My Forelove is a seven-minute dramatic short film written and directed by Mor Dovrat that will be featured in the Short Film Corner of the Cannes Film Festival. My Forelove's screening at the Cannes Film Festival will be the world premiere of the short film.

Los Angeles, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 05/20/2016 -- Mor Dovrat is an actress, screenwriter, director, and producer. She has undergone extensive education, most of which has been based in theater making and acting, in both cinema and theater. Dovrat attended high school in Israel from 1997 to 2001, where she began her education in the arts with a major in theater. Between 2007 and 2010, she continued to study theater at the Sofy Moskowitch studio in Tel-aviv, Israel. To expand her theater education further, Dovrat attended a year-long workshop from 2009 to 2010 that specialized in on-camera acting, where she was instructed by Moshe Mizrahi, a director who has previously won an Oscar for his work in film. Finally, from 2013 to 2016, Dovrat rounded out her theatrical education by mastering in Physical Theater in Switzerland at the Scuola Teatro Dimitri.

Along her studies, Mor Dovrat has an abundance of experience in acting and directing both on screen and on stage. Already with 17 years she directed an all-female version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest at the Natanya's City Theater. She played several roles in theater throughout the next two decades. She played Stella in A Streetcar Named Desiree in 2009, Annett Eu la Mere de Madame in 2010, The Duchess in Jeep on the Hill in 2010, Actress in Mini-Mono in 2010, The Joker in Roof in 2010, and Actress in E Amore o Stato di Emergenza in 2014. In 2016, Mor Dovrat also acted in and directed a theatrical production called Aber-Glaube. Dovrat has acted in several on-screen productions throughout the years as well. In 2009, she played an Extra in Jerusalem Mix on television. In 2011, she acted in a short film named Adisio. In 2012 she acted in the prize winning short called The Pink Son, and in the feature film called Road 40 South. She also played Elise in a short film called Giants and Giants in 2012. Also in 2012, Dovrat was the assistant director for a documentary film called The Pain Inside featured by Al Jazeera world.

Despite her abundance of experience in acting and directing both on screen and in the theater, My Forelove is the first short film that Mor Dovrat has directed, produced, and written herself. Her extensive education and experience in both acting and directing in theater and film productions provides her with a unique perspective that allows her to bring realistic life into the characters in her film as well as pair unique action and dialogue with artful and professional cinematic design and production.

In essence, My Forelove, which is titled as a literal translation of the German phrase 'Vorliebe' which means 'preference', is a fresh, modern twist on the classic "boy meets girl" love story. The seven-minute short film is set in Berlin, Germany and represents the post-queer generation's notion on love. The story revolves around the two main characters meeting for sex without knowing anything about each other or the life of the other person. It is a debut film not only for Mor Dovrat as a writer and director, but also for the cast. The plot and script of My Forelove is unique not only as an original take on a traditional love story but also because it combines facts from the real lives of the cast and director and blends them with fictional elements. While neither Mor Dovrat nor the cast of the short film has revealed which elements of the film are based in fiction and which are based in fact, the unique patchwork mix of fiction and reality that the film encompasses adds to its intriguing nature.

My Forelove's debut release on May 16th at the Cannes Film Festival offers a rare opportunity for the public to glimpse a raw, fresh short film with a cast and crew that includes a wide variety of brand-new individuals whose talent has never before been showcased.

My Forelove Trailer: https://vimeo.com/161777011

About Short Film Corner
Organized by the Cannes Film Festival, the Short Film Corner is the essential meeting place for independent filmmakers. Since 2004, short film producers and directors have chosen the Short Film Corner as the place to present their films, make meetings reality and take decisive steps for their future careers.

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Roots is a twenty-minute short documentary film written and directed by Hasti Saadi. It will be screened at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, which begins on May 11th and lasts until May 22nd, in the Short Film Corner of the festival.

Los Angeles, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 05/20/2016 -- Hasti Saadi is a thirty-five year old Iranian photographer, director, and screenwriter. She was born in and grew up in the city of Shiraz in Iran, but she moved to Toronto, Canada, with her family at the age of seventeen. In Canada, Saadi was able to pursue her passions of image arts and design by studying photography at George Brown College and filmmaking at Ryerson University. However, after receiving an initial education in photography and filmmaking, Saadi chose to move back to Iran when she was twenty five years old. She moved to the city of Tehran, Iran, where she continued to follow her dreams of becoming a filmmaker. In Iran, Saadi studied filmmaking further by taking scriptwriting courses under the mentorship of Taghvaee, a renowned Iranian filmmaker whose work is well known around the world. Saadi also participated in a filmmaking workshop that was instructed by Iranian filmmaker and photographer Abbas Kiarostami, who has also garnered international praise for his work. During her time participating in the workshop, which lasted for one year, Saadi wrote and created two documentaries.

Therefore, Roots is not her first documentary film, and it is not her first short film either. In 2012, Saadi wrote and directed a short film called "The Luminance", which was also offered a position at the Festival de Cannes in the Short Film Corner of the festival. Due to her extensive filmmaking education and her emotional investment in the content she creates, Saadi brings both passion and talent to her work. She does not write films simply to earn money or gain success in the world of cinema. Saadi writes and directs in order to provide herself with a powerful outlet for expressing her innermost feelings and emotions in a positive and creative way. Her true passion for her work as well as her undeniable filmmaking skills create a perfect blend of intense emotion, profound spirit, and excellent craftsmanship that shine within her films. Saadi dreams of sharing her vision with the world through her scripts, films, and short stories.

Saadi was inspired to create Roots by the immigrant crises occurring around the world. She recognizes that thousands of people are forced to uproot themselves from their homes, their friends, their families, their homeland, and their communities in order to find a safe place to live and work. Sometimes, that safe place that will provide them with physical or financial security is halfway around the world. Furthermore, after they make it to the regions they must go to in order to feel as though themselves and their loved ones can be safe, many immigrants are often not received well by the citizens or the government of the country in which they arrive and are forced to struggle to live a life of reasonable quality in a foreign land. Saadi is passionate about the injustice of the struggles immigrants face around the world. She dreams of a world where everyone on the earth is able to remain in the homes they love and are never forced to move across the world due to war, economic crisis, harsh political regime, or any other reason. Through her film Roots, Saadi hopes to share her dream with those who watch the documentary.

About Roots
Roots is a true and authentic short documentary film; the film includes real people and events that actually happened. The film delves into the struggles of immigrants, specifically the hardships Afghans face after immigrating to Iran in hopes of finding a better and safer place to live. Roots follows a conversation between two boys: one is an Afghan boy who works in a garden and the other is an Iranian boy who visits the garden to purchase decorative plants.

Throughout their conversation, the two young boys discuss love, God, and their dreams, quickly revealing the similarities in their personalities despite their opposite life situations. Roots perfectly captures the struggle Afghan immigrants face as they are viewed as "just laborers" through the sweet innocence of a blossoming friendship between two young boys who live in parallel worlds but whose spirits and emotions are still in tune.

Attendees of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival should attend the unveiling of Hasti Saadi's newest documentary masterpiece Roots in order to gain awareness and perspective on the struggles of immigrants around the world.

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