Short filmmaker and Wiftie Lee Li has completed her film Sahar and has begun her festival run, including submissions to NZIFF and Show Me Shorts.
Lee Li is the producer alongside writer/director/producer Yera Kheiri, and their story is that of a young Afghan woman who is promised a new life in New Zealand through an arranged marriage, and is forced to confront both the expectations of her culture and her own yearning for independence.
Rising star Han Guo shot this film, and for those in the know, it was shot on the ARRI Alexa Mini LF!
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