Directed by Farhad Delaram and produced by Dena Rassam, Tattoo has qualified for the 2020 Oscars by winning the Best Short Film award at the Tirana Film Festival in Albania.
The official ISFA website reports that Tattoo, the director’s seventh film and the producer’s first, has previously won the Crystal Bear at the Berlinale for Generation 14plus and the Best Short Film at Croatia’s Motovun Film Festival. The film has also been a part of Melbourne and Raindance festivals’ official selection.
This is the second Iranian short film that has qualified for the 2020 Academy Awards. Pedovore by Mohammad Kart has previously qualified by winning at the Odense Film Festival in Denmark.
Members of the academy will choose ten films out of the qualified and announce the “Short List” every December. Out of these 10 films, 5 will be the nominees at the Oscars.
Tattoo credits go as follows:
Director: Farhad Delaram, Producer: Dena Rassam, Screenplay: Farhad Delaram (Based on a plot by Dena Rassam), Cast: Behdokht Valian, Anahita Eghbalnejad, Ali Sanifar, Mojtaba Fallahi, Pouria Shakibaii, Mohsen Roumi, Zahra Mirzaii, Director of Photography: Mohammadreza Jahanpanah, Edit: Meysam Mouini, Sound Editing: Amirhossein Ghasemi, Production Design: Ali Pouya Ghasemi, Sound Mixing: Saeed zand, Farzin Zand, Makeup: Amir Torabi, Set Photography: Mohammad Masoumi, Production Manager: Diaeko Khaki