Laghari studied philosophy and graduated at the Iranian Youth Cinema Society.
Short Film, 1’29” – Kurdish with english subtitles – Iran 2018
This film is part of the screening curated by three young artists from Teheran: Neda Shoaei, Soroush Ahi and Shirin Ashkari, who in 2018, began the instagram project hierundjetzt_iran. The instagram page was inspiried by the HIER&JETZT: Connections manifesto. After a call for films based on the theme of Diaspora, four films were chosen, and they will be screened online on the HUJ Vimeo Page beginning Friday, June 5th. 2020.