The Gold Teeth
TITLE
The Gold Teeth
DIRECTOR
Alireza Kazemipour
COUNTRY
Canada
YEAR
2022
DURATION
15′
GENRE
Fiction
The Gold Teeth
Sahra, an Afghan refugee in Canada arrives at Iranian ex-Dentist, Hamed's doorstep for help extracting her late father's gold teeth before they bury him.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Alireza Kazemipour
Alireza Kazemipour, is a multi-awarded Iranian-Canadian screenwriter, director, and producer. He gained his master's degree in Film directing from the faculty of art at the University of Tehran in 2010 and directed his first short film "Slowness". He made his second film "The Blue Bed" in 2020 and it has been selected and screened for more than 60 Film festivals around the world, and has received 12 awards and 14 nominations, including the Best Director Award from the Vancouver Short Film Festival. Recently, he has directed a documentary feature film "Margin vs. Center" (2021), and a short movie "Split Ends" (2021) that will be released soon. Social justice, women's rights, and immigrant issues are his concerns.
- Director Alireza Kazemipour
- Screenplay Alireza Kazemipour
- Cinematography Jay Kamal
- Editing Bruno Trivelli
- Cast Parmiss Sehat, Shayan Bayat, Enayat Ahmadi, Aixa Kay
- Producer/s Mattisse Weyler Hubert, Alireza Kazemipour
- Production Company Crazy8s Film Society
- Distributor/s Crazy8s Film Society
- Project Title The Gold Teeth
- Project Type Fiction
- Completion Date March 27, 2022
- Country of origin Canada
- Country of filming Canada
- Language English, Persian
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student Project No
Alireza Kazemipour
Alireza Kazemipour, is a multi-awarded Iranian-Canadian screenwriter, director, and producer. He gained his master's degree in Film directing from the faculty of art at the University of Tehran in 2010 and directed his first short film "Slowness". He made his second film "The Blue Bed" in 2020 and it has been selected and screened for more than 60 Film festivals around the world, and has received 12 awards and 14 nominations, including the Best Director Award from the Vancouver Short Film Festival. Recently, he has directed a documentary feature film "Margin vs. Center" (2021), and a short movie "Split Ends" (2021) that will be released soon. Social justice, women's rights, and immigrant issues are his concerns.
Silver Wave Film Festival
Nominee for Best Canadian Short, 2022
Tirana International Film Festival
Live Action Category Competition, 2022
