Pain is Mine

2018, 13 min, Documentary Experimental

Cinematographer and Director:  Farshid Akhlaghi
Director Assistant: Shayan Salehian
Sound Mixer: Ant Bohun
Colourist: Andrew Connell
Production Manager: Mohammad Zarafshan
Stills Photographer: Roozbeh Farazmand
Supervising Producers: Steve Thomas, Shannon Owen
Production Company: Victorian College of the Arts (VCA)

Synopsis: One day, One room, One take. 
After her spinal surgery, she was always in pain, intense pain, unendurable pain. Painkillers have been her refuge for a long time, but one day, she decided to stop.

Awards:

– 2020: Best Jury Prize, Apricot Tree Ujan International Film Festival, Yerevan, Armenia
– 2020: Best Documentary Short Film Award, Sydney World Film Festival, Sydney, Australia
– 2019: Best Experimental Film award, Super Shorts London Film Festival, London, UK
– 2019: Best Pacific Short Film, Anuu-ru Aboro Film Festival, Poidimie, New Caledonia
– 2019: Black Bear Award, Athens International Film + Video Festival, Ohio, USA
– 2019: Best Experimental Documentary, Ghent Viewpoint Documentary Film Festival, Ghent, Belgium
– 2018: Special Mention Award, Camerimage Film Festival, Bydgoszcz, Poland
– 2018: Best Short Documentary, Los Angeles Documentary Film Festival(DOCLA), LA, USA 

Participations:

- 2020: 12^th Millenium Documentary Film Festival, Belgium
- 2019: 46^th Athens International Film and Video Festival, USA
- 2019: 35^th  St Kilda Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia
- 2019: 48^th Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine
- 2019: 13^th Ânûû-rû Âboro International Film Festival, Poindimié, New Caledonia
- 2019: 3^rd Amsterdam Independent Film Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- 2019: 4^th Boston Short Film Festival, USA
- 2019: 4^th  Melbourne Documentary Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia
- 2019: 11^th Ghent Viewpoint Documentary Film Festival, Belgium
- 2019: 21^st Barcelona International Short and Animation Film Festival (Mecal Pro), Spain
- 2019: 11^th Fidé - International Festival of Emergent Documentary, France
- 2019: 10^th Chalon Tout Court Film Festival, France
- 2019: 3^rd No Flash Video Show, USA
- 2019: 40^th Brussels Independent Film International Festival, Brussels, Belgium
- 2019: 22^nd International Film Festival ZOOM - ZBLIZENIA, Jelenia Gora, Poland
- 2018: 26^th Camerimage Film Festival, Bydgoszcz, Poland 
- 2018: 42^nd Montreal World Film Festival, Montreal, Canada 
- 2018: 8^th Antenna Documentary Film Festival, Sydney, Australia