Indie Meme Film Festival 2024

Shorts B - Family Stories - Growing Up, Standing Out

Expired April 26, 2022 4:59 AM
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7 films in package
The Grasshoppers Sleep Here
When a mowing man comes to cut down the grass in a field, he finds a girl is sleeping there - determined to protect the insects who call it home.
Bambirak
When 8 year old Kati from Afghanistan stows away in her fathers truck, Faruk must juggle his responsibilities as a single dad while holding down his first job in a new country.
Baahar
Disaster brews when Seher gets accepted to a boarding school--a dream come true--on the evening of a big family dinner.
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Hot Chocolate
A growing boy and his mother form an important bond through lovingly prepared cups of hot chocolate.
An Early Spring
A young girl befriends a female backpacker passing through her Himalayan village. The villagers are intrigued and somewhat unsettled by the solo traveller - and tension arises when the girl's mother believes the backpacker is stoking her daughter's rebellious ideas.
Family Q&A
Chai
With the grand opening of their chai stand, Iranian siblings, Sanam and Reza are faced with unexpected competition from their neighbors' hot chocolate stand.
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Iranian siblings, Sanam and Reza, without speaking a word of English, open up a chai stand in their neighborhood. However, the siblings face the unexpected competition from their neighbors who open a hot chocolate stand. What follows are the challenges Sanam and Reza experience to convince people in their neighborhood to give their Persian tea a chance over the hot chocolate.
  • Year
    2021
  • Runtime
    7 minutes
  • Language
    English, Persian
  • Country
    United States
  • Director
    Arshum Rouhanian
  • Screenwriter
    Arshum Rouhanian
  • Producer
    Vincenzo Dama, Savarone Ammann
  • Executive Producer
    Arshum Rouhanian, Vincenzo Dama, Savarone Ammann
  • Cast
    Hope Safai, Keon Faroughi, Joe Colaleo
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