A transsexual teenage boy named Abraham was murdered and burned in a cave out of a small village. The main suspect is his religious father who prays in a small mosque every day.
Original Title Ebrahim Year of production 2024 Length 14' CountryIran Shooting FormatDigital Aspect Ratio 4:3 Dialogue Persian Directors Elnaz Ghaderpour and Reza Gamini Producers Ali Asgari, Pooyan Sedghi Co-Producer Hamid Ladoni Writers Elnaz Ghaderpour, Reza Gamini Executive Producer Farid Ebrahimi CinematographerArman Fayyaz Editor Elnaz Ghaderpour Sound Design Saman Shahamat Costume DesignMehrnoosh Bayani Set Design AmirHossein Davani Production Manager Mohammad Askari Make-Up ArtistReza Arabi MusicPayam Azadi Cast Hamid Pourazari, Sajad Afsharian, Safoura Khoshtinat, Hadi Sheikholeslami, Hasti Moraveji
Director’s Statement It’s a short movie about a murdered transsexual teenage boy who was living in a religious small town in Iran. As you may know, our country is currently governed by a radical religious regime that doesn’t acknowledge the LGBTQ+ community’s existence altogether! let alone allowing for any sort of platforms for them to be heard. We believe it’s the emerging artists’ job to be the voice of such unspoken marginalized communities and find ways to address their challenges and their basic survival needs. So, we chose to make this film about religion, fanaticism, and human diversity.
