A review of " Happy birthday" short film by Mahsa Alinghian

The short film "Happy Birthday" written, produced, and directed by Vahid Qanatabadi, is an example of a low-cost short film in production, which impresses the audience with a brilliant idea and makes them empathize with the subject, characters, and story, more than anything else.

Maybe the one-line script doesn't have a novel idea, but using the selfie camera technique and talking to the camera with an unseen audience, and telling the story of a couple in pseudo-documentary technique to save the idea and push it towards a brilliant film.

Also, this technique tells the story of the couple's relationship in the best possible way, and even when the main character is a man, the woman’s character is so considerable, and at the end of the story where she is not present In front of the camera, we can empathize with her.

The use of other elements such as the fish that is dead and the cat that lives in the couple's house helps to create the atmosphere of the film and completes the characterizations and shows the feeling of having a family and children in this couple.