Country: Sweden
Year: 2025
Duration: 10'
Two revolutionaries kidnap the child of a Swedish politician to prevent a vote on a draconian law that would allow the state to strip people of their citizenship. The story unfolds in real time inside a Persian restaurant, where tensions rise between ideology, power, and survival. When the police arrive outside for an unrelated reason, the situation begins to spiral out of control.
Biography
film director
Sepehr Nosrati
(Sweden), director and screenwriter, graduated in 2025 from the Stockholm University of the Arts. Among his short films are the social satire White Guilt (2024), presented at the Swedish institution Hagabion, and the political thriller 175 (2025). Selected as an emerging talent to participate in the Bergman Week at the Bergman Center on the island of Fårö, Sweden, he is currently developing a short film, Halv, which was presented at the pitching sessions of Film Stockholm and the Norwegian Short Film Festival in Grimstad, where it received an honorable mention, as well as a feature film, Snowfall in April, presented at Nordic Talents, where it also received a special mention.
FILMOGRAFIA
White Guilt (cm, 2024), 175 (cm, 2025).
Declaration
film director
“I consider myself Swedish, but with two immigrant parents from Iran, I also feel deeply Persian. That tension, being in between, is what draws me to stories about polarization. 175 is about people on opposite sides, both convinced they’re doing the right thing. But what happens when all sides begin to justify extreme actions? What happens when no one is fully innocent anymore? During his youth, my father fought for equality in Iran, but watched his revolution turn more oppressive than what came before. From him, I realized that even Western democracy is fragile, and that people will do bad things if they think it’s the only way to survive. This film asks: How far are we willing to go when we feel out of time? And what happens when we reach the edge of our ethics?”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Sepehr Nosrati. STORY: Sepehr Nosrati, Walter Behrman. SCREENPLAY: Walter Behrman. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Sofie Bergh. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Tilda Aspelin. COSTUME DESIGN: Idah Sanderson. MUSIC: Joakim Paasonen. SOUND: Filip Evenius. CAST: Nora Rios, Roshi Hoss, Isa Aouifia, Einar Alvarado Lönberg, Lukas Loughran, Ivar Forsling, Filip Jönsson, David Wall, Nils Westman, Jesper Widström. PRODUCER: Melisa Ferhatovic.
CONTACT: Sepehr Nosrati sepehr.n98@gmail.com
