About the movie

Life is the mysterious gap between birth and death. Birth, is a flip, forcing us to conceptualize it. And finally the death, the song of the collapse of this concept.

Is there any escape?!

In this mysterious fear, art and love are our only guardians guiding us through this conceptual change and relieving some pain.

Awards & Honors

Aurora Film Festival 2020

LIFFT INDIA FILMOTSAV - World Cine Fest 2020

AMERTA FILM FESTIVAL 2021

Top Indie Film Awards 2021

Two nominations

at the Top Indie Film Awards,

🔹Best Actor (Vahid Ghanatabadi)

🔹Best Original Idea (Vahid Ghanatabadi)

Kolkata International Micro Film Festival - imffkolkata 2021

Beyond Earth Film Festival 2021

International Legnano Film Festival - ILEFF 2021

The Lift-Off Sessions 2021

Director's biography:

Statement

About life, not death…

‏A similar incident in my life inspired me to make a film. To convey this emotional experience without an intermediary, I resorted to recording selfies with a mobile phone. The form by which one may be able to narrate the most personal concerns. My concern in this film is the intertwined concepts of death and life. It is the very same death that gives meaning to life. A moment dies and another moment is born. Life is the continuous flow of deaths and births. In the film, the death of the fish gives the good news of a baby’s birth, encourages the wife and husband to make a film for it, and talks about their worries and hopes, their fears and dreams. In the end, the death of the baby in the mother’s belly is giving the good news of another life. After the death of the baby, we don’t have any image of the wife and husband because their audience is dead. But life still goes on; in the traffic pileup on the motorway, while a gentle rain lands on the windscreen. Life is these pure little moments.

The cycle of birth, death & rebirth

The documentary film "Happy Birthday" is about the cycle of birth, life and death. Therefore, it can be related to the word samsara. Many Asian people, including India, believe in Buddhism that the material cycle of life revolves forever between birth, death and rebirth. The opposite word of this word is nirvana which means freedom from this cycle. the subject is released from the effects of karma and the cycle of death and rebirth. It represents the final goal of Buddhism.

Mobile phone films

With the improvement of technology and the increase of mobile capabilities, the use of mobile phones to make short and feature films due to its cost and easy access, becomes one of the most popular methods for making movies, music videos and animations.

About "pregnancy in Iran"

Pregnancy is one of the most difficult times in a woman's life. There are many mental and physical challenges in this era. One of these challenges is the possibility of abortion.

Various factors, including genetic and environmental factors, affect abortion. Environmental factors that may increase the risk of miscarriage include lead, arsenic, some industrial chemicals such as formaldehyde, benzene, ethylene oxide, and high volumes of radiation or anesthetic gases.

In Iran, due to the high volume of pollution, one of the concerns of pregnant mothers is environmental factors.