Form

Synopsis:
Mahnazir is 18 year’s old girl, daughter of an Afghan immigrant family in Iran.
When Mahnazir’s father, Kabir, get sick and couldn’t work in “Baghdadi brick burning workshop” anymore as if he doesn’t the supervisor of the workshop would take their home, Mahnazir decides to work as labor in brick burning workshop in hiding form her own family and male coworkers.
Until one day one of the coworkers named Ehsan, gets suspicious about her true identity, disrupts her order of things and She finds out that she is not the only with the secret in her family…

Director’s Biography:
Saeid Ghasemi was born in 1992, in Tehran, Iran.
Saeid Ghasemi is graduated from Kanooncj (http://www.kanooncj.ir) film school, one of the top film schools in Iran, He began studying cinema under supervisions of Teachers like Mohammadreza Delpack, Ali Jackan and Mohammad Talebi.
Saeid Ghasemi worked as Assistant director and script supervisor in various short films and feature films for three years.
Short film “Form” is his first creation that has been written, produced and directed by him.

Director Statement
Life of immigrants in countries, especially Afghans in Iran were always concerned me, so when I got the chance to make my short film I started looking around.
Financial and citizenship rights is the first line of challenges to survive for Afghan immigrants.
My core story triggered when I saw girl dressing like a man in subway, I could tell she was working as labor by her clothes.
”Mahnazir is an Afghan girl dressing as his father in order to save their home”, as many Baghdadi Brick burning workshop citizens do, and their home is loaned to them in the guarantee of working as labor.
But I needed a new angle, financial crisis has so many complications.
It can make humans to change and even undermine who their really are, make them change their appearance and even their identity.
There working children’s and again Afghan kids working in crossways, it is common to see a boy dressed as a girl to provoke the guilt sense of other people to give them more money, of course that money would not help their situation as most of it goes to supervisors that illegally managing them.
I loved the contrast, a boy dressing as girl and a girl dressing as a man in order to survive, I liked it, and it felt like discovering a new point of view.

Categories: Drama