Masomeh Normohammadi

51 min | 2020 | Iran/Japan | US Premiere

An accomplished Iranian journalist and photographer, Afshin Valinejad worked for the Associated Press in Tehran for several years and was invited by Japan’s national public broadcasting organization, NHK to go to Tokyo. He lived and worked in Japan for 8 years and evidentially became a freelance journalist. His report of the 2011 Fukushima earthquake is an insider’s perspective on this serious accident.

Official Selection: Regina Int’l FF.

DEAD NAME

Hosein Mirza Mohammadi

25 min | 2020 | Iran | US Premiere

During a journalist’s investigation of a reported suicide at a shelter for homeless boys, she begins to suspect there is more to the story than what she is being told. The story captures the vulnerability of the vulnerable.