Pokerface
One day, a young Iranian woman’s Swedish husband dies while sitting on the toilet. The trouble is, she doesn’t speak Swedish, and worse yet – the shame of not being able to send money to her family back in Iran! She must avoid losing face at all costs and internet poker seems to be just the way out.
- Sweden
- 2008, 15 min
- Director: Denize Karabuda
- Director of photography: Ragna Jorming
- Editor: Sofia Lindgren
- Screenplay: Denize Karabuda
- Music: Robyn & Kleerup
- Cast: Zinat Pirzadeh, Allan Svensson
- Contacts: Swedish Film Institute
- Producer: Renée Axö Bergqvist
- Production: Strix Television
Denize Karabuda
Denize Karabuda (1962, Sweden) studied at the National Academy of Acting in Stockholm. Her first feature screenplay Se upp för dårarna (Mind the Gap, 2007) was a box-office hit in Sweden. Pokerface is her directing debut. She is now working on a feature film.