UNNAMED
(13 min) Iran

TUESDAY 10/24, 8:00 PM (SESSION 13)
[watch trailer]

Director/Producer: Iranmehr Salimi

Description:

Zainab is a successful girl who supports her family financially, but considers herself a boy in spirit, and now she has decided to undergo gender transition, but in addition to her family's opposition and the society's inappropriate view of this issue, she has more difficulties There is something more important to come. she, who played in the country's national volleyball team for a while and is now in the Bartar league, if she does this, she will be removed from professional volleyball forever due to her short stature compared to men, and not only will she lose her professional future, but also her livelihood and her family who are under her care will be in trouble.

Biography:

Iranmehr Salimi started learning painting and, at the age of 19, she studied for a bachelor's degree in television and digital arts and completed a master's degree in animation directing. She was the winner of Iran's student painting competition at university in 2012 with a few years of experience in animation, motion comics and television projects as a freelance artist. She says of her documentary, Unnamed, “Every day, as hundreds of children are born around the world, thousands of dreams are born, but many stories will never have a happy ending. Not for lack of effort and perseverance, but simply because of the condition's others impose on them with wrong regulation. I hope that with this film I can be the silent voice of one of these thousands of dreams.”

Contact Information:

e: iranmehr.salimi@gmail.com



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