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ARVANDAN Directors Heading for Cannes Short Film Corner 2006
Heading for the next Cannes Film Festival in May 2006 are the following three creators to present their works in person and hoping to establish contacts for distributing their quality art-house works to savvy viewers :
- Ziya HOMAYOON, with his 37-minute avant-garde short action film `RAZOR, CLOUD, MOUSE`
Born March 11, 1976, Ziya Homayoon entered the artistic arena in 1995. So far, he has made seven movies, including two documentaries, one docudrama and three short action movies.
The film is about a young filmmaker who wanders around the town to find the right subject and we see the film through his camera. There, he comes across a young girl who is determined to commit suicide. He follows her. She fails to commit suicide three times. The fourth time while she is about to jump off the roof of a building, he arrives and tries to prevent her. They talk to each other and meanwhile he finds out that she has problem with men, all men, her father, brother, her boyfriend and all others and that she is fed up with people's attitude towards girls like her. At that moment, we see them swap places and the young filmmaker is in front of the camera. Then, he talks about his own problems which seem very similar to the girl`s and now he wants to jump off the roof. She runs to him and we see the boy being hurled down the building. The boy dies. The girl edits his film, registers it at some festivals and wins several awards. In an interview, she claims that she has gone through so many hardships to make the film.
