Vomiting On An Open Wound
2023
Iran / United States
25 mins
Persian
NYC Premiere
Winter FEAR Awards Horror Film Competition
| Alireza Sharifi | |
| Alireza Sharifi | |
| Amin Mahmoudi (The Motorcyclist), Mohammad Maleknia, Mahsa Akbar Abadi, Maryam Gorji, Armin Khoshnik, and Nazanin Yousefi | |
| Explicit Sexual Situations; Non-Explicit Sexual Situations; Implied Violence; Graphic Violence |
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)
