In Competition
5th Edition

Away

Directed by Parisa Aminolahi 

Netherlands

15 mins

2013

A young couple moved from Iran to the Netherlands. The woman tries to explore the new environment and adapt herself to it. However, the contrast between where they came from and where they now live, their isolation and being away from family and friends, made the woman dispirited and homesick. The memories and nostalgia for her country encourage the woman to abandon reality and instead to sleep and live in her dreams but a peculiar phenomenon threatens her life.

Credits

Writer
Parisa Aminolahi (screenplay), based on a story by Mahsa Aminolahi
Producer
Floor Onrust (producer); Noortje Wilschut (executive/junior producer)
Cinematographer
Parisa Aminolahi, Mostafa Ghaheri
Editor
Nir Nadler
Sound
Yuval Reuven
Music
Sasha Agranov
Cast
Parisa Aminolahi
Reza Khastoo