Women Make Waves International Film Festival

Program

Bitter Sea

Fateme AHMADI 2017 UK Fiction color 15min English/Romanian HDCAM
A Romanian single mother has recently escaped from an abusive husband and fled to London to build a better future for her daughter. She's found a job and place to live, but the landlord has a strict "no children allowed" policy. Trapped in an impossible situation, she has to find a way to hide her daughter being in the flat.

Director

Fateme AHMADI

Iranian writer-director based between London and Tehran. She is also the writer and the co-director of Chandra, which premiered at Busan Film Festival and screened in Locarno and many others.

Director's Statement ▾

Fateme AHMADI

2018 Leila's Blues 

2017 Bitter Sea

2015 Chandra 

2014 One Thousand and One Teardrops

Writer & Director: Fateme Ahmadi

Producer: Emma Parsons

Cinematographer: Alex Grigoras

Casting Director: Isabella Odoffin

Production Designer: Zoe Payne

Editor: Abolfazl Talooni

Composer: Filip Sijanec

Sound Designer & Mixer: Rob Szeliga

Fateme AHMADI
bitterseamovie@gmail.com