Overview
A 16-minute Austrian short by writer-director Farhad Bazyan, the film follows a photographer who loses his memory and becomes entangled in a taboo love that accelerates his unraveling. Told in impressionistic fragments—image-driven passages, voiceover, and tense close-ups—the piece plays with unreliable memory and desire, letting gaps and overlaps in the narrative do much of the storytelling.
Visually, the camera favors tight, sculpted light and studiobound compositions that feel both intimate and claustrophobic. The sound design leans into breaths, room tone, and sudden cuts, underscoring the protagonist’s fractured sense of self. Bazyan’s own notes list a 2017 “short version,” aligning with festival listings that place the film at 16 minutes and produced in Austria.
Baharak’s Performance
Baharak Abdolifard appears in a key role, grounding the film’s more enigmatic turns with a poised, restrained presence. Her performance balances vulnerability and distance—reading as both confidante and catalyst—so that brief looks and small shifts in voice carry outsized weight within the film’s minimalist frame. In scenes opposite the guitarist/photographer figure, she brings emotional focus without breaking the movie’s cool, observational style.
Director: Farhad Bazian
