Title: Witness

Country: Iran and France

Year :2020

Runing Time :15 min Fiction

A mother helps an elderly woman in a shopping mall in Tehran. A tragedy occurs, brutally

confronting her with the impact of her actions.

• Director : Ali Asgari
• Writers : Ali Asgari, Farnoosh Samadi
• Producers : François Morisset, Laura Jumel, Khorshid
• Alami
• Director of photography : Hamed Hosseini
• Editor : Ehsan Vaseghi
• Music : Ali Birang
• Sound operators : Amir Partozadeh, Mohammad
• Reza Hosseini
• Sound editing & Mixing : Saman Shahamat
• Make-up artist : Amir Torabi
• Production designer : Bahareh Mohammadi
• Production manager : Mohammad Asgari
• Executive producer : Reza Gamini
• Anahita Afshar : the mother
• Nasrin Kourdi : the old lady
• Selena Moradi : the little girl

Tirana International Film Festival Albania 

Helsinki International Film Festival Finland 

Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival Portugal 

WoFF Glasgow UK 

Warsaw International Film Festival Poland

BFI London Film Festival UK 

Seminci – Valladolid International Film Festival Spain 

Tehran International Short Film Festival Iran 

Izmir International Short Film Festival 

Leeds International Film Festival UK 

TweetFest Film Festival UK 

Ajyal Film Festival Qatar 

Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival – Curta Cinema 

Africa Rising International Film Festival South Africa 

Festival Tous Courts Aix France

O Dia Mais Corto Portugal 

Minimalen Short Film Fest. Trondheim Norway 

Un poing c’est court France

Dhaka International Film Festival Bangladesh 

In The Palace International Short Film Festival Bulgaria 

Bull City International Film Festival USA 

Corto Dorico Film Festival Italy 

Le Carrousel International du Film de Rimouski 

Akbank Short Film Festival Turkey

Annapolis Film Festival USA 

Tiro For Arts in Lebanon (Istanbouli Theatre) Lebanon 

Lonely Wolf: London International Film Festival UK 

IE International Short Film Festival Spain 

Atlanta Film Festival USA 

Long Story Shorts | International Film Festival Romania 

Cinécran – Rencontres du cinéma européen France

Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia Japan 

The Quarantine Film Festival Bulgaria 

Daroca&Prisión Film Fest Spain 

Nostalgia Film Festival Italy

Raskin Award Minimalen Film Festival

Special Mention Akbank Film Festival