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Herakles
- Director
- Mohammad Nezhad
- Country
- Germany, Iran
- Running time
- 6 Min.
- Language
- German
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Synopsis
In an absurd slapstick world, a mother forces a barber to cut her son's hair. But the barber controls not only the scissors, but also the editing of the film itself. Caught between these two forms of control, the boy struggles to reclaim power over his own image.
Director
Mohammad Nezhad
Sav Nezhad is an independent Iranian filmmaker from Tabriz, currently based in Berlin. His work explores the intersection of experimental cinema and comedy.
He also worked as an assistant director to renowned Canadian-Armenian filmmaker Atom Egoyan at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin.