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‘Mitosis’ picked for competition at Russia’s Echo BRICS Film Festival
The annual, in-person festival is set to screen entries from a broad slate of countries, including Poland, Britain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Iran, underscoring the event’s widening geographic footprint on the Eurasian cultural circuit.
Echo BRICS is regarded as one of Russia’s established international film platforms, awarding prizes across feature, documentary and short formats, as well as acting, screenwriting and directing categories, according to ILNA.
‘Mitosis’ was written by Ali Safari and produced by Anahita Mogouei alongside Soran Karimi. Iranian actors Mehdi Abouhamzeh and Farid Zangi lead the cast.
The short centers on moments of rapid decision-making and their lasting consequences, a narrative approach that has helped the film gain traction on the global festival calendar.
The film previously received an honorable mention for best film at the World Culture Festival in Karachi, Pakistan, an event that has scaled up quickly into the country’s largest cultural showcase.
More than 1,000 artists from 140 countries took part in the Karachi festival’s second edition, which combined film screenings with theater, photography and visual arts programming.
Beyond South Asia, ‘Mitosis’ has screened in Europe and Latin America, including at the Norwich Film Festival in eastern England and Colombia’s Palooza Film Festival.