Prelude
Murtuma
When a stranger knocks on the door with unpleasant accusations about Helena’s family, she immediately dismisses him. The man leaves, but the seeds of doubt will soon start to sprout.
- Original title: Murtuma
- Country: Finland
- Year: 2023
- Length: 19
- Language: Finsk / Finnish
- Director: Arman Zafari
- Cast: Seidi Haarla, Tommi Korpela, Oscar Steidle, Milo Snellman, Elmer Bäck
Arman Zafari
Afghan Arman Zafari has a bachelor degree in film directing from Finland’s Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture. After living in Iran as an undocumented migrant fearing deportation, films became his safe space, and he began writing film reviews for online film magazines. He arrived in Finland in 2016 as a refugee and started his film studies at Aalto University in 2020. Using different genre elements and their mixture with realism inspires Arman as a filmmaker. Prelude is his graduation film.