Director: Farzaneh Omidvarnia
Script: Farzaneh Omidvarnia, Mehdi Rostampour
Photography: Alireza Barazandeh
Animation: Farzaneh Omidvarnia
Editor: Ehsan Vaseghi
Sound: Ramin Abousedgh
Distribution: Zen Movie
Country: Iran
Year: 2019
Length: 11’43”
A group of refugees tries to reach themselves to a safe country in search for a better life. They pay a smuggler to convey them across the boarders in a fridge truck. However, the freezing temperature of the truck turns their hopes for a better future into a fierce struggle for survival.
Farzaneh Omidvarnia was born in Iran. Graduated from University of Tehran, faculty of Fine Arts, she
received a PhD in Design in 2015 from Technical University of Denmark. Following her graduation, she
began to focus on creation of fabric sculptures and writing short stories. Her artworks soon appeared
in several art exhibitions in Europe and Iran, and she published her first collection of short stories in
2016. In 2017, she directed and produced her first animated short film, To Be. The movie was acclaimed
internationally and won prizes in different festivals. Her second film is Song Sparrow (2019), selected
at Galway Film Fleadh and Giffoni Film Festival.