Title:The Needle

wo young, optimistic doctors are taken aback when they visit a village to vaccinate children only to find out that children are not aware and scared of vaccines and needles. Still, their parents do not move a finger to help their children get vaccinated. Things take an ugly turn when they are unable to even locate these children. Will these two true-to-their professionals be able to bring an end to this menace and make the needle sound less scary and more important?

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Director(s):

Yousef Jafari

Country:

Iran

Language:

Persian dialogue, with Arabic & English subtitle

Categories

International Short Film

Duration:

19 minutes

Production Year:

2022 (Middle East Premiere)

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Yousef Jafari

Yousef Jafari was born in 1990. He completed his B.A. of TV directing from IRIB University. He has made some documentaries and ads for TV and received an award for Image- Animation Documentary in the year 2013 for the third best film in La Rana Film Feestival in Spain (2014), and an award for Chocolate Story- Documentary in 2017. He’s also the winner of the best director in Kargil Film Festival in India. “The Needle” was directed and written by Yousef Jafari and produced by Hossein Darabi in 2022.