Short film distribution: "Birthmarked" by Mehrshad Golkarian
Short film distribution: "Birthmarked" by Mehrshad Golkarian

Birthmarked

by  Mehrshad Golkarian
short film / Drama

Poster of the short film "Birthmarked" by Mehrshad Golkarian

As a woman's body becomes the arena for a patriarch’s dogmatic battle, her desires are suppressed and remain unexpressed.

Synopsis

Fatemeh, a 14-year-old girl with a birthmark on her left breast, is being forced by her father to marry a suitor at such young age. Being dissatisfied with this, she orchestrates a daring action to prevent this early marriage.

Birthmarked

by  Mehrshad Golkarian
short film / Drama

As a woman's body becomes the arena for a patriarch’s dogmatic battle, her desires are suppressed and remain unexpressed.

Synopsis

Fatemeh, a 14-year-old girl with a birthmark on her left breast, is being forced by her father to marry a suitor at such young age. Being dissatisfied with this, she orchestrates a daring action to prevent this early marriage.

Poster of the short film "Birthmarked" by Mehrshad Golkarian

BIRTHMARKED

(Mahgerefteh)

Iran, 2024 / 18′

a film by
Mehrshad Golkarian

with
Sara Hatami
Kiamehr Jalali
Siamak Safari
Soudabeh Jafarzadeh
Amir Reza Jokar
Yazdan Kokabi Saba
Adrian Khosravi
Yashar Jafari

Screenplay Mehrshad Golkarian
Director of Photography Alireza Barazandeh
Production Design Mohammad Heidargholi
Costume Design Abtin Barghi
Make-up Omid Golzadeh
Editor Pooyan Sholevar
Composer Amir Tavasoli
Sound Amirhossein Ghasemi
Babak Ardalan
Color Nima Dabirzadeh
Production Mehrshad Golkarian
Distribution Alpha Film

Official selections and awards of the short film "Birthmarked" by Mehrshad Golkarian

Official Selections

  • Capital City Film Festival  USA, 2024 
  • Portobello Film Festival  UK, 2024 
  • Orlando Film Festival  USA, 2024 
  • BIFF – Bahamas International Film Festival  Bahamas, 2024 
  • Pune Short Film Festival  India, 2024 
  • Aaretaler Kurzfilmtage  Switzerland, 2024 
  • GOA Short Film Festival  India, 2024 
  • MADRIFF – Madrid Indie Film Festival  Spain, 2024 

The director

The short film "Birthmarked" director

Mehrshad Golkarian

Biofilmography

Mehrshad Golkarian was born in 1988 in Tehran. In 2019 he graduated in the Master of Fine Arts in Cinema, Faculty of Cinema and Theater of Tehran University of Arts. He directed several short-films selected and awarded in national and international festivals. Among these, “Circle Law” (2019) and “The Visit” (2020). In 2023 he writes, produces and directs “Birthmarked”.”

Director statement

Birthmarked is a very personal film for me. I have invested my heart and soul in its creation. This movie is a tribute to my childhood relationship with my sister. At that time, a horizon of elusive unknowns surrounded me, because the newly matured world of my sister, who was 4 years older than me, was very different from my childhood world, and the more I tried to understand her world, the less successful I was. This inability to understand made me more fascinated. And every film I make is a tribute to every experience in life that has fascinated me and touched my emotions at the deepest levels.
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