I DO NOT!
Written & Directed by Yasmine Asha
Comedy | 15 min | USA | 2022
Ahead of her planned wedding celebration, Samira the Arab would-be bride, becomes disillusioned with the groom and runs out into an open field to escape. Amir, the Iranian groom, follows suit to console her. He is worried deeply, for her, and perhaps even more so for his own family reputation. When the couple's concerned families catch up with them, the personal confrontation between the would-be weds unravels into a blame-game between two sides. Unfolding in an open field, accusations and revelations reveal secrets, prejudices, contested family values, and age-old rifts between Arabs and Iranians.
USA Film Festival
2023 Winner Best Short
Los Angeles Comedy Film Festival 365
2023 Nominee Best Short
LA Shorts International Film Festival
2023 Nominee Best Short
Houston Comedy Film Festival
2023 Nominee Best Short
Amsterdam Lift-Off Global Network
2023 Nominee Best Short
Berlin Lift-Off Global Network
2024 Nominee Best Short
- Running time - 15 min.
- Language - English, Farsi
- Locations - Los Angeles
- Color - Color
- Format - 16:9
WRITER & DIRECTOR
Yasmine Asha
PRODUCERS
Farshid Rafe Rafahi, Lidiya Korotko, Navid Navid, Yasmine Asha
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Jason Almendinger, Laura Odermatt
SOUND RECORDING
Daniel Parker
SOUND DESIGN
Frederik Pfeiffer
SCORE
Korolkov
EDITING
Julian Claborn, Yasmine Asha
COLORIST
Michael Jörg
ART DIRECTOR
Kelsey Joyce
WARDROBE
Crista Rivera, MUAH DEPARTMENT, Becca Ruzicka, Alexsea Davis
CASTING
Yasmine Asha
- David Diaan
- Jann Karam
- Lidiya Korotko
- Navid Navid
- Savannah Southern-Smith
- Shila Ommi
- Tuesday White