Amy is standing by the grave of his grandfather, an army General whose heart has suddenly stopped. When she is afraid of letting go and accepting she has to deal with her feelings and believe that he is gone, she replays in her head a memory from him of a sunny day in a park when she was only five years old and afraid of going in the playground, on the slide.
Madeline starts her shift in the bar she works at with her boyfriend on their first anniversary day. They are waiting for a singer man to arrive, whom she is planing to help two strangers murder. When the shift ends she is surprised by a gift from her boyfriend, but also by what it shows her.
A man must shutter his father’s auto business after losing him to the pandemic, but closing his father’s books also means confronting his decisions.
Noushin is an Iranian immigrant living in New York City. She is going back to performing in a dance after being out of practice, in an unconventional but famous Sufi and Master's gathering. When Noushin finally trusts the music to let go and dance in front of him, everything seems to be going back in circles to what she is most afraid of.
Ana comes to the capital with her long hair and big dreams to study journalism. She gets a short haircut that she hates and she starts to write a journal about an erased part of the history that she gets in to trouble with the system, in the way of publishing it. Overtime this struggle makes her a different person who is more angry and hopeless. She keeps looking at the mirror wishing her hair would grow back, but then she finds her hair in the perfect length just minutes before her execution in the jail.
The Dark Room, a place everyone has been at once, is the story of Mia a woman who decides to design a room so similar to a womb, and live in that with the minimal contact possible with the outside world, for the wish she has and we all may have to get back to the most safe and lovely place that we were satisfied and we had everything we wanted in. This experience changes her in different ways and she starts to look strange and scary to the rest of people, but an incident connects her life with a woman who has opposite lifestyle and ideas and is trying so hard to find happiness in her crowded everyday life. Susan who is in a business trip planing to go back home with a flight and make it to her sons birthday party, finds the roots of hating his own child for what he has brought to her life and how he has changed her, after meeting Mia. They get to know each other, they get close, and both of them finds themselves not so sure of what is right or wrong about their ideas of life, happiness, and purpose.
Faranak was born and raised in Esfahan, Iran. Interested in Persian literature from a very young age, she started writing and later publishing poems by the time she was in high school and received awards in young adult poetry competitions in Iran. As her style in poetry became more visual she found herself interested in exploring screenwriting and cinema.
She moved to the United States where she attended Montclair State University for her BFA in filmmaking and made the short films The Dark Room (2017) and Mirror (2018), both exploring social themes and female protagonists inspired by her own personal experiences as an Iranian immigrant. She started her studies at Columbia University MFA Film program in 2020, where she has explored her interest in both surrealism and realism in filmmaking.
Faranak has written and directed short films Sufi (2021) and Black Red White (2021), The Big Red Balloon (2022), Kisses and Bullets (2024) and directed Auto Plus (2021) and InkShop (2023). Her work has screened in festivals such as Richmond International Film Festival, New York Lift Off, New York IO Film Festival, Farhang Film Festival, and more.
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