AWARD: “Museo Nazionale del Cinema” Special Mention 2022
INSTITUTE: Sapher Art University of Isfahan
YEAR: 2021
LANGUAGE: Kurdish
SYNOPSIS: Roja is a teenage village girl who is forced to marry a religious old man as blood money. The old man wants to have sex with Roja on the first night of his marriage. But the old man doesn’t know Roja’s secret and only Roja’s mistress, who is a girl, knows that Roja is not a girl, has a boy’s penis and she is Third Gender.
PROFILES: Saman Hosseinpuor was born in Saqez/Kurdestan/Iran at 1993. He started acting in Theater and he was just 14 years old, He started filmmaking at 2008. In the meantime, he started writing short story. He is a director and Writer and he lives in Iran. He has Bachelor degree and Master of Cinema. He received more than 50 awards from international film festivals for his films.
Ako Zandkarimi was born in Sanandaj/Kurdistan/Iran at 1993. He started Filmmaking when he was just 15 years old and he was just a student in high school and that was the start of his passion to Cinema. He has bachelor degree in cinema. He received more than 50 awards from international film festivals for his films.