There Was One - there Was None
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Short Fiction
Two young Iranian women now living worlds apart - one in Iran, one in The
Netherlands - still exchange video messages about their daily lives, desires and complex struggles. Fleeting glimpses of the past reveal the intimacy that still binds them, while a final conversation carries a quiet tension, reflecting the subtle drift of their lives and selves.
Yasmin Shahbarami | Director
Yasmin is a multidisciplinary artist, whose bicultural upbringing between Iran and the Netherlands fostered an early fascination with storytelling and visual language. With a background in the theatre industry in Iran, she went on to study Fine Arts before graduating in Audio-Visual Design in Rotterdam.
Her work moves through themes of identity, social and political structures, and psychological–spiritual inquiry. She explores how experimental and narrative forms can blur, disrupt, and reorient perception. Weaving her lived experiences into her projects, and allowing the work to fold back into daily life, she approaches art as an ongoing dialogue between personal history and the world around her.
Director:
Yasmin Shahbarami
Iran Crew:
Starring:
SHIRIN TAYEBI
Script Advisor:
ELAHE POURSAND
Project Manager:
AMIR PIRSALEHI
Line Producer:
POUYAN REZAEI
Director of Photography:
ALI HASHEMI
Assistant Camera:
ASENA JAFARI
Gaffer:
ALI HASHEMI
Assistant Director:
ELNAZ YAGHOUBI
Stylist:
ELNAZ YAGHOUBI
The Netherlands Crew:
Starring:
SOODEH LASHKARI
Producer:
YASMIN SHAHBAHRAMI
Director of Photography:
FY MEIJER
Assistant Camera:
ESE ROEPER
Gaffer:
TITUS VONK
Stylist:
SARA JOOSHESH
Production Assistant:
FU JIAN
Post Production:
Editor:
JULIA SCHMIDT
Original Music, Sound Design & Mix:
UnsPro
Colorist:
HAMIDREZA FATOUREHCHIAN
Farsi Title Design:
ARAD MOUSAVI
Graphic Design Poster:
MATIN KHEYBALI