Sadaf Foroughi
Sadaf Foroughi is an Iranian-Canadian, Montreal-based filmmaker. She began her artistic career in 2003 by creating and producing short films, documentaries and video art. Foroughi graduated with an MA in Film Studies from the University of Provence, and obtained a degree in Film Production from the New York Film Academy.
Sadaf’s debut feature film AVA had its premier in the Toronto International Film Festival.
Sadaf Foroughi Ava
Type of Art: Film
Dates: Sept 13th @ 7 pm
Location: Halifax Central Library – Paul O’Regan Hall
Seventeen-year-old Iranian Ava challenges the strict rules of her traditional upbringing and learns that her mother broke the rules as a young woman as well. Ava’s first visit to the gynecologist with her mother is a traumatic experience for the 16-year-old young woman. Trauma gives way to anger when Ava discovers her mother’s dishonesty and learn of the rules she broke, when she was the age Ava is now. Bewildered and enraged, Ava attempts and fails suicide at school. To avoid being expelled, she accepts a deal to snitch on her classmates, but a guilty conscience is a heavy burden. Misunderstood by her parents and tormented by school, Ava decides on a third way forward.
Prismatic is honoured to be presenting Ava, which has won numerous awards at Toronto International Film Festival
(2017) and the Canadian Screen Awards (2018), including best first film and best actress in a supporting role.
