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NOMINEE – Best Documentary Short

Zainab is a successful girl volleyball player who considers herself a boy in spirit, and now she has decided to undergo gender transition. If she does this, she will lose her professional future forever due to her short stature, as well as her livelihood – jeopardizing her family.

Directed by Iranmehr Salimi

Director’s Bio: Born in 1994, Iranmehr Salimi learned painting at the age of 14 and received her BA in Television and Digital Arts from Iran Broadcasting University at age 19. She received her MA in Animation Directing from Tarbiat Modares University and won Iran’s student painting competition in 2012. “Unnamed” is her first film as a director.

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