The Selected Documentary Films for the National Competition Section B

 The Oil

Name of Film: The Oil
Director: Arash Kurdsali
Country/City: Ahvaz
Time: 19 min.
Category: Documentary
Format: S.VHS
Script: Arash Kurdsali
Photography: Reza Barideh
Editor: Arash Kurdsali
Sound: Ali Sultani Tehrani
Music: Soroush Sultani Tehrani
Producer:
IYCS - Ahvaz
Date of Production: 2002

Synopsis: A Documentary about a quarter in Masjid-Suleiman, called Naftkhiz Kouy, which is being gradually destructed.

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 Part of the Body

Name of Film: Part of the Body
Director: Farhad Azmoun
Country/City: Kermanshah
Time: 11 min.
Category: Documentary
Format: S.VHS
Script: Farhad Azmoun
Photography: Kamran Rezaii
Editor: Kamran Rezaii
Sound: Kamran Rezaii
Music: Farhad Azmoun
Producer: IYCS - Kermanshah
Date of Production: 2001

Synopsis: A man goes to kidney patients' society to donate his kidney, but married men must submit consent from their spouse.

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  Flash back

Name of Film: Flash back
Director: Saiideh Adli
Country/City: Ardebil
Time: 7 min.
Category: Documentary
Format: S.VHS
Script: Saiideh Adli
Photography: Valiollah Arjmand
Editor: Saiideh Adli
Sound: Saiideh Adli
Music: Saiideh Adli
Producer: IYCS - Ardebil
Date of Production: 2002

Synopsis: An old and disabled donkey lives its last days of life in a zoo, recalling days of youth when he was active in the village. At last it is slaughtered by the zoo-keeper as food for other animals.

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 The Lasting Temple

Name of Film: The Lasting Temple
Director: Mohammadbagher Hantoushzadeh
Country/City: Dezfoul
Time: 7 min.
Category: Documentary
Format: S.VHS
Script: -
Photography: Mohammadbagher Hantoushzadeh
Editor: Mohammadbagher Hantoushzadeh
Sound: -
Music: -
Producer: IYCS - Dezfoul
Date of Production: 2001

Synopsis: A documentary about the mystery of lasting of Choghazanbil Temple.

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  Chahdarya

Name of Film: Chahdarya
Director: Fatima Mollaii
Country/City: Rafsanjan
Time: 12 min. 20 sec.
Category: Documentary
Format: S.VHS
Script: Fatima Mollaii
Photography: Abbas Balouchi
Editor: Mohammad Khalilinezhad, Hossein Mohammadhosseini
Sound: Mahdieh Khodadai
Music: Fatima Mollaii
Producer:
IYCS - Rafsanjan
Date of Production: 2001

Synopsis: Chahdarya is a wonderful phenomenon in Rafsanjan that results from sinking of the earth and formation of very large holes 90 meters wide and up to 90 meters depth that then become filled with water. This film presents sea-wells and the problem of water shortage in Rafsanjan area.

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 The Hens Don't Lay Eggs

Name of Film: The Hens Don't Lay Eggs
Director: Farhad Mokhtari
Country/City: Khorramabad
Time: 12 min.
Category: Documentary
Format: S.VHS
Script: Farhad Mokhtari
Photography: Farhad Mokhtari
Editor: Farhad Mokhtari
Sound: Farhad Mokhtari
Music: Farhad Mokhtari
Producer:IYCS - Khorramabad
Date of Production: 2001

Synopsis: Due to war explosions,birds have been stressed and don't lay eggs.

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  Porzousar

Name of Film: Porzousar
Director: Alireza Moghaddam
Country/City: Gorgan
Time: 9 min.
Category: Documentary-Fiction
Format:
Script: Alireza Moghaddam
Photography: Alireza Moghaddam
Editor: Alireza Moghaddam
Sound: Masoud Emami
Music: -
Producer:
IYCS - Gorgan
Date of Production: 2001

Synopsis: A film about traditional hunting of birds in forests, which threatens their survival.

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 The Snake

Name of Film: The Snake
Director: Mehdi Asghari
Country/City: Gonabad
Time: 17 min.
Category: Documentary
Format: SV
Script: Mehdi Asghari
Photography: Mohammad Baradaran
Editor: Mohammad Baradaran
Sound: Seyedali Sodouri
Music: Mohammad Baradaran
Producer: IYCS - Gonabad
Date of Production: 2002

Synopsis: A film about snakes, snake-catchers, and the relation between snakes and men.

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 The Love Phoenix

Name of Film: The Love Phoenix
Director: Gholamali Sorkhabi
Country/City: Neyshabour
Time: 8 min.
Category: Documentary
Format: S.VHS
Script: Gholamali Sorkhabi
Photography: Mehdi Kalali, Alireza Ghotbzadeh
Editor: Vahid Bayan, Hossein Najjaran
Sound: -
Music: Majid Saneii
Producer: IYCS - Neyshabour
Date of Production: 2002

Synopsis: The Love Phoenix is an exhibition of the works of Ostad Abolghasem Akhavian, the brick-carver, who has devoted his life to a godly art. Inspired by his spiritual guide, Sheikh-Attar-Neishabouri, this alchemist, carves his brick birds. In the harmony of the wounds of the adze of this master there are melodies of love that come out of the fine throats of birds along with folk songs that have a theme of love, and make the masters' birds fly high with the wings soaked in blood.

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  H

Name of Film: H
Director: Mostafa Rashnou, Mohammad Sarmastani
Country/City: Boroujerd
Time: 7 min. 5 sec.
Category: Documentary
Format: S.VHS
Script: Mostafa Rashnou
Photography: Mostafa Rashnou
Editor: Mostafa Rashnou, Mohammad Sarmastani
Sound: Mohammad Sarmastani
Music: -
Producer:IYCS -  Boroujerd
Date of Production: 2002

Synopsis: This film is about making a chimney in the shape of H.

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  The Citizen

Name of Film: The Citizen
Director: Alimohammad Sarjepeyma
Country/City: Kashan
Time: 10 min.
Category: Documentary
Format: S.VHS
Script: Alimohammad Sarjepeyma
Photography: Alimohammad Sarjepeyma
Editor: Alimohammad Sarjepeyma
Sound: Alimohammad Sarjepeyma
Music: Alimohammad Sarjepeyma
Producer: IYCS - Kashan
Date of Production: 2001

Synopsis: Interview with some citizens about different subjects.

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 The Sidewalk

Name of Film: The Sidewalk
Director: Alireza Kafi
Country/City: Tehran
Time: 9 min.
Category: Documentary
Format: VHS
Script: -
Photography: Ahmad Zahedi
Editor: Pouya Dalili
Sound: -
Music: -
Producer: Alireza Kafi
Date of Production: 2000-2001

Synopsis: The Sidewalk is about people whom we pass by every day. It is about the untold problems of these ordinary people: their social difficulties and their political and economic concerns. I planted my camera in front of them and asked them to say what they really want to say.

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 Everything Is in the End

Name of Film: Everything Is in the End
Director: Hamid Lachini
Country/City: -
Time: 5 min. 30 sec.
Category: Documentary
Format: VHS
Script: Hamid Lachini
Photography: Hamid Lachini
Editor: Mohammad Ghezavati
Sound: Mohammad Ghezavati
Music: -
Producer: IYCS - Ghazvin
Date of Production: 2001

Synopsis: A documentary about decaying Ghazvin Jamea Mosque.

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 Khanoum Bolour

Name of Film: Khanoum Bolour
Director: Ali Jahani
Country/City: Ghom
Time: 27 min.
Category: Documentary
Format: VHS
Script: -
Photography: Ali Jahani
Editor: Ali Jahani
Sound: -
Music: -
Producer: Ali Jahani
Date of Production: 2002

Synopsis: Mrs. Fatima Bolouri is an 110 years age old woman, with peculiar character, and known as Fatima Bolour. It is 30 years that, as told unwillingly by herself and her relatives, she is metaphisically connected with the other world. This connection is with jinn.

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  Mahbobeh

Name of Film: Mahbobeh
Director: Morteza Payehshenas
Country/City: Tehran
Time: 5 min.
Category: Documentary
Format: VHS
Script: Mohammad Shakibaii
Photography: Meysam Molaii
Editor: Morteza Payehshenas
Sound: -
Music: Morteza Payehshenas
Producer: Mohammad Shakibaii
Date of Production: 2002

Synopsis: I am Mahboubeh Eslami. I am 13 years old and have 5th school degree. Last year when I was busy weaving carpets…

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  Beyond the Silence

Name of Film: Beyond the Silence
Director: Mohammadreza Aslani
Country/City: Tehran
Time: 4 min.
Category: Documentary-Fiction
Format: VHS
Script: Mohammadreza Aslani
Photography: Reza Almasi
Editor: Farhad Nikkar
Sound: Saleh Boustian
Music: Mohammadreza Aslani
Producer: Mohammadreza Aslani
Date of Production: 2001

Synopsis: War, poverty, and destruction…

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 Ma Rast Ghamatan

Name of Film:  Ma Rast Ghamatan
Director: Mohammadhossein Nikoupour
Country/City: Shiraz
Time: 9 min. 30 sec.
Category: Documentary
Format: VHS
Script: Mohammadhossein Nikoupour
Photography: Mohsen Moghaddam
Editor: Mohsen Moghaddam
Sound: Mohsen Moghaddam
Music: -
Producer: IYCS - Shiraz
Date of Production: 2001

Synopsis: Story of a devoted soldier, as told by himself.

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 Which Side of This Wind

Name of Film: Which Side of This Wind
Director: Amir Mousavi
Country/City: Shahinshahr
Time: 15 min.
Category: Documentary
Format: VHS
Script: Amir Mousavi
Photography: Houman Behmanesh
Editor: Amir Mousavi
Sound: Houman Behmanesh, Mohammad Berenjian
Music: Amir Mousavi
Producer: Amir Mousavi
Date of Production: 2001

Synopsis: One day of my father's life.

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 The Growth

Name of Film: The Growth
Director: Hamid Ghanbari
Country/City: Kerman
Time: 13 min.
Category: Documentary
Format: VHS
Script: -
Photography: Hamid Ghanbari???
Editor: Ali Hosseininezhad
Sound: Ali Hosseininezhad
Music: -
Producer: IYCS - Kerman
Date of Production: 2001

Synopsis: A heroin-addicted 16-year-old boy goes to a rehabilitation center and returns to society after 40 days of admission,rehabilitated.

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