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 Abandoned Wheels

Title: Abandoned Wheels
Director: Majidreza Mostafavi
City: Isfahan
Time: 22 min
Category: Documentary
Format: DV Cam
Script: M.R. Mostafavi
Photographer: M.R. Mostafavi
Editor: M.R. Mostafavi
Sound: M.R. Mostafavi
Score: Hooman Homami
Producer: Aban Film Company
Date: 2004

Synopsis: Oil-works were once the home of labor, love, and eagerness for life…

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 Bam, the Eastern Gateway of Iran


Title: Bam, the Eastern Gateway of Iran
Director: Hormoz Emami-Khalkhali
City: Tehran
Time: 39 min
Category: Documentary
Format: DV Cam
Photographer: Iraj Moshiri, Javid Shakibaii
Editor: H. Emami-Khalkhali
Score: Farid Shabkhiz
Producer: H. Emami-Khalkhali
Date: 2004

Synopsis: Looking for the causes of vulnerability of the Arg-e-Bam to earthquake, and a study about why the tradition of mud brick architecture has been abandoned.

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 Bell of the Marsh


Title: Bell of the Marsh
Director: Farhad Mokhtari
City: Tehran
Time: 12 min
Category: Documentary
Format: DV Cam
Script: F. Mokhtari
Photographer: Mojtaba Amiri
Editor: F. Mokhtari
Sound: Majid Boloori
Producer: Hossein Saberi
Date: 2005

Synopsis: A lonely old woman lives in a house built on top of a marshy land, and is waiting for a bell ringing.

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 Broken/Continually

Title: Broken/Continually
Director: Mahmood Yarmohammadloo
City: Tehran
Time: 25 min
Category: Documentary
Format: DV Cam
Script: M. Yarmohammadloo
Photographer: Ali Loghmani, Behrooz Samad-Motlagh
Editor: M. Yarmohammadloo
Sound: Reza Narimizadeh
Score: Selection
Producer: EDFDC, IYCS
Date: 2005

Synopsis: Life and artistic development of Master Yadollah Kaboli Khorasani.

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 The Bubble

Title: The Bubble
Director: Mojtaba Ghassemi
City: Shahr-e-Rey
Time: 35 min
Category: Documentary
Format: DV Cam
Script: M. Ghassemi
Photographer: Mehdi Saber, Ahmad Sajjadi-Sadr, M. Ghassemi
Editor: Reza Mohammadghassemi
Sound: Behzad Tavakkoli, Milad Delshad
Score: M. Delshad
Producer: M. Ghassemi
Date: 2004

Synopsis: On the occasion of Tehran Park-e-Shahr tragic accident of 2002 when some girl students were drowned, this film deals with the subjects of responsibility and engagement.

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 Cloudy Memories – Part 2: Somewhere Beyond the Mountains

Title: Cloudy Memories – Part 2: Somewhere Beyond the Mountains
Director: Vahid Chavoosh
City: Tehran
Time: 33 min 30 sec
Category: Documentary
Format: DV
Photographer: V. Chavoosh
Editor: V. Chavoosh
Sound: Mohammad Vafaii
Score: Fereshteh Alborzi
Producer: V. Chavoosh, IRIB (Channel 3)
Date: 2005

Synopsis: Story of the life of brave people who are not too far from us, but live a far more modest life.

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 Darioosh and Banoo

Title: Darioosh and Banoo
Director: Farshad Fadaiian
City: Tehran
Time: 24 min
Category: Documentary
Format: DV Cam
Script: F. Fadaiian
Photographer: F. Fadaiian
Editor: F. Fadaiian
Score: F. Fadaiian
Producer: F. Fadaiian
Date: 2005

Synopsis: Darioosh and Banoo, two of about 30,000 Zoroastrian people remaining in Iran live in a large house with small expectations.

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 Daieh-Shekar

Title: Daieh-Shekar
Director: Minoo Kiani
City: Tehran
Time: 30 min 30 sec
Category: Documentary
Format: DV Cam
Photographer: Morteza Poorsamadi
Editor: Farshad Fadaiian
Sound: Farid Piraiesh
Producer: EDFDC, M. Kiani
Date: 2004

Synopsis: Daieh-Shekar, a 92 year old woman, living in a mountainous area of Kermanshah, is a spiritual support for those who come to her.

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 Dye the Dictator with Henna

Title: Dye the Dictator with Henna
Director: Hiva Aminezhad
City: Baneh
Time: 14 min
Category: Documentary
Format: DV
Script: H. Aminezhad
Photographer: Shirkoo Bootan, H. Aminezhad
Editor: Mehdi Assadi
Sound: Hossein Zarin
Score: Javan Hajoo
Producer: H. Aminezhad
Date: 2004

Synopsis: When Saddam was arrested, a refugee Kurd woman did a symbolic act that was reflected widely in world media.

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 Especial Ceremony

Title: Especial Ceremony
Director: Behfar Karimi
City: Haft-Tappeh
Time: 5 min
Category: Documentary
Format: Mini DV
Sketch: B. Karimi
Photographer: B. Karimi
Editor: B. Karimi
Sound: B. Karimi
Score: B. Karimi
Producer: Vaheh Film Workshop (B. Karimi)
Date: 2004

Synopsis: The collective activity of the ants is a magnificent phenomenon.

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 The Eye of the Thousand Fountains

Title: The Eye of the Thousand Fountains
Director: Homaioon Emami
City: Tehran
Time: 35 min
Category: Documentary
Format: Beta Cam
Script: H. Emami
Photographer: Yoosef Keramati, Yoosef Bechari
Editor: Mitra Karagah
Sound: Tirdad Rezaii, Taraneh Mohajer
Score: Hossein Mahdavi
Producer: Esmat Shakeri, IRIB (Channel 1, Science Group)
Date: 2003-4

Synopsis: An episode of a series, with the subject of Iranian learned men. This part: Engineer Aligholi Baiani.

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 A Familiar Ruin

Title: A Familiar Ruin
Director: Mehdi Bashiri
City: Semnan
Time: 20 min
Category: Documentary
Format: Mini DV
Script: M. Bashiri
Photographer: Mohammadmehdi Rezaiifard, Rahmatollah Ghaemi
Editor: M. Bashiri
Sound: M.M. Rezaiifard
Score: M. Bashiri
Producer: IYCS (Semnan Branch)
Date: 2004

Synopsis: History of the cloth weaving mill of Semnan, its effect on and services to the life of the people, and its present condition.

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 Girls of Combat

Title: Girls of Combat
Director: Fatima Shahbaz-Tahmasbi
City: Tehran
Time: 15 min
Category: Documentary
Format: DV Cam
Script: F. Shahbaz-Tahmasbi
Photographer: Davood Abbasi, Javad Shahbaz-Tahmasbi
Editor: Hamid Salimian
Sound: D. Abbasi, H. Salimian
Score: H. Salimian
Producer: F. Shahbaz-Tahmasbi
Date: 2004-5

Synopsis: Camp life of adolescent Tekvando sportswomen who go to Lebanon, but are defeated due to prejudiced refereeing.

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 Hilias Case

Title: Hilias Case
Director: Mohammadali Farsi
City: Tehran
Time: 30 min
Category: Documentary
Format: Beta Cam
Script: M.A. Farsi
Photographer: Siroos Abdoli
Editor: M.A. Farsi
Sound: Kazem Ghassemi
Score: Selection
Producer: Mohammadreza Masoomzadegan, IRIB (Channel 1)
Date: 2003-4

Synopsis: Ali Dizani, the dismissed police chief officer of Kensington in London, is charged with spying, bribing, and… Who is he?

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 I am Darioosh

Title: I am Darioosh
Director: Vahid Bagherzadeh
City: Tehran
Time: 34 min 11 sec
Category: Documentary
Format: DV Cam
Script: Orod Attarpoor
Photographer: Abbas Saheb
Editor: V. Bagherzadeh
Sound: V. Bagherzadeh
Score: V. Bagherzadeh
Producer: O. Attarpoor, IRIB (Channel 4, documentary Group)
Date: 2004

Synopsis: Story of the Darioosh statue that was found in 1972 and transferred to Iranian National Museum.

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 I am a Leader

Title: I am a Leader
Director: Mohsen Khanjahani
City: Tehran
Time: 30 min
Category: Documentary
Format: DV Cam
Photographer: Abbas Fathi-Ashkani, Reza Taherazar
Editor: Farhang Adamiat
Producer: IYCS
Date: 2005

Synopsis: Hossein Asgari, known as Hossein Beethoven, earns living by blowing bugle.

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 Iranian Pond

Title: Iranian Pond
Director: Parissa Eshghi
City: Tehran
Time: 35 min 30 sec
Category: Documentary
Format: DV
Script: P. Eshghi
Photographer: Ezzat Azizi
Editor: Reza Beheshti, P. Eshghi
Sound: Vahid Doozandeh
Score: Meysam Kazzazy
Producer: R. Beheshti, IRIB (Channel 2)
Date: 2004

Synopsis: Structural and symbolic meaning of the pond in Iranian architecture, as viewed by a woman composer.

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 Internet Mausoleum

Title: Internet Mausoleum
Director: Reza Haeri
City: Tehran
Time: 30 min
Category: Documentary
Format: DV
Script: R. Haeri
Photographer: Hadi Pooyan
Editor: Faramarz Hootham
Score: Sohrab Mohebbi
Producer: Article Z, EDFDC
Date: 2003

Synopsis: Internet usage in Iran.

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 Inana

Title: Inana
Director: Soodabeh Mojaveri
City: Tehran
Time: 28 min
Category: Documentary
Format: DV Cam
Script: S. Mojaveri
Photographer: Morteza Poorsamadi
Editor: S. Mojaveri
Sound: Mohammadreza Delpak
Score: M.R. Delpak
Producer: EDFDC
Date: 2005

Synopsis: A myth about love, in 3 episodes, this film shows assembly of women in Birjand in Wednesdays, looking for the origins of an eternal truth.

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 Jackal Day


Title: Jackal Day
Director: Mohsen Ostadali-Makhmalbaf
City: Tehran
Time: 25 min
Category: Documentary
Format: DV Cam
Script: M. Ostadali-Makhmalbaf
Photographer: Siamak Sariolghalam
Editor: Mohammad Jafari
Sound: Reza Sani, Reza Erfani
Score: Alireza Alavian
Producer: A. Alavian, Tolooa’ Film
Date: 2005

Synopsis: Mohammad Bijeh, killer of 21 children, is punished to death in Pakdasht.

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 A Line in a Memory

Title: A Line in a Memory
Director: Shahran Bagheri
City: Isfahan
Time: 9 min
Category: Documentary
Format: DV
Script: Sh. Bagheri
Photographer: Mehran Rasoolzadeh
Editor: Sh. Bagheri
Sound: Sh. Bagheri
Score: Sh. Bagheri
Producer: Isfahan Steel Mill Cinema and Documentary Center
Date: 2004

Synopsis: Relation between man and industry, and Saba Complex production line.

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 The Lost Reels

Title: The Lost Reels
Director: Merdad Zahedian
City: Tehran
Time: 32 min
Category: Documentary
Format: DV Cam
Photographer: Abbas Saheb
Editor: Vahid Bagherzadeh
Sound: V. Bagherzadeh
Score: M. Zahedian, V. Bagherzadeh
Producer: Orod Atarpoor, IRIB (Channel 4, Documentary Group)
Date: 2004

Synopsis: Film reels found in Golestan Palace in 1981 that were perhaps the first pictures of the Iranian cinema.

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 More Homeless than the Wind

Title: More Homeless than the Wind
Director: Javad Tavana, Seifollah Yazdani
City: Ghom
Time: 20 min
Category: Documentary
Format: mini DV
Photographer: Mojtaba Haghighipoor
Editor: Mahmoodreza Rahmatifard
Producer: J. Tavana
Date: 2004

Synopsis: An Iranian social worker living in Sweden comes to help after Bam quake.

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 The Nakhl of the tenth day

Title: The Nakhl of the tenth day
Director: Babak Behdad
City: Tehran
Time: 26 min
Category: Documentary
Format:
Script: -
Photographer: Farahnaz Sharifi,B.Behdad
Editor: B.Behdad
Sound: Maryam Haghpanah
Score: Aram Mortazavi
Producer: B.Behdad
Date: 2004

Synopsis: Rituals of Nakhl Bardari in Iranian cities around kavir.

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 Orsi

Title: Orsi
Director: Samad Vatankhah
City: Sanandaj
Time: 24 min
Category: Documentary
Format: DV Cam
Script: -
Photographer: Aboobakr Hassanzadeh
Editor: Farhad Mokhtari
Sound: F. Mokhtari
Score: F. Mokhtari
Producer: S. Vatankhah
Date: 2004-5

Synopsis: History of Orsi making in Iran, especially in Sanandaj.

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 Oil Discoverers

Title: Oil Discoverers
Director: Hormoz Emami
City: Tehran
Time: 45 min
Category: Documentary
Format: DV Cam
Script: -
Photographer: Iraj Mostashiri, Shahram Moa’bbed
Editor: Padideh Badia’
Sound: -
Score: Farid Shabkhiz
Producer: Dr. Akbar Nea’matollahi, Oil Ministry Public Relations Cultural Center
Date: 2003

Synopsis: Oil industry history, especially with regard to Middle Eastern civilizations.

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 Perav, a Stair down to Darkness

Title: Perav, a Stair down to Darkness
Director: Reza Nezamdoost
City: Mashad
Time: 37 min
Category: Documentary
Format: Beta Cam
Script: -
Photographer: R. Nezamdoost
Editor: Mahmood Taheri
Sound: M. Taheri
Score: M. Taheri
Producer: R. Nezamdoost
Date: 2004

Synopsis: Rescue operations of three Iranian spelunkers who have been lost in one of the deepest caves of the world in the north of Kermanshah.

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 The Power of Belief

Title: The Power of Belief
Director: Farhad Noori-Moghaddam
City: Kermanshah
Time: 10 min
Category: Documentary
Format: Beta Cam
Script: -
Photographer: Sohrab Armin
Editor: Hossein Heidari
Sound: Mehrdad Bonakdari
Score: F. Noori-Moghaddam
Producer: F. Noori-Moghaddam, IRIB (Kermanshah Center)
Date: 2005

Synopsis: Sportive life of Iman Shafii, the young world champion of karate, and his good moral characteristics.

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 Retaliation of the Stone

Title: Retaliation of the Stone
Director: Mahmood Rahmani
City: Izeh
Time: 15 min
Category: Documentary
Format: DV
Script: M. Rahmani
Photographer: M. Rahmani
Editor: Farid Daghagheleh
Sound: M. Rahmani
Score: Hooshang Chehartangi
Producer: Engineer Soltanmorad Rahmani
Date: 2004-5

Synopsis: Life of a Bakhtiari old man working in a quarry. He had since ling abandoned tribal life for working in oil company, but now…

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 Rusty People

Title: Rusty People
Director: Majed Neissi
City: Tehran
Time: 18 min 4 sec
Category: Documentary
Format: DV Cam
Script: -
Photographer: M. Neissi
Editor: Khaled Neissi
Sound: -
Score: -
Producer: Alalam Network Production Department, Mehdi Homayoonfar

Synopsis: Story of Maman-Ali, an Iraqi woman who earns living of a family.

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 SARA KHATOON

Title: SARA KHATOON
Director: Mahmoud Kiani Flaverjani
City: Tehran
Time: 26 min
Category: Documentary
Format: DV Cam
Script: Mahmoud kiani flaverjani
Photographer: Alireza Javani
Editor: M.Moghadam
Sound: Mojtaba Mir Louhi
Score: Selected
Producer: Mahmoud Kiani Flaverjani,IYCS
Date: 2005

Synopsis: This documentary films is about"Sara Khatoon" temple in Esfahan, which has been visited by some Muslims and Jews who have vows.

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 The Search

Title: The Search
Director: Mohammad Soofi
City: Tehran
Time: 9 min
Category: Documentary
Format: DV Cam
Script: -
Photographer: M. Soofi
Editor: Hamid Rahiman
Sound: H. Rahiman
Score: -
Producer: M. Soofi
Date: 2003

Synopsis: 72 hours after Bam quake, the unusual reaction of a dog warns the Iranian and US rescuers that there is somebody alive under the wreckage.

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 The soldiers of CAESAR

Title: The soldiers of CAESAR
Director: Mansour Gholami
City: Khozestan
Time: 46 min
Category: Documentary
Format: DV
Script: Mansour Gholami
Photographer: Mazid Madadian,Vahid Golestan
Editor: Vahid Golestan
Sound: Pejman Nemati
Score: Mansour Gholami
Producer: Mansour Gholami
Date: 2005

Synopsis: The secrets of this land in the inflammation of the grey years have been remained unknown.The miracle of Caesar is believed in his disabilities.

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 The Story of Migration

Title: The Story of Migration
Director: Ali Akbari
City: Ghom
Time: 22 min
Category: Documentary
Format: Mini DV
Script: A. Akbari
Photographer: Mohammad Morravejzadeh
Editor: A. Akbari
Sound: Mohammadali Akbari
Score: M.A. Akbari
Producer: Hadi Film
Date: 2003

Synopsis: Life of a group of Afghan immigrant living in a cattle raising region called Damshahr.

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 The Shadows of Silence

Title: The Shadows of Silence
Director: Shahriar Poorseyedian
City: Talesh
Time: 15 min
Category: Documentary
Format: DV
Script: Sh. Poorseyedian
Photographer: Sh. Poorseyedian
Editor: Sh. Poorseyedian
Sound: Mohammadali Babaii
Score: Shohreh. Poorseyedian
Producer: Sh. Poorseyedian
Date: 2004

Synopsis: Two old women are living peacefully together for 40 years.

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 Soprano

Title: Soprano
Director: Ali Kheirkhah
City: Tabriz
Time: 26 min
Category: Documentary
Format: DV
Script: A. Kheirkhah
Photographer: Aliakbar Ghafoorian
Editor: Farhood Bahri-Karami
Sound: Hadi Amini
Score: A. Kheirkhah
Producer: Seyed-Morteza Gheibi, Art Film
Date: 2004

Synopsis: A different approach to the life of a girl student.

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 Sheikh of the Wind

Title: Sheikh of the Wind
Director: Fariba Rostami-Jalilian
City: Tehran
Time: 30 min
Category: Documentary
Format: DV
Script: F. Rostami-Jalilian (supervised by Mohammadreza Aslani)
Photographer: Amin Aslani
Editor: A. Aslani
Sound: Behrooz Shahamat
Score: A. Aslani
Producer: Mona Rostami, Mohammad Reshtehgoli
Date: 2004

Synopsis: Zaar rituals in south of Iran, and some knowledge about Baba-Zaar.

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Song of the Soil

Title: Song of the Soil
Director: Panahbarkhoda Rezaii
City: Tehran
Time: 12 min
Category: Documentary
Format: Beta Cam
Producer: IYCS, Roosta-Shaghaiegh Institute
Date: 2004

Synopsis: Love of a man for the soil and field.

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 Tanavoli, as related by Tanavoli

Title: Tanavoli, as related by Tanavoli
Director: Leila Naghdi-Pari
City: Tehran
Time: 38 min
Category: Documentary
Format: DV Cam
Script: L. Naghdi-Pari
Photographer: Amin Jafari, Majid Gorjian
Editor: L. Naghdi-Pari
Sound: Javad Emami
Score: Selection, L. Naghdi-Pari
Producer: Majid Barzegar
Date: 2005

Synopsis: About the works and style of Parviz Tanavoli, the father of modern Iranian sculpture.

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Tomorrow of Yesterday

Title: Tomorrow of Yesterday
Director: Amin Ghadami, Ali Razzaghi
City: Tehran
Time: 41 min
Category: Documentary
Format:
Script: A. Razzaghi
Photographer: A. Ghadami
Editor: A. Ghadami
Sound: Ahmad Salehi
Score: A. Ghadami
Producer: Vahid Chavoosh
Date: 2004

Synopsis: At the end of Iran-Iraq War, some refugees could not return their home and are still struggling with the difficulties of immigration.

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 Union

Title: Union
Director: Saiid Khodaii
City: Sabzevar
Time: 9 min
Category: Documentary
Photographer: Elham Khazama, Shahraiin, Sangsefidi
Editor: S. Khodaii
Sound: Khosravani, S. Khodaii
Score: S. Khodaii
Producer: Sabzevar Kish Tasvir Filming Company
Date: 2004

Synopsis: Haj-Yoosef-Yoossefian, the famous Ta’ziehkhan (lamentation play narrator) from a Sabzevar village, died and joined God in 2003 while playing Ta’zieh.

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 The White Tents (Mohammad Bahman-Beigi)

Title: The White Tents (Mohammad Bahman-Beigi)
Director: Kamran Heidari
City: Shiraz
Time: 39 min
Category: Documentary
Format: DV Cam
Script: K. Heidari
Photographer: Babak Safshekan
Editor: K. Heidari
Sound: B. Safshekan
Score: Amin Aghaii
Producer: Dr. Alireza Moniri
Date: 2003-4

Synopsis: The life of Mohammad Bahman-Beigi, the founder of Ashaieri (Iranian tribes) education.

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 Write down: Water, Rain, Sea

Title: Write down: Water, Rain, Sea
Director: Niloofar Saiidi
City: tehran
Time: 20 min
Category: Documentary
Format: DV Cam
Photographer: Ahmadali Sajjadi-Sadr
Editor: Mohammadmoiin Karimeddini
Sound: Narjes Adabkhah, Hossein Ghoorchian
Producer: N. Saiidi
Date: 2004

Synopsis: The bio-ecology of the people living in Sistan, and their struggle with harsh environmental conditions, like drought and sand storm.

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 Windmills

Title: Windmills

Director: Mehrdad Oskooii
City: Tehran
Time: 26 min
Category: Documentary
Format: DV Cam
Script: M. Oskooii
Photographer: Reza Darianoosh
Editor: Bahman Kiarostami
Sound: Farshid Faraji
Score: Selection
Producer: M. Oskooii, EDFDC
Date: 2005

Synopsis: Children surviving the 1990 Roodbar quake are now full grown youth who live their new lives with the memory of their lost beloved ones.

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 Whirlpool

Title: Whirlpool
Director: Pirooz Kalantari
City: Tehran
Time: 28 min
Category: Documentary
Format: DV Cam
Script: P. Kalantari
Photographer: Reza Teimoori
Editor: P. Kalantari, Hassan Babaii
Sound: Farshid Faraji
Score: Selection: P. Kalantari
Producer: Orod Attarpoor, IRIB (Channel 4, Documentary Group)
Date: 2004

Synopsis: the lake in the archeological complex of Takht-e-Soleiman, and its mysterious history as told by local people.

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 9th and 10th of Moharram

Title: 9th and 10th of Moharram
Director: Behzad Dorani
City: Tehran
Time: 18 min
Category: Documentary
Format: DV Cam
Script: B. Dorani
Photographer: B. Dorani
Editor: Ali Baradaran-Seyed
Producer: B. Dorani
Date: 2005

Synopsis: Religious ceremony of the 9th and 10th of Moharram in Khorramabad.

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