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"The Loser" short film

A film By " Mehdi Haselpour"

Genre: Fiction

Subject: Human Rights

Length: 14 minutes

Production year: 2022


Summary:

A garbage man and woman have an unwanted baby from an unmarried relationship. The man does not want the illegitimate child and suggests the woman leave it on the way. She refuses because of her maternal affection. The man is sure they will not be able to raise the child, so he takes the baby and in the conflict between holding the child by the woman and denying himself, he intends to throw the child off the bridge but immediately gives up.

He leaves the child in front of a luxurious house in the hope that it will have a different destiny, but the woman arrives and prevents. Finally, he has to take the baby and throw it in the trash bin. Years have passed and the woman is looking for food in the trash and her mind is morbidly involved in the loss of her baby in the past. A man from the affluent class gives her a meal and puts a smile on her face. The two parts of the story are told in parallel and finally…


Behind the scene photos

Director's resume

Born: 1981.10.27; Shiraz, Iran Master of Directing; Tarbiat-modarres University; Tehran

Short film

1. Ladder; 2003 2. Wandering; 2017 3. One game, one doubt; 2017 4. Solitude season; 2019 5. Parasites ending; 2019 6. Such attractive; 2019 7. Empty room; 2019 8. Production manager of "one step to heaven" series Director: Safarpour; Hamid, 2020              9. Production manager of "maternal" movie Director: ZahiriMehr; Maryam Yasouj; 2019  10. Head of the "Time display" group; registration NO. 96/219365; Date: 16.07.1396 from performing arts office of Iran.

Acting

  1. Lack; short film; Scriptwriter: Emamimoghaddam, Hadi  Director: Roosta,Hamidreza  Marvdasht, 2017
  2. Haft pich (seven turns); TV series Director: Nikoomanesh, Ali Shiraz, 2014-2015
  3. Tabriz in fog; TV series Director: Varzi, Mohammadreza Tehran, 2010

Directing:

  1. Ladder; short film, 2003
  2. Clue 1 Ducumentary Marvdasht, 2017
  3. Wandering; short film Tehran, 2017

Awards

1. Special acting award for "Happy christmass prisoner NO.1" Director: Ranjbar, Zahra; Provincial festival Marvdasht; 2001

2. Selective award of story writing for "Mirage thirsty"; Ravagh festival Tabriz; 2006

3. Second award of acting for humor festival of North of Fars, +18 play Scriptwriting and director: EmamiMoghaddam, Hadi Safashahr; 2015



Cast and crew

Screen writer and director: Mehdi Haselpour, Producer: Mina Aslani , Cast: Dorna Zarei, Khalegh Ostovari

Director Advisor: Morteza Farzan, Assistant director and planner: Hamidreza Safarpour, Director of photography: Amin Bagheri

Sound engineer: Hamid Hami, Music: Abbas Sarafraz, Editor: Shima Poursahmodin, Make Up: Farzaneh Radfar

Acting coach: Rouhalah Ranjbari, Production Manager: Mehdi Haselpour, Script Supervisor: Fatemeh Jamshidi


Trailer

Director's Statement

Scavenging or garbage collection is a topic of concern all over the world, which clearly shows the class gap in societies. Garbage collectors have a common destiny in all countries and experience unique life; carton sleeping, addiction and … .

The Loser tells the story of a woman involved in a conflict between giving her baby up and holding it in a society that do not tolerate the illegitimate children. A dilemma that is today the crisis of many women and has overlooked by the society. Society views these women as a different class, pervert, prostitute, and rejected, despite the fact that they have the same feelings and psychological needs as other members of the society and perhaps unfavorable living conditions make them as different.


About "poverty"

Poverty is a result of increasing population and price inflation in Iran.

According to the head of the Institute for Economic Studies in Iran, the population below the poverty line has doubled in the last three years.

"The loser" is about the problems and lack of justice in the society.


Awards & Honors

"shocking news about a baby in Tehran"

A newborn baby was found in a trash bin in Tehran. The baby, whose umbilical cord had not yet been removed, was placed in two white and black plastic bags in a trash bin and was taken out of the bin by a citizen. Welfare of Tehran Province announced the identification of more than 150 new born babies in the last 2 months and said: Stray children are the current welfare problem.

"Class differences in Iran"

According to the report of Forbes magazine, 0.3 percent of the population of Iran has assets of about 250 billion dollars.

According to the World Bank, Iran's GDP is 191 billion dollars.

This means that these people have more assets than the GDP, while Some people have nothing to eat.

Class differences in Iran have been increasing unprecedentedly in recent years.

There is the risk for the middle class of society to disappear.



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