TEHRAN-The Iranian short film “Twenty-One Weeks Later” written and directed by Nasrin Mohammadpour has received an award at the 11th La Mirada Tabú Film Festival, which was held in Zaragoza, Spain.

A total of 55 short films competed in the official competition section of the festival that took place from December 5 to 14. At the closing ceremony, the Iranian flick was presented the Mention Special Jury Award.

The 14-minute film, a 2023 production, is about a young woman who has decided to have an abortion while her husband disagrees.

Banafsheh Riazi, Leila Hassanzadeh, Soudabeh Bahraminejad, and Parisa Asgari are in the cast.

The film had its world premiere at the Wide Angle - Asian Short Film Competition section of the 28th Busan International Film Festival, in South Korea in October and won the Sonje Award, given to the best Korean and Asian short film.

Nasrin Mohammadpour, 34, is a filmmaker and social activist. Her debut short film “Left Hand” (2020) won the BNP award at the Seoul International Women’s Film Festival. “21 Weeks Later” is her second short film.

La Mirada Tabú aims to motivate artists and creators to show their view of the “taboo” concept, which is broad and diverse and encompasses dreams, the unconscious, the mental worlds and the ghosts that populate them, the mystery, magic, even the untold reality, the unsaid, “clothes on the line,” in the workplace, emotional, family, vital... from a vision as polyhedral as human thought: carefree, humorous, dramatic, dreamlike… always respecting all ways of thinking and creativity.

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