Photo by Courtesy of Alireza Kazemipour / PNG “This issue occupied my mind as I remembered the Afghan man I’d met, and I decided to merge the two stories together and wrote the script.”įilmmaker Alireza Kazemipour’s short film The Gold Teeth is one of six films set to screen at this year’s Crazy8s Gala on May 7 in Vancouver. “Many intellectuals, filmmakers, artists, sexual minorities were left unsupported and were forced to leave their country,” said Vancouver resident Kazemipour, who met an Afghan refugee on a ferry from Greece to Italy who had put his life savings into his mouth. The family wants to send money back to Afghanistan to help the man’s son, who is gay and targeted by the Taliban, flee the country. The dead man’s refugee daughter Sahra ( Premiss Sehat) has convinced an Iranian dentist ( Shayan Bayat) to mine the man’s mouth. He did this not out of vanity but out of fear his money would be taken from him by the Taliban or others. The teeth are being removed because the man has literally put his money where his mouth is and filled 11 teeth with gold. In Alireza Kazemipour’s short film The Gold Teeth a dentist struggles to pull out the teeth of a dead Afghan man. Where: The Centre for Performing Arts, Vancouver This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Vancouver Sun Run: Sign up & event info.