Focus: Storytelling is a competition of mid-length and full-length feature productions with a clearly original creative approach, looking for original forms of narration. Both young and experienced filmmakers will compete for the prize. This year 8 films will take part in the competition.

Bright House, dir. Rouhollah Hejazi (Iran) 2023, 99’, 16+
Forty-year-old Roshan is totally broke. He has paid all he had for a flat in a complex whose construction does not seem to end. His wife Maryam thinks he is passive about life and his family, even about Maryam’s affair with a close friend. When Maryam asks for a divorce and the court awards custody of their six-year-old daughter to her, Roshan finds himself a big loser in life. Now it is time for him to do something and to prove he is not the person he used to be anymore.
Film awarded at e.g. Topanga FF. Polish premiere.

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