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"SOMETHING LIKE ME"
(Chizi Shabih-e Man)
 

Director: Mona Zahed
Image: Mona Zahed
Editor: Pirooz Kalantari
Sound: Hossein Mahdavi
Producers: Pirooz Kalantari, Mona Zahed
2002, 45min, Color, DVCAM
   
SYNOPSIS:

During the war between Iran and Iraq, Mona Zahed was just a young girl who wished to experience the war atmosphere personally, but everybody said: ”You are too young, and you are a girl”. Now she is 26, and another war has come up, this time in Afghanistan. It is a wonderful opportunity for her to get to what she once desired, and she is certain to find herself where women, once again, are not welcomed at all.

 BIOGRAPHY:  

Born in 1975 in Tehran, Mona Zahed educated from Jahad University in directing of cinema in 1994, and has passed the courses of acting and directing in Rassam Honar institution. She has made some short films, participated in several local and foreign festivals. Mona Zahed has the experience of acting in many theatres and TV serials. 

FILMOGRAPHY

Documentary:    

  • THE DAY MOTHER DID NOT COME      1997
  • ALAS!                                             1998
  • WATERMELON                                 1999
  • I CRIED SMILING                               2001
  • SOMETHING LIKE ME                         2002

FESTIVALS:

  1. Flying Broom Women’s Film festival (2003) (Turkey )

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