ZAAM

Type:
Fiction

Duration:
20 mins

Year:
2023

Director:
Siavash Vaziri

Producer:
Siavash Vaziri

Country:
Kurdistan (Rojhelat)

Languages:
Kurdish

Subtitles:
English

Shoresh becomes the head of the family while his father is absent and his mentally ill brother is in an asylum. He decides to bring his brother home, much to the displeasure of his sister.

Siavash Vaziri, born in Sanandaj, is a Kurdish film-maker from the Iranian Kurdistan. As early as in his teens, he became a movie enthusiast watching John Ford’s “How Green My Valley Was”. At the age of 16, he joined the Iranian Young Cinema Society (IYCS) in Sanandaj, the same institute where Bahman Ghobadi, the well-known Kurdish film-maker, had started his cinematic activities, to study cinema and directing. Siavash has also studied English and is particularly interested in modern literary works and therefore, has done an extensive reading of 20th century literature. He has taken short-story and screenplay writing courses and has written several screenplays including “Zaam”, which he picked to direct as his first short film.