Unibrow

Canada202314 minEnglish, Farsi with English subtitles2slgbtq+, Comedy, Drama

An Iranian Canadian girl reluctantly makes a new friend when the new student from Iran offers to help fix her ruined unibrow — for her, a symbol of the Iranian heritage she tries desperately to hide from the world.

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Directors Bio

*Nedda Sarshar

Nedda Sarshar is an emerging filmmaker and writer who loves to tell stories that centre queer women of colour and their immigrant families. Sarshar won Reel Asian’s Pitch Competition in 2021 with this work.

This film is part of the Shorts Presentation: UNDER THE INFLUENCE shorts programme.

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