The Selected Animated Films for the National Competition Section A
 The 2nd Day of Creation

Title: The 2nd Day of Creation
Director: Saiid Tarazi
Country/City: Tehran
Time: 7’
Category: Animation
Format: 35 mm
Screenplay: Saiid Tarazi
Cinematographer: Amin Jafari
Editor: Saiid Pouresmaiili
Sound:
Score: Kaveh Faraji
Producer: IYCS
Date of Production: 2003

Synopsis: An artificial human rehearses singing in a dark and endless space. Every time his voice is in its height, he faces a danger.

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 The Mystery of Frontiers

Title: The Mystery of Frontiers
Director: Zahra Sanamno
Country/City: Tehran
Time: 5’
Category: Animation
Format: 35 mm
Screenplay: Zahra Sanamno
Cinematographer:
Editor: Zahra Sanamno
Sound: Behrouz Shahamat
Score: Behrouz Shahamat, Zahra Sanamno
Producer: Young Cinematographers House (Samfilm)
Date of Production: 2002

Synopsis: A person is travelling all over the Earth. The frontiers impede him like a jungle of ropes. Trying to get rid of them, he encounters a spider whose web has strangled the lands like a trap.

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 Carton

Title: Carton
Director: Mohammad Abdi, Shirin Abdi
Country/City: Tehran
Time: 4’ 20”
Category: Animation
Format: Beta Cam
Screenplay: Farhad Abdi
Cinematographer:
Editor: Mohammad Abdi
Sound: Mohammad Abdi
Score: Morteza Saiiad
Producer: Mohammad Abdi, Shirin Abdi
Date of Production: 2003

Synopsis: Humans are seated separately in carton-like rooms, and do always the same thing. At last they cause the destruction of the Earth.

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 Don’t Get Angry, Pincers

Title: Don’t Get Angry, Pincers
Director: Jamal Oskouii
Country/City: Shahrekord
Time: 10’
Category: Animation
Format: Beta Cam
Screenplay:
Cinematographer: Ebrahim Mahmoudi
Editor: Jamal Oskouii
Sound: Hossein Babakhani
Score: Jamal Oskouii
Producer: IRIB (Chaharmohalebakhtiari Center)
Date of Production: 2003

Synopsis: Some nails are playing. They make noises, and the pincers is disturbed. This causes quarrel.

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 My Daddy’s Car

Title: My Daddy’s Car
Director: Farshid Shafii
Country/City: Tehran
Time: 5’
Category: Animation
Format: Beta Cam
Screenplay: Farshid Shafii
Cinematographer: Farshid Shafii
Editor: Farshid Shafii
Sound: Mehrdad Banaii
Score: Farshid Shafii
Producer: Farshid Shafii
Date of Production: 2001

Synopsis: The imagination of a child about the car.

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 Recycling

Title: Recycling
Director: Keyvan Nezamabadi
Country/City: Tehran
Time: 4’
Category: Animation
Format: Beta Cam
Screenplay: Keyvan Nezamabadi
Cinematographer: Majid Jannesari
Editor:
Sound:
Score:
Producer: IYCS
Date of Production: 2003

Synopsis: Garbage disposal faces the main character with problems, and he is forced to decide.

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 The Blue Tomorrow

Title: The Blue Tomorrow
Director: Safarali Majidizad
Country/City: Yazd
Time: 1’
Category: Animation
Format: Beta Cam
Screenplay: Farzaneh Talebinezhad
Cinematographer: Farzaneh Talebinezhad
Editor: Alimohammad Dehghan
Sound: Alimohammad Dehghan
Score: Safarali Majidizad
Producer: IRIB (Yazd Center)
Date of Production: 2001

Synopsis: A stork takes its nest and flies over the polluted sky of a city. It puts its nest over a chimney. So, the chimney is blocked and the sky gets clear and blue.

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 The Paradox

Title: The Paradox
Director: Mahmood Fakhrinezhad
Country/City: Rasht
Time: 10’
Category: Animation
Format: Beta Cam
Screenplay: Mahmood Fakhrinezhad
Cinematographer: Roshanak Maleki
Editor: Matin Faeghirad
Sound:
Score: Shervan Ahmadzadeh
Producer: IRIB (Gilan Center)
Date of Production: 2002

Synopsis: The film begins by showing the entrance to a cave. A tree is there as a symbol of life. The camera travels through the foliage and finds a bird’s nest. The chickens are waiting for their mother. The film continues from their point of view. A girl is standing in front of a ruin and watches her past…

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 The Train

Title: The Train
Director: Babak Nazari
Country/City: Karaj
Time: 3’
Category: Animation
Format: Beta Cam
Screenplay: Babak Nazari
Cinematographer: Babak Nazari
Editor: Babak Nazari
Sound: Babak Nazari
Score: Babak Nazari
Producer: Babak Nazari
Date of Production: 2002

Synopsis: Using a train as a symbol of life.

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 Tired and no more

Title: Tired and no more
Director: Bahareh Tabatabaii Masouleh
Country/City: Tehran
Time: 3’ 58”
Category: Animation
Format: Beta Cam
Screenplay: Bahareh Tabatabaii Masouleh
Cinematographer: Bahareh Tabatabaii Masouleh
Editor: Bahareh Tabatabaii Masouleh
Sound: Bahareh Tabatabaii Masouleh, Hami Haghighi
Score: Hami Haghighi
Producer: Bahareh Tabatabaii Masouleh
Date of Production: 2002

Synopsis: A little girl whose great dream had been to become a pilot is now a woman drowned in the routines of boring everyday life.

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 Mehrana

Title: Mehrana
Director: Morteza Jahanpour
Country/City: Tehran
Time: 12’
Category: Animation
Format: DV
Screenplay: Morteza Jahanpour
Cinematographer: Morteza Jahanpour
Editor: Morteza Jahanpour
Sound: Morteza Jahanpour
Score: Morteza Jahanpour
Producer: Morteza Jahanpour
Date of Production: 2003

Synopsis: A girl lives in an imaginary castle with her dreams. One night she steps into a new world that she has been looking for since a long time.

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 Mother’s Paintings

Title: Mother’s Paintings
Director: Nima Meigoli
Country/City: Tehran
Time: 7’
Category: Animation
Format: DV
Screenplay: Nima Meigoli
Cinematographer: Mehdi Gheissari
Editor: Kamyar Khosravi
Sound:
Score:
Producer: Mohammad Afarideh, Documentary and Experimental Cinema Development Center
Date of Production: 2003

Synopsis: A mother paints for her newborn baby, and the paintings play for the child.

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 The Little Bit

Title: The Little Bit
Director: Farnoush Abedi
Country/City: Iran/Tehran
Time: 8’
Category: Animation
Format: DV
Screenplay: Leo Leoni
Cinematographer: Farnoush Abedi
Editor: Mojtaba Sadkhosravi
Sound: Mojtaba Sadkhosravi
Score: Soroush Abedi
Producer: Documentary and Experimental Cinema Development Center
Date of Production: 2003

Synopsis: A little piece that has gone beyond its tiny world to discover the truth finds out that it has the same value as others.

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 The Pit

Title: The Pit
Director: Vahid Nasirian
Country/City: Iran/Tehran
Time: 6’ 35”
Category: Animation
Format: DV Cam
Screenplay: Vahid Nasirian
Cinematographer:
Editor: Mostafa Alahmad
Sound: Mohsen Namjou
Score: Mohsen Namjou
Producer: Vahid Nasirian
Date of Production: 2003

Synopsis: A man, while walking in a desert, encounters hands that crawl from beneath the earth and offer him strange creatures. He gets involved and soon finds himself in a pit and realizes that his life has been ruined.

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