Tehran International Shortfilm Festival ( IYCS)

National Competition:

National Competition( Documentary )

TITLE: Garbi
DIRECTOR: Mehrdad Rastgoo
COUNTRY/CITY: Iran/Yasooj
TIME: 12'
FORMAT: MiniDV
SCRIPT WRITER: Mehrdad Rastgoo
PHOTOGRAPHER: Mehrdad Rastgoo
EDITOR: Ghodratollah Soleimanifar
SOUND: --
MUSIC: --
PRODUCER: IYCS (Kohkiouyeh va Boyer Ahmad)
DATE OF PRO: 2006-2007
SYNOPSIS: According to a superstitious belief in Boyer Ahmad if early in the morning you see some one with his left eye smaller than the other, it will bring you bad luck.

TITLE: Turquoise
DIRECTOR: Hamid Naseri Moghadam
COUNTRY/CITY: Iran/Tehran
TIME :14'
FORMAT: DVcam
SCRIPT WRITER: Hamid Naseri Moghadam
PHOTOGRAPHER : Hamid Nabizadeh
EDITOR: Hamid Naseri Moghadam
SOUND: Peiman Tavasoli
MUSIC: Hamid Naseri Moghadam
PRODUCER: IYCS
DATE OF PRO: 2007
SYNOPSIS: About mining, faceting and using Turquoise in Neishaboor.

TITLE: Tehran, of what magnitude on the Richter scale?
DIRECTOR: Pirouz Kalantari
COUNTRY/CITY: Iran/ Tehran
TIME: 28'
FORMAT: DVcam
SCRIPT WRITER: Pirouz Kalantari
PHOTOGRAPHER: Reza Teimouri
EDITOR: Vahid Bagherzadeh
SOUND: Rouhollah Jafarbeiglou
MUSIC: Pirouz Kalantari
PRODUCER: IRIB4, Orod Atapour
DATE OF PRO: 2006
SYNOPSIS: Sooner or later, there will be a disastrous earthquake in Tehran. How serious this prediction is for Tehran's inhabitants?

TITLE: The schools
DIRECTOR: Naser Naserpour
COUNTRY/CITY: Iran/Khoramabad
TIME :16'
FORMAT: DVcam
SCRIPT WRITER: Naser Naserpour
PHOTOGRAPHER : Naser Naserpour
EDITOR: Naser Naserpour
SOUND: Nemat Hafezi
MUSIC: Parvin Marahemi
PRODUCER: Naser Naserpour
DATE OF PRO: 2006-2007
SYNOPSIS: A look at the schools' conditions in the remote villages.

TITLE: Tomorrow
DIRECTOR: Gholam Hossein Mirjalili
COUNTRY/CITY: Iran/ Tehran
TIME: 3'
FORMAT: DV
SCRIPT WRITER: Gholam Hossein Mirjalili
PHOTOGRAPHER: Seyed Mas'ood Astandari
EDITOR: Meisam Baloochi
SOUND: Meisam Baloochi
MUSIC: Meisam Baloochi
PRODUCER: IYCS
DATE OF PRO: 2006
SYNOPSIS: A handicapped young man talks about his problems and loneliness.

TITLE: The white gold
DIRECTOR: Bijan Zamanpira
COUNTRY/CITY: Iran/Sanandaj
TIME :17'
FORMAT: MiniDV
SCRIPT WRITER: Bijan Zamanpira
PHOTOGRAPHER : Abedin Aliveisi, Salem Salavati
EDITOR: Bijan Zamanpira
SOUND: Hadi Sa'edmohkam
MUSIC: --

PRODUCER: Bijan Zamanpira
DATE OF PRO: 2007
SYNOPSIS: During their yearly migration, people of Uraman in Kurdistan melt snow to get water.

TITLE: Yaser's children
DIRECTOR: Khatereh Hanachi
COUNTRY/CITY: Iran/ Tehran
TIME: 24'
FORMAT: MiniDV
SCRIPT WRITER: Khatereh Hanachi
PHOTOGRAPHER: Hamed Namazi
EDITOR: Bahador Fatah Tari
SOUND: --
MUSIC: --
PRODUCER: Khatereh Hanachi
DATE OF PRO: 2006
SYNOPSIS: A story about two street children. One of them wishes to go back home.

TITLE: .
DIRECTOR: Mohsen Moghadam
COUNTRY/CITY: Iran/Shiraz
TIME :17'
FORMAT: DVcam
SCRIPT WRITER: Mohsen Moghadam
PHOTOGRAPHER : Ali Baghayi, Mohsen Moghadam
EDITOR: Alireza Shokouhian
SOUND: Alireza Shokouhian
MUSIC: Mohsen Moghadam
PRODUCER: Fasl e Chaharom Filmmaking Group
DATE OF PRO: 2007
SYNOPSIS: Siyakhan was a young man who died because of his abnormal growth. After his death his body was disinterred and anatomized in University of medical sciences.

TITLE: Football, a place with no referee
DIRECTOR: Mohammad Ramezani
COUNTRY/CITY: Iran/Arak
TIME: 15'
FORMAT: MiniDV
SCRIPT WRITER: Faranak Parandi
PHOTOGRAPHER: Hamid Farokhi, Hamidreza Torabi, Mehdi Ashouri
EDITOR: Reza Sa'eed Abadi
SOUND: Mohammadreza Malakpour
MUSIC: Mohammad Ramezani
PRODUCER: IRIB (Markazi), Mohammad Ramezani
DATE OF PRO: 2006
SYNOPSIS: A documentary about social and cultural problems of football (the sport) and a neighborhood in the outskirts of Arak called "Football".

TITLE: There is a wheat field here.
DIRECTOR: Panahbarkhoda Rezayi
COUNTRY/CITY: Iran/Shazand
TIME :13'
FORMAT: DVcam
SCRIPT WRITER: Panahbarkhoda Rezayi
PHOTOGRAPHER : Mas'ood Soflayi
EDITOR: Ruzbeh Mihankhah
SOUND: Navid Mohaimenian
MUSIC: Panahbarkhoda Rezayi
PRODUCER: Panahbarkhoda Rezayi
DATE OF PRO: 2006
SYNOPSIS: Nature, life and the sounds of wheat fields.

TITLE: The seventh day
DIRECTOR: Arash Ra'eesian
COUNTRY/CITY: Iran/Tehran
TIME: 40'
FORMAT: DVcam
SCRIPT WRITER: Arash Ra'eesian
PHOTOGRAPHER: Reza Azadi
EDITOR: Arash Ra'eesian
SOUND: Mohammad Javad Safari
MUSIC: Navid Afghah
PRODUCER: Arash Ra'eesian
DATE OF PRO: 2007
SYNOPSIS: Six painters create a world of lines and colors in front of a live audience during six days. As a metaphor of seven days of creation, the artists and the audience converse with each other in the seventh day.

TITLE: The day of incident
DIRECTOR: Mohammad Ali Farsi
COUNTRY/CITY: Iran/ Tehran
TIME :30'28''
FORMAT: DVcam
SCRIPT WRITER: Mohammad Ali Farsi
PHOTOGRAPHER : Morteza Payeh Shenas, Mohammad Mir Rajabi
EDITOR: Mohammad Ali Farsi
SOUND: Ghasem Kazemi
MUSIC: Anahita Farsi
PRODUCER: The Foundation for the Preservation and Publication of Sacred Defense Works and Values, Mohammad Ali Farsi
DATE OF PRO: 2006-2007
SYNOPSIS: The massacre of the inhabitants of Abou Hamizeh( a village in Sousangerd) by Iraqi forces.

TITLE: The raid
DIRECTOR: Mohammad Ali Farsi
COUNTRY/CITY: Iran/ Tehran
TIME: 31'
FORMAT: DVcam
SCRIPT WRITER: Mohammad Ali Farsi
PHOTOGRAPHER: Mohammad Mir Rajabi
EDITOR: Mohammad Ali Farsi
SOUND: Ghasem Kazemi
MUSIC: Anahita Farsi
PRODUCER: The Foundation for the Preservation and Publication of Sacred Defense Works and Values, Mohammad Ali Farsi
DATE OF PRO: 2006-2007
SYNOPSIS: In the early days of war, an armored division of Iraqi forces approaches Ahvaz. They intend to occupy Mehrshahr in the morning of the ninth day, but…

TITLE: The moonlight
DIRECTOR: Mohammad Ali Hashem Zehi
COUNTRY/CITY: Iran/Zahedan
TIME :18'55''
FORMAT: MiniDV
SCRIPT WRITER: Mohammad Ali Hashem Zehi
PHOTOGRAPHER : Sadegh Soori
EDITOR: Mohammad Ali Hashem Zehi
SOUND: Taher Rigi Pasand
MUSIC: --
PRODUCER: IYCS (Zahedan), Mohammad Ali Hashem Zehi
DATE OF PRO: 2007
SYNOPSIS: A documentary about the life of the embroidery artisans in Balouchestan.

TITLE: The constitutional movement and the lady
DIRECTOR: Jamshid Khoshdel
COUNTRY/CITY: Iran/ Tehran
TIME: 12'30''
FORMAT: Mini DV
SCRIPT WRITER: Jamshid Khoshdel
PHOTOGRAPHER: Jamshid Khoshdel
EDITOR: Jamshid Khoshdel
SOUND: Jamshid Khoshdel
MUSIC: --
PRODUCER: Jamshid Khoshdel
DATE OF PRO: 2006-2007
SYNOPSIS: A documentary on Iranians' perception of constitutional movement and an interview with a live witness.

TITLE: Goodbye, Oscar
DIRECTOR: Jamshid Mojaddadi
COUNTRY/CITY: Iran/Mashhad
TIME :31'
FORMAT: Mini DV
SCRIPT WRITER: Jamshid Mojaddadi
PHOTOGRAPHER : Mehdi Kalami
EDITOR: Soroush Mohammadzadeh, Jamshid Mojaddadi
SOUND: Hassan Molavi Tagami
MUSIC: Soroush Mohammadzadeh
PRODUCER: IRIB (Khorasan), Jamshid Mojaddadi
DATE OF PRO: 2006
SYNOPSIS: A lion attacks his tamer in a small circus in Mashhad.

TITLE: The manna
DIRECTOR: Mohammad Dastmalchian
COUNTRY/CITY: Iran/Mashhad
TIME: 11'
FORMAT: DV cam
SCRIPT WRITER: Mohammad Dastmalchian
PHOTOGRAPHER: Alireza Haratian
EDITOR: Mohammad Dastmalchian
SOUND: Alireza Haratian
MUSIC: --
PRODUCER: IRIB (Khorasan e Razavi), Mohammad Dastmalchian
DATE OF PRO: 2006
SYNOPSIS: Harvesting the manna (a medicinal herb) in Khorasan e Razavi.

TITLE: The color of earth, the color of heaven
DIRECTOR: Mojtaba Hosseini
COUNTRY/CITY: Iran/ Tehran
TIME : 23'
FORMAT: Betacam
SCRIPT WRITER: Mojtaba Hosseini
PHOTOGRAPHER : Keivan Yousefi
EDITOR: Ehsan Bahram Ghafari
SOUND: Ehsan Bahram Ghafari
MUSIC: Hamed Poursa'ee
PRODUCER: IRIB 1, Mojtaba Hosseini
DATE OF PRO: 2006
SYNOPSIS: A look at the situation of ceramist women in Kalpourgan village, in Saravan division.

TITLE: The lost sequence
DIRECTOR: Mohammad Kandi
COUNTRY/CITY: Iran/Kashan
TIME: 19'
FORMAT: Mini DV
SCRIPT WRITER: Mohammad Kandi
PHOTOGRAPHER: Mohammad Kandi
EDITOR: Mohammad Kandi
SOUND: --
MUSIC: --
PRODUCER: DEFC
DATE OF PRO: 2006
SYNOPSIS: A man travels to Abyaneh in search of somebody in an old photo, but he gets haunted there

TITLE: The vine
DIRECTOR: Mohsen Hosseini Tabar
COUNTRY/CITY: Iran/Malayer
TIME :15'
FORMAT: VHS
SCRIPT WRITER: Faranak Bahadori
PHOTOGRAPHER : Mohsen Hosseini Tabar
EDITOR: Mohsen Hosseini Tabar
SOUND: --
MUSIC: --
PRODUCER: IYCS (Malayer)
DATE OF PRO: 2006
SYNOPSIS: Making grape syrup in Malayer.

TITLE: The song of silvery faces
DIRECTOR: Sa'adat Ali Sa'eedpour
COUNTRY/CITY: Iran/Tabriz
TIME: 12'
FORMAT: DV cam
SCRIPT WRITER: Sa'adat Ali Sa'eedpour
PHOTOGRAPHER: Karim Farshad
EDITOR: Sa'adat Ali Sa'eedpour, Karim Mohammadi
SOUND: Karim Mohammadi, Karim Farshad
MUSIC: --
PRODUCER: IYCS(Tabriz), Art Center (East Azarbayejan)
DATE OF PRO: 2006
SYNOPSIS: A documentary about religious icons, mounted on the door of Sahebolamr mosque in Tabriz.

TITLE: Leila
DIRECTOR: Amin Ghadami
COUNTRY/CITY: Iran/ Tehran
TIME : 32'
FORMAT: Mini DV
SCRIPT WRITER: Amin Ghadami
PHOTOGRAPHER : Amin Ghadami, Vahid Chavosh, Maria Della Lestra
EDITOR: Amin Ghadami
SOUND: Ahmad Salehi
MUSIC: --
PRODUCER: Amin Ghadami
DATE OF PRO: 2006
SYNOPSIS: A year and a half after the earthquake, a Spanish photographer goes to Bam.

TITLE: The adventurers
DIRECTOR: Farhad Nouri Moghadam
COUNTRY/CITY: Iran/Kermanshah
TIME: 12'21''
FORMAT: Betacam
SCRIPT WRITER: Farhad Nouri Moghadam
PHOTOGRAPHER: Yousef Soreni Nia
EDITOR: Farhad Nouri Moghadam
SOUND: Mehrdad Bonakdari
MUSIC: Farhad Nouri Moghadam
PRODUCER: IRIB (Kermanshah), Farhad Nouri Moghadam
DATE OF PRO: 2007
SYNOPSIS: A team of climbers goes caving in Everest mountain.

TITLE: The English game
DIRECTOR: Amir Hossein Norouzi, Seyed Mohammad Hossein Nasiri
COUNTRY/CITY: Iran/ Tehran
TIME :
40'
FORMAT: DV
SCRIPT WRITER: Amir Hossein Norouzi
PHOTOGRAPHER : --
EDITOR: Amir Hossein Norouzi
SOUND: Peiman Tavasoli
MUSIC: Peiman Tavasoli
PRODUCER: Ravayat e Fath Group, Habib Valinejad
DATE OF PRO: 2007
SYNOPSIS: A study on the role of English government in foundation of Israeli regime.

TITLE: Catastrophe 61200
DIRECTOR: Amir Zaban Avar, Shahrzad Rastani
COUNTRY/CITY: Iran/ Tehran
TIME: 1'40''
FORMAT: Mini DV
SCRIPT WRITER: Amir Zaban Avar, Shahrzad Rastani
PHOTOGRAPHER: Amir Zaban Avar
EDITOR: Amir Zaban Avar, Shahrzad Rastani
SOUND: --
MUSIC: --
PRODUCER: Amir Zaban Avar, Shahrzad Rastani
DATE OF PRO: 2006
SYNOPSIS: A documentary about the increasing pace of development of transportation industry.

TITLE: The dance of the wheat
DIRECTOR: Rafi Rafi'ee
COUNTRY/CITY: Iran/Mashhad
TIME : 6'30''
FORMAT: DVcam
SCRIPT WRITER: Rafi Rafi'ee
PHOTOGRAPHER : Mehdi Abbaszadeh, Rafi'e Rafi'ee
EDITOR: Rafi Rafi'ee
SOUND: Rafi Rafi'ee
MUSIC: Rafi Rafi'ee
PRODUCER: IRIB (Khorasan Razavi), Rafi Rafi'ee
DATE OF PRO: 2006
SYNOPSIS: A look at the beauty and the value of the wheat.

TITLE: The Mirage
DIRECTOR: Behzad Rasoolzadeh
COUNTRY/CITY: Iran/Talesh
TIME: 18'
FORMAT: Mini DV
SCRIPT WRITER: Behzad Rasoolzadeh
PHOTOGRAPHER: Behzad Rasoolzadeh
EDITOR: Behzad Rasoolzadeh
SOUND: Amir Shokri
MUSIC: --
PRODUCER: DEFC
DATE OF PRO: 2006
SYNOPSIS: About the life of children in border towns.

TITLE: Recognition of an epic
DIRECTOR: Arash Pejman
COUNTRY/CITY: Iran/ Tehran
TIME :30'
FORMAT: Mini DV
SCRIPT WRITER: Arash Pejman
PHOTOGRAPHER : Saman Sha'bani
EDITOR: Sina Banan
SOUND: Ali Bozorglou
MUSIC: Selected by Arash Pejman
PRODUCER: The Sacred Defense Sciences Research Center
DATE OF PRO: 2007
SYNOPSIS: Resistance of the people of
Khoramshahr during the war.

TITLE: The golden dances
DIRECTOR: Ali Kalantari
COUNTRY/CITY: Iran/Karaj
TIME: 26'
FORMAT: MiniDV
SCRIPT WRITER: Ali Kalantari
PHOTOGRAPHER: Alireza Fakhrizadeh
EDITOR: Ali Kalantari
SOUND: Arash Ghasemi
MUSIC: --
PRODUCER: Soureh Film Organization
DATE OF PRO: 2007
SYNOPSIS: Because of the embargo against Iran during the war, an old braid maker can not get the necessary materials for his job.

TITLE: The hand of God
DIRECTOR: Ehsan Reza'ee, Iman Reza'ee
COUNTRY/CITY: Iran/Bandar Abbas
TIME: 13' 50''
FORMAT: DV cam
SCRIPT WRITER: Ehsan Reza'yi, Faramarz Zamani
PHOTOGRAPHER: Rohollah Balouchi
EDITOR: Ehsan Reza'yi
SOUND: Mojtaba Manouchehri, Ali Torabi
MUSIC: --
PRODUCER: Mohammad Mo'een Reza'yi Tazyani
DATE OF PRO: 2007
SYNOPSIS: The story of two Italian ships in Persian Gulf

TITLE: Tabriz, pictures of the forgotten world
DIRECTOR: Mohammad Ehsani
COUNTRY/CITY: Iran/Tehran
TIME : 36'
FORMAT: mini DV
SCRIPT WRITER: Mohammad Ehsani
PHOTOGRAPHER: Farshid Azari
EDITOR: Babak Behdad
SOUND: Farhad Tabrizi
MUSIC: Vartan Vahramian
PRODUCER: Zaven Khachatoorian, Edvin Avayesh, Ali Reza'yi
DATE OF PRO: 2007
SYNOPSIS: Reviewing The history of Tabriz since the constitutional movement until the present day, through the pictures of an Armenian photographer.

TITLE: Closer than breath
DIRECTOR: Parivash Nazarieh
COUNTRY/CITY: Iran/Tehran
TIME: 24'
FORMAT: DV
SCRIPT WRITER: Parivash Nazarieh
PHOTOGRAPHER: Parivash Nazarieh
EDITOR: Mastaneh Mohajer
SOUND: Mohammadreza Delpak
MUSIC: --
PRODUCER: DEFC
DATE OF PRO: 2006
SYNOPSIS: The concept of life and death in huamn's mind

TITLE: Calm and quiet
DIRECTOR: Loghman Khaledi
COUNTRY/CITY: Iran/Tehran
TIME : 18'
FORMAT: mini DV
SCRIPT WRITER: Loghman Khaledi
PHOTOGRAPHER: Mehdi Soleimani, Loghman Khaledi
EDITOR: Loghman Khaledi
SOUND: Mohsen Karami
MUSIC: Loghman Khaledi
PRODUCER: Loghman Khaledi
DATE OF PRO: 2007
SYNOPSIS: A documentary about the problems of renal patients.

TITLE: On the wings of an angel
DIRECTOR: Vahid Zare'zadeh
COUNTRY/CITY: Iran/Tehran
TIME: 25'
FORMAT: DV cam
SCRIPT WRITER: Zahra Moshtagh
PHOTOGRAPHER: Mohammad Ali shirzadi
EDITOR: Vahid Zare'zadeh
SOUND: Ghasem Kazemi
MUSIC: Selected by Vahid Zare'e
PRODUCER: Rozan Tasvir Film Company, Zahra Moshtagh
DATE OF PRO: 2007
SYNOPSIS: In the early days of Islamic revolution a man and a woman fall in love and get married. Later, during the war the man gets injured by chemical weapons and his wife becomes his nurse.

TITLE: Tomorrow's nature
DIRECTOR: Behzad Rasool Zadeh
COUNTRY/CITY: Iran/Talesh
TIME : 1'4''
FORMAT: mini DV
SCRIPT WRITER: Behzad Rasool Zadeh
PHOTOGRAPHER: Behzad Rasool Zadeh
EDITOR: Behzad Rasool Zadeh
SOUND: Behzad Rasool Zadeh
MUSIC: --
PRODUCER: Behzad Rasool Zadeh
DATE OF PRO: 2006-2007
SYNOPSIS: Gambal tress are cut down and replaced by artificial trees.

TITLE: The partner
DIRECTOR: Reza Goodarzi
COUNTRY/CITY: Iran/Tehran
TIME: 3'
FORMAT: DV cam
SCRIPT WRITER: Reza Goodarzi
PHOTOGRAPHER: Hossein Toorang
EDITOR: Ghasem Khoda Bandeloo
SOUND: Ghasem Khoda Bandeloo
MUSIC: --
PRODUCER: IYCS
DATE OF PRO: 2006
SYNOPSIS: A young blind girl and a young boy, who is handicapped from both hands, are co-workers in a computer service office, and…

TITLE: Apparent and hidden
DIRECTOR: Borhan Ahmadi
COUNTRY/CITY: Iran/Tehran
TIME : 13'
FORMAT: DV
SCRIPT WRITER: Borhan Ahmadi
PHOTOGRAPHER: Borhan Ahmadi
EDITOR: Parviz Moghadami
SOUND: Parviz Moghadami
MUSIC: Selected by Borhan Ahmadi
PRODUCER: IYCS
DATE OF PRO: 2006
SYNOPSIS: A 14 year old talented blind girl with great achievements in several fields is struck by Brain Tumor.

TITLE: Ombar
DIRECTOR: Mohammadreza Sarsaaz Yazdi
COUNTRY/CITY: Iran/Yazd
TIME: 13'
FORMAT: DV cam
SCRIPT WRITER: Mohammadreza Sarsaaz Yazdi
PHOTOGRAPHER: Farhad Cheraghi
EDITOR: Seyed Ali Kamaledini
SOUND: Taher Pishva'yi
MUSIC: --
PRODUCER: IRIB(Yazd), Mohammadreza Sarsaaz Yazdi
DATE OF PRO: 2006
SYNOPSIS: Labors of the people in search of water in the desert.

TITLE: That man came
DIRECTOR: Seifollah Yazdani
COUNTRY/CITY: Iran/Qom
TIME : 31'
FORMAT: mini DV
SCRIPT WRITER: Seifollah Yazdani
PHOTOGRAPHER: Davood Rajabi
EDITOR: Maryamosadat Farhadi
SOUND: Jamal Bayat
MUSIC: --
PRODUCER: Seifollah Yazdani
DATE OF PRO: 2007
SYNOPSIS: A student goes to the village nearby to attend school.

TITLE: The reflection of Neinava in Fadisheh,
DIRECTOR: Ali Mohajeran
COUNTRY/CITY: Iran/Neishaboor
TIME: 24'
FORMAT: DV cam
SCRIPT WRITER: Ali Mohajeran
PHOTOGRAPHER: Ali Mohajeran
EDITOR: Ali Mohajeran
SOUND: Ali Mohajeran
MUSIC: Ali Mohajeran
PRODUCER: IRIB (Khorasan e Razavi)
DATE OF PRO: 2006
SYNOPSIS: The ritual ceremony of Ashura in Fadisheh village, in Neishaboor.