Director Brwa Vahabpour’s Silence tells the story of a young deaf girl who struggles to fit in. This topical short, which looks closely at social isolation, will be screening at the Oscar-qualifying Odense International Film Festival in August.
Synopsis: A Kurdish girl is deaf and her parents cannot afford to send her to a special school. The girl, therefore, fights against everything.
Director Brwa Vahabpour has directed numerous short films such as Pomegranate and The Shepherd. The Shepherd went on to win an array of awards such as the Best Fictional Film Award at the 2019 Boston Short Film Festival, winning the Grand Prix at 2019 Festival International Des Ecoles De Cinema De Tetouan. Vahabpour also won The Nordic Talents Honorable Mention in 2018 and the Screen Talent Europe Pitch Prize in 2019 for his short film Silence. He is currently developing a feature-length version of Silence alongside Oslo Picture.
The Official Trailer for Silence written and directed by Brwa Vahabpour
Producer Renée Hansen Mlodyszewski has worked in the film and television industry for 10 years on productions such as Lilyhammer, Downsizing, and has produced several short films. Today, Renée works in the production company Oslo Pictures where she has been an assistant producer on the feature films The Worst Person in the World by Joachim Trier and Hope by Maria Sødahl. In addition to this, Renée has feature films in development with the directors Brwa Vahabpour, Fanny Ovesen, Johanna Pyykkö, and Truls Krane Meby and is producing the feature film Explosions in the Heart with Yenni Lee as director.
Cinematographer Lukasz Zamaro moved to Norway to develop his career in Oslo where he now is a member of a Norwegian Society of Cinematographers (FNF). He has worked with directors such as Hisham Zaman, Izer Aliu, Tove Undheim, Egil Pedersen, Marius Myrmel, and Brwa Vahabpour on feature films, TV-series and short films.
Silence screening at Odense International Film Festival August 24th at 1:30 pm, August 25th at 8:45 pm, August 26th at 8:30 pm, and August 27th at 9:15 am.
The cast are Ebru Ayse Cakir (Bahar), Adbil Abdulrahman (Doctor), Ilaf Chiya (Sisters), Hussein Hassan (Father), Nojin Kamiran (Sisters), and Shabu Solimany (Mother),
The crew includes Director & Writer Brwa Vahabpour; Executive Producer Mehmet Aktas, Lea Drescher, Dyveke Bjørkly Graver; Producer Renée Hansen Mlodyszewski; Director of Photography Lukasz Zamaro; Costume Serwa Aloveisi, Katharina Nesterowa; Casting Adbil Abdulrahman, Brwa Vahabpour; Sound Rooz Ahmadian, Matias Frøystad; Production Design Jalal Saed Panah; Editor Brynjar Lien Aune, Make UpNasrin Ahankhay; Music Matias Frøystad.
Brwa Vahabpour is a Kurdish-Norwegian filmmaker from Trondheim. He graduated from Nordland College of Art and Film in 2014 before attending The Norwegian Film School. Brwa directed the short films In Good Company, Smile, and Pomegranate with the latter receiving Honourable Mention at the Norwegian Short Film Festival in 2017. Brwa Vahabpour is known for his work on Silence (2020), Det gode selskap or the good company (2015) and I Dine Øyne or In your eyes (2014).
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