A Sweet Day
TITLE
A Sweet Day
DIRECTOR
Omid Abdollahi
COUNTRY
Iran
YEAR
2026
DURATION
18′
GENRE
Fiction
A Sweet Day
When a young woman gets the chance to have a conjugal meeting with her imprisoned husband after a long time, she decides to re-experience a romantic time in the apathetic and harsh atmosphere of the prison.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Omid Abdollahi
Omid Abdollahi is an Iranian director, screenwriter, and editor whose short fiction and documentary films have been screened at numerous international film festivals. His short film Glimmer received a Special Mention from the Jury at the 35th Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in France and went on to screen at more than twenty international festivals, including the 15th Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia in Japan and the 21st Arcipelago International Short Film Festival in Italy. In 2015, Abdollahi received the Grand Prize for Best Filmmaker at the Sapporo International Short Film Festival in Japan for his trilogy of short films Bandage, Glimmer, and Hostess. In 2016, his documentary project Winners received both Script Development and Production grants from the IDFA Bertha Fund in Amsterdam. His latest short film, A Sweet Day, was selected as one of eight projects for the Script Pitch and Script Lab sections of the 40th INTERFILM International Short Film Festival Berlin. The film had its world premiere in the International Competition of the 79th Locarno Film Festival. Omid Abdollahi is currently developing his first feature-length fiction film.
- DirectorOmid Abdollahi
- Screenplay Omid Abdollahi, Solmaz Haddadian
- Cinematography Ali Ehsani
- CastBehdokht Valian, Reza Akhlaghirad, Ebrahim Azizi
- EditingOmid Abdollahi
- Producer/s Hossein Mansorzadeh, Omid Abdollahi
- Production Company
- Distributor/sLights On Film
- Project TitleA Sweet Day
- Project Type Fiction
- Completion Date13 Aug 2026
- Country of originIran
- Country of filmingIran
- LanguagePersian
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student ProjectNo
Omid Abdollahi
Omid Abdollahi is an Iranian director, screenwriter, and editor whose short fiction and documentary films have been screened at numerous international film festivals. His short film Glimmer received a Special Mention from the Jury at the 35th Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in France and went on to screen at more than twenty international festivals, including the 15th Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia in Japan and the 21st Arcipelago International Short Film Festival in Italy. In 2015, Abdollahi received the Grand Prize for Best Filmmaker at the Sapporo International Short Film Festival in Japan for his trilogy of short films Bandage, Glimmer, and Hostess. In 2016, his documentary project Winners received both Script Development and Production grants from the IDFA Bertha Fund in Amsterdam. His latest short film, A Sweet Day, was selected as one of eight projects for the Script Pitch and Script Lab sections of the 40th INTERFILM International Short Film Festival Berlin. The film had its world premiere in the International Competition of the 79th Locarno Film Festival. Omid Abdollahi is currently developing his first feature-length fiction film.
