Vomiting On An Open Wound

Year: 2023

Length: 25 mins

Country: Iran / United States

Language: Persian

Premiere: NYC Premiere

Directed by: Alireza Sharifi

Produced by: Alireza Sharifi

Starring: Amin Mahmoudi (The Motorcyclist), Mohammad Maleknia, Mahsa Akbar Abadi, Maryam Gorji, Armin Khoshnik, and Nazanin Yousefi

Content Warnings: Explicit Sexual Situations‎, Non-Explicit Sexual Situations‎, Implied Violence‎, Graphic Violence‎

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Saturday Feb 22, 5:10 PM-8:20 PM – Bloody Saturday Horror Shorts Program + QA

Thursday Feb 20, 3:20 PM-5:40 PM – Thursday Matinee Horror Shorts

Five young unmarried girls and boys travel to northern Iran, where due to restrictions on renting hotels or safe villas for singles, they are forced to rent a cabin from a motorcyclist who turns out to be a pervert.

About the Director

Alireza Sharifi is an Iranian writer and director and an MFA Film student in Directing and Screenwriting at Columbia University. A graduate of Tehran University of Art, he directed two acclaimed short films, RUSSIAN ROULETTE and VOMITING ON AN OPEN WOUND, which showcased at festivals. He has completed Oscar-winning Filmmaker Asghar Farhadi’s directing course, and his work merges Iranian drama’s emotional depth with American genre films’ stylistic elements.

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Awards

2023 Nahal International Student Short Film Festival (Iran) – Best Editing (Initial version)
2023 Up and Coming International Film Festival (Germany) – Best International Short Film (nominee)
2023 Spooky Empire’s Horror International Film Festival – Best Screenplay (nominee)
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