2021: Osa Ebrahim

Video Essay
by Kamran Heidari

This episode of our 2021 video series portrays the Iranian sorna player Ebrahim Salmanpor Qashqai. «I am the most famous Qashqai wedding sorna player in Fars province and no one has ever been better than me», he says while looking back on his life, his performances at Qashqai weddings, and the challenges the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to his people.

The Qashqai tribe is one of the great nomadic tribes from Southern Iran. The life of the Qashqai people is shaped by constant migration to reach either more tropical or colder climatic zones. In the meantime, their music and dance are inextricably linked to their lives.


Credits

A film by Kamran Heidari

Mahmoodreza Zarinchang, assistant director, was born in 1980 in shiraz, Iran. He is an experimental director with eight years of experience working alongside the executive teams of film making. Mahmoodreza is a civil engineer which is educating in cinema and filmmaking courses and he is inspired by Kamran Heidari and his Filmmaking style for two years. He made five short film as director, assistant director, production manager and likes to photography, imaging, and calligraphy. Follow him on Instagram.

Farshad Abbasi, editor, was born in 1991, in Shiraz, he has an MA in mechanical engineering. He started his cinematic practices when he was 20 years old. He made four short films, including Radio, Entropy, In Between and Sadi Carno. He has his performance as editor in documentary and cinematic works of producers such Kamran Heidari and other film makers. Follow him on Instagram.

For the 2021 edition of the Norient Film Festival NFF, Norient commissioned ten artists around the world to work on short artistic media pieces. They were asked to reflect on their personal thoughts of «2021». How do they see and describe the world they live in? How do they see the present and the future? What sounds, clips, media pieces, and thoughts give hope for «2021» and for the future? What makes them angry, hopeful, depressed, suicidal, or happy?

Biography

Kamran Heidari was born in Gachsaran, near Shiraz, Iran, in 1977. He is a freelance documentary filmmaker and photographer, with an interest in street photography, graffiti, and ethno-music. His work focuses on film and photography about the people of Shiraz (Fars Province) and the South of Iran. «My Name Is Negahdar Jamali» and «I Make Westerns» (2012), his first feature length documentary was screened in many festivals around the world, among which Busan International Film Festival and Rotterdam. His latest work «Ali Agha» premiered at IDFA in 2017. «Ahle Hawa», his current project, would be his fifth feature length film. Follow him on Instagram, SoundCloud, or on his Website.

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Published on February 26, 2021

Last updated on April 11, 2024

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