“Metamorphosis in the Slaughterhouse”
SAFF 2021 Award Winner
Shadi is a little girl that her parents have been accused of murdering a girl in the village, and villagers killed her parents to seek revenge. Her uncle adops her and now Shadi must face the problems that people of the village caused them.
Director Biography
Javad Daraei, an Iranian director and filmmaker, was born in Khorramabad in 1992. After high school, he became interested in cinema and went to the University of Tehran, where he began filming as a student in 2016. His first two short films, I don’t like her (2016) and Limit (2017), were screened at festivals around the world. He does most of his filmmaking alone, including screenwriting, directing, cinematography, editing, and color correction, and he has won international awards in all sectors. He believes filmmakers should produce the best film at the lowest cost and learn all the parts of filmmaking professionally, and doesn’t wait for the big investor. His first feature film, Metamorphosis in the Slaughterhouse, came out in 2021 and will be screened around the world.
Director’s Statement
We do not expect any investor or producer to just create in avant-garde at the lowest cost