Nazanin Ahmadi

"Lovebirds" is a short film that explores the aftermath of a collapsed relationship between Masoud and his beloved fiancée Maniya. Their love affair was based on sadomasochistic tendencies and childish mischiefs that kept the flame of their love burning. But when the girl unexpectedly ends the relationship and leaves without a word, Masoud is left in a state of mourning, struggling to accept the end of their love and move on...

In the midst of the French Revolution, madmen left the madhouses, as if they had found a new meaning in their lives.

Setareh is a widow whose husband has died in an accident after marrying his second wife. Now if she wants to give birth to her own child, she has to seek a husband desperately. In her path of life, she confronts different women victims in the society – a victim of acid attack, a victim of domestic violence, a victim of oldness and loneliness, a victim of limitations for women musicians and bitter memories of the victims of prejudice against women footballers…

On a cold winter’s night in modern Tehran, a couple of young lovers run into a serious problem, and they have just a few hours to come up with a solution. They go from hospital to hospital in search for help, but none of the hospitals will admit the young woman and provide her with the medical attention she desperately requires. While they try hard to find a way to solve the problem, they have to hide what is happening from their parents. Moreover, their relationship is facing a crisis and will suffer dire consequences. Caught between conservative traditions and modern day desires, the couple must face their uncertain future.

Sarah, a 5-year-old nurse, helps her patients calm down even those with no hope of surviving…

‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌A couple are forced to sell their infant while in the middle of the deal it appears that the baby has respiratory problems.

A religious woman shelters a young girl in her house based on the request of one of her friends. But in reality, the young girl is a boy who has undergone hormone therapy and wants to perform the sex change operation, and due to this reason, her family has threatened to kill her. The religious woman is in an unwanted situation after learning about the truth about the girl.

It depicts apocalypse concentrating on the last days of a family's catastrophic life in a prevalent winter (nuclear winter) in Iran in 2012. The notions of void and terror are dominant in the film. (The nuclear catastrophe or winter is not specifically mentioned in the short film because of the hard political situation in Iran. However, its implications exist throughout the film like their imprisonment in their claustrophobic place.) Basically, the figures are indifferent in their hard circumstances and are not able to communicate with each other.

Two strangers enter a village. They have been ordered to cut down an old sacred tree. They encounter some of the villagers next to this tree and finally decide to.