The Turtle (2023) is a film on which Fatemeh Fereydoun worked as director, writer & producer. 2023 · 14 min · Iran · Persian · Short. "The turtle" is a 15-minute short film that explores the theme of migration within the framework of a love story. Saba is a boy in the middle of his young years. Tonight, he is going to immigrate from Iran to live with his mother after more than twenty years of being far away in another country. This is in the middle of the protests in Tehran. His father tries to make him leave sooner because the situation is not stable and safe. But there is a relationship between the boy and the girl. His father makes an effort to leave the country and forget about the girl. However, the couple think differently, which makes everything complicated.

Credits: Writer, Producer and Director — Fatemeh Fereydoun; Actors — Hamid Pour-Azari, Pavan Afsar, Nahal Dashti, Omid Shahmoradi, Navid Layeghi Moghaddam; Director of Photography — Saeed Barati; Sound Recorder — Hadi Manavipour; Assistant Voice Recorder — Ahmad Tafreshi; Sound mixing and Sound editting — Amin Sharifi; Edited by — Shahin Sepehri; Assistant Director and Programmer — Amin Sameti; Music — Ehsan Padeganeh; Color Grading — Farbod Jalali; Costume Designer — Sara Mojdeh; Stage designer — Alipouya Ghasemi; Makeup designer — Safoura Saffari; Cinematography: — Sajjad Barati, Hossein Nasuri; Script Supervisor — Roxana Talebi; Stage Assistant — Reza Mohammadi.

Awards and selections: 11th Goa Short Film Festival, India — Official Selection — 2024; 19th Festival du film de Pune, India — Official Selection — 2024.