The Selected Animated Films for the National Competition Section A

 The Stool

Name of Film: The Stool
Director: Bahman Nazari
Country/City: Tehran
Time: 5 min.
Category: Animation
Format: Beta Cam
Script: Bahman Nazari
Photography: Maryam Saiidi
Editor: -
Sound: Hassan Saroughi
Music: -
Producer: IYCS
Date of Production: 2002

Synopsis: Three satirists look at water as a stool.

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 The Stairs

Name of Film: The Stairs
Director: Masoud Yazdanmehr
Country/City: Tehran
Time: 6 min. 46 sec.
Category: Animation
Format: -
Script: Ghassem Mahmoudi
Photography: -
Editor: Majid Ashegh
Sound: Majid Ashegh
Music: Masoud Yazdanmehr
Producer: IYCS
Date of Production: 2002

Synopsis: A man is climbing up a long stair with a big key on his shoulder. On his way, he notices people, all sleeping. Eventually he arrives at a large door and opens it with his key and then closes it. We see him fallen asleep behind the door.

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 The Bald Pigeon-breeder (An Iranian story)

Name of Film: The Bald Pigeon-breeder (An Iranian story)
Director: Kourosh Dalvand
Country/City: Boroujerd
Time: 12 min.
Category: Animation
Format: Beta Cam
Script: Kourosh Dalvand
Photography: -
Editor: Kourosh Dalvand
Sound: -
Music: Aminollah Hosseini
Producer: IYCS
Date of Production: 2001

Synopsis: The story of a bald poor boy who lives close to the king's palace, and falls in love with the king's daughter, and…

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 What Remains

Name of Film: What Remains
Director: Maziar Mohammadinezhad
Country/City: Shiraz
Time: 5 min. 47 sec.
Category: Animation
Format: Beta Cam
Script: Maziar Mohammadinezhad
Photography: Ahmad Ahmadi-Saadi
Editor: Maziar Mohammadinezhad
Sound: Seyed-Mohammadhassan Nabavinezhad
Music: Hoda Parvaneh
Producer: Maziar Mohammadinezhad
Date of Production: 2000

Synopsis: A child is paging through his painting notebook. Beautiful pictures of nature come into his mind. Man destroys this nature, animals are hunted, and all that remains is a polluted city.

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 The Ring

Name of Film: The Ring
Director: Mahbod Bazrafshan
Country/City: Shiraz
Time: 6 min. 30 sec.
Category: Animation
Format: Beta Cam
Script: Mahbod Bazrafshan
Photography: -
Editor: Soroush Khademi
Sound: -
Music: Mazda Zamani
Producer: IRIB (Fars Center)
Date of Production: 2001

Synopsis: A little red fish is trapped in a golden ring. At first, it is scared, but gradually is interested in the ring as an ornament, and becomes involved in some adventures.

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 Whiter than snow

Title: Whiter than snow
Director: Abbas Esmaeili
Category: Animation
Format: Beta Cam
Time: 4'
Year: 2002
Country: Iran
Script: Abbas Esmaeili
Photography: Mohsen Golchin
Editor: Abbas Esmaeili
Sound: Mohsen Golchin
Music: Saeed Zehni
Producer: Khaneh- Honar

Synopsis: A snowman remembers the time he was made.

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 White

Title: White
Director: Mohammad Djafar Rafiei
Category: Animation
Format: Beta Cam
Time: 6'
Year: 2000
Country: Iran
Script: Mohammad Djafar Rafiei
Photography: Mohammad Djafar Rafiei
Editor: Mohammad Djafar Rafiei
Sound: Abdollahi
Music: Vahid Ali Nezhad
Producer: Mohammad Djafar Rafiei

Synopsis: A flock of birds are migrating to a warm region, suddenly one of them breaks the journey.

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 The doll's house

Title:
The doll's house
Director:
Jamal Oskoui
Category: Animation
Format: Beta Cam
Time: 10'
Year: 2002
Country: Iran
Script:
Photography: Amrolah Mahmoudi
Editor:
Jamal Oskoui
Sound:Hossein Kiani
Music:
Jamal Oskoui
Producer: IRIB,Chahar mahal bakhtiari

Synopsis:A little doll is separated from her mother; but with the help of her mother's sewing tools she retums to hes.

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 Oh, Lady Sun, Shine!


Name of Film: Oh, Lady Sun, Shine!
Director: Abdolreza Saiidnia
Country/City: Boushehr
Time: 14 min.
Category: Animation
Format: Beta Cam
Script: Abdolreza Saiidnia
Photography: -
Editor: Javad Ramezani
Sound: Javad Ramezani
Music: Akbar Ebrahimi
Producer: IRIB (Boushehr Center)
Date of Production: 2001

Synopsis: Everyday, the sun wakes up a lazy boy. That troubles him. So, he wishes the clouds hid the sun. His wish is granted, but there happen a lot of difficulties.
Once again, the child wishes that the life had its own natural course.

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 The Praise

Name of Film: The Praise
Director: Avisheh Rassaiimanesh
Country/City: Tehran
Time: 40 min.
Category: Animation
Format: Beta Cam
Script: Avisheh Rassaiimanesh
Photography: -
Editor: Avisheh Rassaiimanesh, Mehdi Kamran
Sound: Avisheh Rassaiimanesh
Music: Avisheh Rassaiimanesh
Producer: Reza Salah Esfehani
Date of Production: 2001

Synopsis: A gazelle (A traditional Iranian figure for carpet and tissue design) is walking around while it encounters a female gazelle. By using an abstract language and various carpet figures, an emotional link is formed between them. At last a fawn is born which tries to stand and walk.

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 The Need

Name of Film: The Need
Director: Mohammadreza Zahab
Country/City: Hamedan
Time: 4 min.
Category: Animation
Format: Beta Cam
Script: Mohammadmehdi Khodakarami
Photography: -
Editor: Mehdi Khazaii
Sound: -
Music: -
Producer: -
Date of Production: 2001

Synopsis: A beggar finds a piece of paper in garbage and eats it. Then he looks for other items such as pencils, books, radio,…

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 The Light

Name of Film: The Light
Director: Mohammadmehdi Khodakarami
Country/City: Hamedan
Time: 8 min.
Category: Animation
Format: Beta Cam
Script: Mohammadhassan Mirzaii
Photography: Mehdi Saffarpour
Editor: Mohammadmehdi Khodakarami
Sound: -
Music: -
Producer: IRIB (Hamedan Center)
Date of Production: 2001

Synopsis: A butterfly emerges from the cocoon, and looks for light. It sees various lights and eventually is absorbed in moonlight.

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 Conversation

Title: Conversation
Director: Mohammad Mehdi Khoda Karami
Category: Animation
Format: Beta Cam
Time: 8'
Year: 2001
Country: Iran
Script: M.M.Khoda Karami
Photography: M.M.Khoda Karami
Editor: M.M.Khoda Karami
Sound:
Music:
Producer: IRIB, Hamedan

Synopsis: When a " woolen man " meets a metal man.

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 Zal and Simorgh

Name of Film: Zal and Simorgh
Director: Seyed-Mahmoud Saemin
Country/City: Hamedan
Time: 15 min.
Category: Animation
Format: Beta Cam
Script: Seyed-Mahmoud Saemin
Photography: -
Editor: Seyed-Mahmoud Saemin
Sound: Masoud Kamali, Seyed-Mahmoud Saemin
Music: -
Producer: IRIB (Hamedan Center)
Date of Production: 2001

Synopsis: The famous story of Zal, the son of Sam-e-Nariman (Ferdowsi's Shahnameh).

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 Paragraph


Name of Film: Paragraph
Director: Sara Khalili, Mehdi Hosseini
Country/City: Tehran
Time: 3 min. 46 sec.
Category: Animation
Format: DV Cam
Script: Sara Khalili
Photography: Sara Khalili
Editor: Sara Khalili, Mehdi Hosseini
Sound: Sara Khalili, Mehdi Hosseini
Music: Mehdi Hosseini
Producer: Sara Khalili
Date of Production: 2001

Synopsis: Adaptation of a short poem, with a theme about thinking.

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 Towards Zero

Name of Film: Towards Zero
Director: Jamsheed Raoufi Boroujani
Country/City: Tehran
Time: 4 min.
Category: Animation
Format: DV Cam
Script: Jamsheed Raoufi Boroujani
Photography: -
Editor: Azita Rahimi
Sound: Azita Rahimi
Music: Houman Farshidmehr
Producer: IYCS
Date of Production: 2002

Synopsis: The number One wishes to be as big as the other numbers. But at the end it reaches to Zero.

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  Man and Heart

Name of Film: Man and Heart
Director: Amin Abedi
Country/City: Tehran
Time: 7 min.
Category: Animation
Format: DVcam
Script: Amin Abedi
Photography:
Editor: Kiomarth Firozkohi
Sound: -
Music: Mahmoud Mohaghegh
Producer: Amin Abedi
Date of Production: 2001

Synopsis: A mantries to reach a hearton a tree , but he does not succeed.

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 The Blue Boy


Name of Film: The Blue Boy
Director: Bijan Mirbagheri
Country/City: Tehran
Time: 5 min. 30 sec.
Category: Animation
Format: DVcam
Script: Bijan Mirbagheri
Photography: Alireza Saharkhiz
Editor: Mahmoud Mohaghegh
Sound: -
Music: Mahmoud Mohaghegh
Producer: IYCS
Date of Production: 2002

Synopsis: A little boy going out to park with his grandpa, is lost. He uselessly tries to find the grandpa, and at last a voice helps, leading him to the park manager's office, where he finds him.

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 Wind's House

Name of Film: Wind's House
Director: Saadat Rahimzadeh
Country/City: Tehran
Time: 7 min.
Category: Animation
Format: 16 mm.
Script: Saadat Rahimzadeh
Photography: Abdolkhalegh Taheri
Editor: Ebrahim Saiidi
Sound: -
Music: Amirhossein Jalili
Producer: Saadat Rahimzadeh
Date of Production: 2002

Synopsis: A meeting between a woman and a dandelion causes a beautiful relation that makes a man fall in love with the woman. The woman and dandelion go by, and the man turns into a dandelion looking for them.

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