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Tribute to the short films of a filmmaker " Bijan Mir Bagheri": 

 


Bijan Mirbagheri, born 1968
Art diploma: sculpture, and photography bachelor's degree from The Art University
Date of activity: 1985, as a painting instructor in the Center of Artistic Creativity (related to the Children and Adolescents Intellectual Development Center - CAIDC)Animator in “Noghli and the Snow Flecks”, and assistant puppet-maker in “The Playmate” directed by Mohammad-Reza Aabedi.

A-Animations:
The Sun Will Shine (35 mm, 1988), Flower (16 mm, 1997 IYCS), Man and Shadow (16 mm, 1997, IYCS), The Blue Boy (series) (1999, Video, IYCS),
Mahsa (35 mm, 2002, CAIDC, 8 min.); winner as best animation in The Children Film Festival, Iranian Cinema Section (Isfahan, 2003); and chosen as best short film in The Children Film Festival, International Section (Isfahan, 2003).

B-Short Films:
- Two Sisters (35 mm, 1999, IYCS), awards as follows:
Best short film as nominated by the Iranian Film Producers, 2000
Best screenplay and direction in the Sacred Defense Festival, 2001
Unica Silver Medal, Netherlands, 2000
Golden Medal Award, in Abnezi Film Festival, Austria, 2000
The Great Award for the best fiction in Bilbao Film Festival, Spain, 2000
The Great Award in Lichtenstein Short Film Festival, 2000

- The Bird (video, 2000)
- The Grandpas Don’t Know Modern Poetry (video, 2000)
- Unwritten Letter (35 mm, 2001, CAIDC, 21 min.)
Golden Medal Award, Houston Film Festival, 2002
Participation in Junior Section of Cannes Film Festival, Cannes, France, 2002

- Silence (35 mm, 2003, IYCS)
Participation in the International Competition Section of Drama Film Festival, Greece, 2004

C-Features:
- We Are All Good People (35 mm, 2004, Aftabnegaran Productions)
- To Have (video, Sima-Film)

D-Documentaries:
- Omidvar Brothers (2001, short film, IYCS)
- Home Cinema (short film, Motion Picture Media Company, 2004)
- Jiroft (not yet finished)

E-Short Film and Feature Screenplays:
- Towards Heavens (feature, 2000)
- The Fifth Person (short, 2001)
- The Sun (short, animation, 2001)
- The Apple (short, animation, 2001)
- Tin Star (short, animation, 2002)
- Made in Japan (feature, 2002)
- Inferno, Limbo, Paradise (feature, 2002)
- To Have (feature, cooperative work, 2004)
- Third Floor (feature, 2004)
- Rainy Night (short, cooperative work, 2004)
- What is God? (short, 2004)
- The Other One (feature, cooperative work, 2005)

Illustrating the children’s book series “Jirak and Joorak” (in four chapters), Markaz Publications, 2000.
TV series “The Bride” (IRIB Channel 2, 2002); teaser for 22d occasion of Fajr Film Festival, and more than 100 ad teasers are among his activities.
 

 
 
 
 Omidvar Brothers

Director: Bijan Mirbagheri
City: Tehran
Time: 27 min.
Category: Documentary
Format: Beta Cam
Script: B. Mirbagheri
Photographer: Keivan Motamedi
Editor: B. Mirbagheri
Producer: Experimental and Documentary Film Development Center
Date: 2002

Synopsis: Adventures of the great world-around journey of Omidvar Brothers in 1950’s.

 
 

 Silence

Director: Bijan Mirbagheri
City: Tehran
Time: 23 min.
Category: Feature
Format: 35 mm
Script: B. Mirbagheri
Photographer: Keivan Motamedi
Editor: B. Mirbagheri
Sound: Kamran Saharkhiz, Ebrahim Bakhshi
Score: Mahmood Mohaghegh
Producer: IYCS
Date: 2003

Synopsis: During air raid in Tehran, when darkness fell on the city, a woman talks with her husband who is recovering from a serious illness.

 

 Two Sisters

Director: Bijan Mirbagheri
City: Tehran
Time: 18 min.
Category: Fiction
Format: 35 mm
Script: B. Mirbagheri
Photographer: Keivan Motamedi
Editor: Seyed-Jamal Seyed-Hatami
Sound: Babak Akhavan, Mahmood Moosavi-Nezhad
Score: Mahmood Mohaghegh
Producer: IYCS
Date: 1999

Synopsis: Story of two sisters living together, whose husbands are war captives. The first war captive return home and the two sisters dream their husbands’ freedom.

 

 The Flower

Director: Bijan Mirbagheri
City: Tehran
Time: 3 min.
Category: Animation
Format: 16 mm
Script: B. Mirbagheri
Score: Arash Khoshdel
Producer: IYCS
Date: 1998

Synopsis: A man picks up a flower. He smells it for a while, but at last throws it away.

 

 Man and Shadow

Director: Bijan Mirbagheri
City: Tehran
Time: 3 min.
Category: Animation
Format: 16 mm
Script: B. Mirbagheri
Score: Arash Khoshdel
Producer: IYCS
Date: 1988

Synopsis: On sunrise a man notices his shadow and tries to catch it; he succeeds only when he dies and falls on the ground.

 

 Mahsa

Director: Bijan Mirbagheri
City: Tehran
Time: 8 min.
Category: Animation
Format: Beta Cam
Script: B. Mirbagheri
Editor: Mahmood Mohaghegh
Sound: M. Mohaghegh
Score: M. mohaghegh
Producer: CAIDC
Date: 2003

Synopsis: The dewdrop is searching among the leaves of the trees of the forest under moonlight.

 

 The Unwritten Letter

Director: Bijan Mirbagheri
City: Tehran
Time: 21 min.
Category: Fiction
Format: Beta Cam
Script: B. Mirbagheri
Photographer: Mehdi Jafari
Editor: Seyed-Jamal Seyed-Hatami
Sound: Ahmad Asgari, Mohammad Haghighi
Score: Mahmood Mohaghegh
Producer: CAIDC
Date: 2004

Synopsis: The paper boat of a pupil travels on a river through villages.