Etude of Silence (2026)

Etude of Silence (Iran, 2026, 17 min) is a haunting Iranian short film about a young aspiring actress who scrapes by on the fringes of the movie business, endlessly hired to play corpses, victims, and wordless bodies in low-budget productions. Day after day, she performs death for the camera—until the line between acting and real life starts to blur. What follows is an unsettling dive into invisibility and self-erasure, as her repeated roles as the silent dead begin to reshape her sense of who she is.