Ava
Spring Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage
Sadaf Foroughi / Feature Narrative / Iran, Canada, Qatar / 2017 / 102 min / Original Language: Farsi / Interests: Women, Coming of age, Drama, Social Issues, Youth
Synopsis
Ava’s first visit to the gynaecologist with her mother is a traumatic experience for the young woman. Trauma gives way to anger when Ava discovers her mother’s dishonesty and learns of the rules she broke when she was the age Ava is now. Bewildered and enraged, Ava attempts to commit suicide at school. To avoid being expelled, she accepts a deal to snitch on her classmates, but a guilty conscience is a heavy burden. Misunderstood by her parents and tormented by school, Ava decides on a third way forward.
Credits
- Director
- Sadaf Foroughi
- Screenwriter
- Sadaf Foroughi
- Producer
- Kiarash Anvari, Sadaf Foroughi
- Production Company
- Sweet Delight Pictures
About the Director
Sadaf Foroughi is an Iranian-born, Montreal-based filmmaker. She began her artistic career in 2003, creating and producing short films, documentaries and video art. Foroughi participated in the Berlinale Talent Campus, where she was selected to participate in the 'Why Democracy?' short film project. Her short documentary ‘Féminin, Masculin’ (2007) was nominated for the Best Non-European Film Award at the Grand Off-European Off Film Awards in Warsaw, and won the Best Short Film award at the Oxford Brooks University Annual Film and Music Festival. She co-wrote, co-produced, and appeared in Kiarash Anvari’s feature-length film ‘The Pot and the Oak’ (2017), which had its world premiere in the Bright Future Competition Section of the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Sadaf’s debut feature film ‘Ava’ had its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2017 where it received an honourable mention as the best Canadian debut feature film and awarded the Discovery Section FIPERSCI Prize. Foroughi graduated with an MA in Film Studies from the University of Provence, and obtained a degree in Film Production from the New York Film Academy.
Awards and Festival History
Festivals
TIFF 2017, Discovery (WP)
Contacts
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Main Contact
Sadaf Foroughi
- Company:
- Sweet Delight Pictures
- Email:
- sadafforoughi@yahoo.com
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Main Contact
Kiarash Anvari
- Company:
- Sweet Delight Pictures