''Retouch'' ( fa, روتوش ''Rutuš'') is an Iranian short film directed by

Kaveh Mazaheri Kaveh Mazaheri ( fa, کاوه مظاهری; born 14 September 1981 in Tehran) is an Iranian Director and Scriptwriter. He started his work by writing a film critique in magazines. After graduating in railway engineering from Iran University o ...

, which was co-produced by Kaveh Mazaheri and Iranian Youth Cinema Society (IYCS). The film is one of the most successful Iranian short films that won the Best Short Fiction Film Award from the

Fajr Film Festival Iran's annual Fajr International Film Festival ( fa, جشنواره بین‌المللی فیلم فجر), or Fajr Film Festival (little: FIFF; fa, جشنواره فیلم فجر), has been held every February and April in Tehran since 1982. T ...

and the best international film festivals such as Tribeca, Krakow, Palm Springs, Stockholm, Ojai, Tirana and Traverse City. Retouch has enjoyed a successful film festival run, winning at three Oscar qualifying film festivals, including: Tribeca Film Festival (Best Narrative Short), Palm Springs Shortfest (Best Live Action Over 15 Min) and the Krakow Film Festival (Silver Dragon for Best Short Fiction Film).

Plot

Maryam's husband has an accident at home and, rather than saving him, she stops helping and watches him die.

Awards

Short Waves Festival Short Waves Festival is an annual international short film film festival, festival held in Poznań, Poznań, Poland. Its main characteristic is inclusion of not only live-action, documentary and animated films, but also music videos, experimental ...

(Poland 2018)- Winner International Competition 2nd Award *

Tribeca Film Festival The Tribeca Festival is an annual film festival organized by TriBeCa Productions, Tribeca Productions. It takes place each spring in New York City, showcasing a diverse selection of film, episodic, talks, music, games, art, and immersive progra ...

(USA 2017)- Winner Best Narrative Short, Winner Jury Prize *

Kraków Film Festival The Kraków Film Festival ( pl, Krakowski Festiwal Filmowy) is one of Europe's oldest events dedicated to documentary, animation and other short film forms. It has been organised every year since 1961. The Artistic President of the festival is ...

(Poland 2017)- Winner Best Short Fiction Film, Winner Don Quixote Award *

Palm Springs International ShortFest The Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films (a.k.a. Palm Springs International ShortFest) held annually in Palm Springs, California is the largest film festival for short films in the United States.Fajr Film Festival Iran's annual Fajr International Film Festival ( fa, جشنواره بین‌المللی فیلم فجر), or Fajr Film Festival (little: FIFF; fa, جشنواره فیلم فجر), has been held every February and April in Tehran since 1982. T ...

(Iran 2017)-Winner Best Short Film (Crystal Simorgh Prize) * Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival (Portugal 2017) - Winner Audience Award, Nominated Grand Prize *

Stockholm International Film Festival The Stockholm International Film Festival ( sv, Stockholms filmfestival, italic=no) is an annual film festival held in Stockholm, Sweden. It was launched in 1990 and has been held every year since then during the second half of November. The w ...

(Sweden 2017) – Winner Best Short Film *

Traverse City Film Festival The Traverse City Film Festival is an annual film festival held at the end of July in Traverse City, Michigan. The festival was created as an annual event in 2005 to help “save one of America's few indigenous art forms—the cinema". The event ...

(USA 2017) - Winner Best Short Fiction Film * Hancheng International Short Film Festival (China 2017) - Winner 3rd Prize for Best Short Film of Silk Road Competition * Ojai Film Festival (USA 2017) – Winner Best Narrative Short * Tirana International Film Festival (Albania 2017) – Winner Best Short Fiction * Wine Country Film Festival-WCFF (USA 2017) – Winner “COURAGE IN CINEMA” AWARD * Festival Tous Courts (France 2017) – Winner Jury Prize * Almería International Film Festival (Spain 2017) – Winner Best Screenplay * Iranian Film Festival – San Francisco (USA 2017) – Winner Best Screenplay for Short Film * Asiana International Short Film Festival (Korea 2017) – Winner Jury Special Mention * São Paulo International Short Film Festival (Brazil 2017) – Winner Audience Favorite Prize, Nominated Best Film * Bosphorus International Film Festival (Turkey 2017) – Winner Best International Short Fiction Film *

Moscow International Film Festival The Moscow International Film Festival (russian: Моско́вский междунаро́дный кинофестива́ль, translit. ''Moskóvskiy myezhdunaródniy kinofyestivál''; abbreviated as MIFF) is the film festival first h ...

(Russia 2017) – Nominated Best Film of the Short Film Competition (Silver St. George) *

Durban International Film Festival The Durban International Film Festival (DIFF) is an annual film festival that takes place in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa. Founded in 1979 by Teddy Sarkin and Ros Sarkin, it is the oldest and largest film festival in Africa an ...

(South Africa 2017)- Nominated Best International Short Film * Dokufest International Documentary and Short Film Festival (Kosovo 2017) - Nominated Best Fiction Short Film * Encounters Film Festival (UK 2017) – Nominated Best Film *

Moondance International Film Festival The Moondance International Film Festival is an independent annual film festival and awards competition in the USA that takes place in the fall. The first Moondance Film Festival was held in 2000. The festival has usually been held in Boulder, Co ...

(USA 2017) – Nominated Best Short Film *

Tallgrass Film Festival The Tallgrass Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Wichita, Kansas, specializing in independent films. It was founded in 2003 by Timothy Gruver. Gruver was raised in Wichita. He studied filmmaking at Brigham Young University. After c ...

(USA 2017) – Nominated Best Short Film * Tacoma Film Festival (USA 2017) – Nominated Best Short Film *

Sedicicorto International Film Festival The Sedicicorto International Film Festival (sometimes stylised as 16corto) is a competitive short film festival held each October in the Italian city of Forlì since 2004. History In March 2004, the Sedicicorto Association was founded in Forlì ...

(Italy 2017) – Nominated Best Short Film *

Chicago International Film Festival The Chicago International Film Festival is an annual film festival held every fall. Founded in 1964 by Michael Kutza, it is the longest-running competitive film festival in North America. Its logo is a stark, black and white close up of the comp ...

(USA 2017) – Nominated Gold Hugo for Best Fiction Short Film *

Valladolid International Film Festival The Valladolid International Film Festival, popularly known as Seminci (short for ; ), is a film festival held annually in Valladolid, Spain. First held in 1956 as ('Valladolid Religious Film Week'), the Seminci is one of the longest-standing fi ...

-Seminci (Spain 2017) – Nominated Best Foreign Short at Meeting Point Section

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