Pulling The Strings

Name: Pulling The Strings
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Released: 2026-10-17
Duration: 15 min
Cast: Zahra Pashapour, Kiarash Shirvani, Ali Malakan, Danial Bolook Azari, Yasmin Shirani

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Release Date

10/17/2026

Runtime

15 mins

Genres

Drama Fantasy

Overview

‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌ ‌‌‌‌‌While performing the role of Oedipus on stage, a string puppet decides to break the cycle and not simply accept his fate. In doing so, he defies his creator, only to realize that the creator is but a mere creation herself.

Status

Released

Original Language

Persian

Budget

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A puppet's rebellion against his predetermined role spirals into a dizzying meditation on agency and control, where each act of defiance reveals another layer of strings above. It's a formally audacious short that feels like watching the very fabric of theatrical reality unravel.

Mood

DefiantContemplativeUnsettlingMelancholic

Themes

ObsessionPowerArt and creation

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Meditative

Look

Stop-motionFormalistStylized genre

Structure

Nonlinear

Zahra Pashapour

The Creator

Kiarash Shirvani

The Puppet

Ali Malakan

Second Puppet

Danial Bolook Azari

First Puppetarian

Yasmin Shirani

Second Puppetarian

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