Iranian International Shortfilm Festival ( IYCS)

The Selected Documentary Films for the National Competition Section A

Makhounik

Title: Makhounik
Director: Ali Vafadar
Country/City: Tehran
Time: 18’

Category: Documentary
Format: 16 mm
Screenplay:
Cinematographer: Hassan Seyediparishan
Editor: Ali Vafadar
Sound: Sadegh Sadeghi
Score: Folklore
Producer: IRIB Faculty
Date of Production:

Synopsis: About one of the most wonderful villages of Iran, Makhounik.

The Seventh Paragraph

Title: The Seventh Paragraph
Director: Taha Shoja’-Nouri
Country/City: Iran/Tehran
Time: 18’

Category: Documentary
Format: 35 mm
Screenplay: Taha Shoja’-Nouri
Cinematographer: Reza Rakhshan
Editor: Taha Shoja’-Nouri
Sound: Hamid Gourani
Score: Es-hagh Chegini
Producer: IRIB (Channel 1)
Date of Production: 2003

Synopsis: Es-hagh is a lonely man who makes a very melodious musical instrument, and performs singly a whole piece of music.

Raana Farnoud

Title: Raana Farnoud
Director: Pouya Arianpour
Country/City: Iran/Tehran
Time: 17’
Category: Documentary

Format: Beta Cam
Screenplay: Pouya Arianpour
Cinematographer: Kaveh Shahmohammadlou
Editor: Kaveh Shahmohammadlou
Score: Bahar Behbahani
Producer: The Painters Society Educational Committee
Date of Production: 2002

Synopsis: Artistic development of the painter Raana Farnoud, and factors influencing his creativity.

The End

Title: The End
Director: Kourosh Farzanegan
Country/City: Rasht

Time: 5’
Category: Documentary
Format: Beta Cam
Screenplay: Kourosh Farzanegan
Cinematographer: Farhad Rabiee
Editor: Farhad Rabiee
Sound: Farhad Rabiee
Score:
Producer: IRIB (Gilan Center)
Date of Production: 2002

Synopsis: The inner life of an old man who lives by making anchors.

The Nectar

Title: The Nectar
Director: Abbas Mohajeran
Country/City: Mashad

Time: 11’
Category: Documentary
Format: Beta Cam
Screenplay: Abbas Mohajeran
Cinematographer: Abbas Mohajeran
Editor: Abbas Mohajeran
Sound: Mohsen Tayebi, Hassan Hadi
Score:
Producer: IRIB (Khorassan Center)
Date of Production: 2002

Synopsis: Life of bees, and how humans exploit this insect.

Avat (The Wish)

Title: Avat (The Wish)
Director: Omid Rastbin
Country/City: Iran/Tehran

Time: 18’
Category: Documentary
Format: DV
Screenplay: Omid Rastbin
Cinematographer: Erfan A’mi
Editor: Rouzbeh Nasseri
Sound: Hossein Ghourchian

Producer: Omid Rastbin
Date of Production: 2002

Synopsis: The wedding party of Pir-e-Shalyar in Ouramanat (Kurdistan), as viewed by a grandma and a 12-year-old girl, herself an heir to Pir-e-Shalyar.

Douz (The Salt)

Title: Douz (The Salt)
Director: Mahvash Sheikholeslami
Country/City: Iran/Tehran

Time: 21’
Category: Documentary
Format: DV
Screenplay: Mahvash Sheikholeslami
Cinematographer: Morteza Poursamadi
Editor: Mohsen Abdolvahab
Sound: Akbar Yaghoubi, Amirhossein Ghassemi
Producer: Documentary and Experimental Cinema Development Center
Date of Production: 2003

Synopsis:

Galeshmard

Title: Galeshmard
Director: Hatam Naiijzadeh

Country/City: Iran/Tehran
Time: 14’ 23”
Category: Documentary
Format: DV
Cinematographer: Rouhollah Beigi
Editor: Khodarahm Alibazi
Sound: Zaman Lotfian
Producer: Hatam Naiijzadeh
Date of Production: 2003

Synopsis: A lonely Galeshmard (cowherd) along with his cattle fights the hard nature all his life.

Hadreseh

Title: Hadreseh
Director: Ramtin Lavanipour
Country/City: Tehran
Time: 23’
Category: Documentary

Format: DV
Screenplay: Ramtin Lavanipour
Cinematographer: Touraj Aslani
Editor: Ramtin Lavanipour
Sound: Taher Pishvaii, Hossein Ghourchian
Score: Darioush Namdar-Zangeneh
Producer: IRIB Faculty (Production Group), Mahmoud Golmohammadi
Date of Production: 2003

Synopsis: In the remote village of Ena, the children play Hadreseh, a play with date and stone, an old ritual. In Kohkilouyeh, whenever people begged for rain, Hadreseh was the play by which to express their hope and their belief.

In Gray

Title: In Gray
Director: Ali Mossafa Tabrizi
Country/City: Iran/Tehran
Time: 25’
Category: Documentary
Format: DV
Screenplay:
Cinematographer: Ali Mossafa Tabrizi
Editor: Ali Mossafa Tabrizi
Sound:
Score: Ali Mossafa Tabrizi
Producer: Kamal Tabrizi
Date of Production: 2003

Synopsis: An interview with Janbazan of the Imposed War in their sanatorium.

Lamentation Land (Faghanestan)

Title: Lamentation Land (Faghanestan)
Director: Amin Ghadami
Country/City: Tehran

Time: 17’ 24”
Category: Documentary
Format: DV
Screenplay:
Cinematographer: Amin Ghadami
Editor: Amin Ghadami, Ali Razzaghi
Sound: Seyedmohammad Khatami
Score:
Producer: Amin Ghadami
Date of Production: 2002

Synopsis: A filming group has a mission for Afghanistan war. At the frontier they have to stay in Zahedan while permission is given to pass to Afghanistan…

Men Don’t Cry

Title: Men Don’t Cry
Director: Peyman Nahanghodrati
Country/City: Iran/Bandar Anzali

Time: 12’
Category: Documentary
Format: DV
Screenplay: Peyman Nahanghodrati
Cinematographer: Peyman Nahanghodrati
Editor: Peyman Nahanghodrati
Sound: Mojtaba Hedayati
Score: Peyman Nahanghodrati
Producer: Peyman Nahanghodrati
Date of Production: 2003

Synopsis: A documentary about miners and their laborious work.

Metamorphosis

Title: Metamorphosis
Director: Faramak Soleimani-Dashtaki
Country/City: Iran/Shahrekord
Time: 24’

Category: Documentary
Format: DV
Screenplay: Faramak Soleimani-Dashtaki
Cinematographer: Faramak Soleimani-Dashtaki
Editor: Saiid Montazeri
Sound:
Score:
Producer: Faramak Soleimani-Dashtaki
Date of Production: 2002

Synopsis: Some students are tenants in the basement of a house and live together with the landlord and another family.

Sorrow for Sharif

Title: Sorrow for Sharif
Director: Mehdi Parizad
Country/City: Tehran
Time: 20’
Category: Documentary

Format: DV
Screenplay: Mehdi Parizad
Cinematographer: Mehdi Mohammadi Badrabad
Editor: Rouzbeh Jafarzadeh
Sound: Morteza Mehrafza
Score:
Producer: Mehdi Parizad, Mohammadreza Mehrafza (Tehran New Wave Cultural-Artistic Institution)
Date of Production: 2002

Synopsis: Mohammad, an Afghani boy who works with a tile moa’rraghkar craftsman, decides to return home when the war has ended. He is faced with his master’s opposition, and…

The Coquetry of Fire

Title: The Coquetry of Fire
Director: Sirous Ranjbar
Country/City: Iran/Tehran

Time: 30’
Category: Documentary
Format: DV
Screenplay: Sirous Ranjbar
Cinematographer: Hamid Faramarzi
Editor: Sirous Ranjbar
Sound: Enayat Talaii
Producer: Documentary and Experimental Cinema Development Center
Date of Production: 2002

Synopsis: A documentary about firing in a classroom in one of the villages of Fouman, on 7 February 1997.

The Dream Buildings

Title: The Dream Buildings
Director: Mohsen Sakha
Country/City: Tehran
Time: 21’
Category: Documentary

Format: DV
Screenplay: Mohsen Sakha
Cinematographer: Seyedmohammadsadegh Jafari
Editor: Mohsen Sakha
Sound: Mohammadreza Salehi
Score:
Producer: Mohsen Sakha
Date of Production: 2002

Synopsis: Haj Moslem Zal is an old man who dreams of Hazrat Abolfazl who orders him to build a mosque and a rest house for the elderly, and pay for the wedding of ten young couples. He tries to realize his dream but is faced with opposition of Oghaf Administration. However he builds the mosque.

The Pleasure of Killing

Title: The Pleasure of Killing
Director: Alimohammad Ghassemi

Country/City: Iran/Tehran
Time: 21’
Category: Documentary
Format: DV
Screenplay: Alimohammad Ghassemi
Cinematographer: Alimohammad Ghassemi
Editor: Alimohammad Ghassemi
Sound: Alimohammad Ghassemi
Producer: Documentary and Experimental Cinema Development Center
Date of Production: 2002

Synopsis: A field keeper is ordered to guide some hunters who have permission for hunting.

The Song of the Fire

Title: The Song of the Fire
Director: Mehdi Parizad
Country/City: Tehran
Time: 9’ 41”
Category: Documentary

Format: DV
Screenplay: Mehdi Parizad
Cinematographer: Mehdi Parizad
Editor: Seyedahmad Moussavi
Sound: Farid Navaii
Score: Mehdi Parizad, Seyedahmad Moussavi
Producer: Tehran New Wave Cultural and Artistic Institution
Date of Production: 2003

Synopsis: About Daravish Sama’. The film shows how Sama’ spreads among other beings.

The Soul of Corals

Title: The Soul of Corals
Director: Seyed-Mani Mirsadeghi
Country/City: Iran/Tehran
Time: 15’
Category: Documentary
Format: DV

Screenplay: Seyed-Mani Mirsadeghi
Cinematographer: Farzin Khosroshahi, Seyed-Mani Mirsadeghi
Editor: Behrang Sanjabi
Sound: Seyed-Mani Mirsadeghi
Score: Mohammadreza Aligholi
Producer: IRIB (Channel 1), Seyed-Mani Mirsadeghi, Documentary and Experimental Cinema Development Center
Date of Production: 2002

Synopsis: A documentary about submarine ecobiology of Oman sea and Persian Gulf.

The Window

Title: The Window
Director: Behzad Rassoulzadeh
Country/City: Iran/Tehran
Time: 18’

Category: Documentary
Format: DV
Screenplay: Behzad Rassoulzadeh
Cinematographer: Behzad Rassoulzadeh
Editor: Behzad Rassoulzadeh

Score: Behzad Rassoulzadeh
Producer: Documentary and Experimental Cinema Development Center
Date of Production: 2002

Synopsis: A documentary about divorce and its effects on the children and their future.

An Underground Report

Title: An Underground Report
Director: Mehdi Naderi

Country/City: Iran/Tehran
Time: 43’
Category: Documentary
Format: DV Cam
Screenplay: Mehdi Naderi
Cinematographer: Mehdi Naderi
Editor: Farshad Fadaiian
Sound: Hossein Ghourchian
Producer: Documentary and Experimental Cinema Development Center
Date of Production: 2002

Synopsis: A report of underground relics that some people dream to possess them and others abuse their dreams.

Endless Road

Title: Endless Road
Director: Bahman Dadfar
Country/City: Tehran

Time: 25’
Category: Documentary
Format: DV Cam
Screenplay: Bahman Dadfar
Cinematographer: Morteza Gheidi
Editor: Shahram Mokri
Sound: Bahman Dadfar
Score: Peyman Tavassoli
Producer: Bahman Dadfar
Date of Production: 2003

Synopsis: I suppose the road is longer compared to last year? Or, maybe it is because I am going alone? But I don’t know why I am going. Maybe something powerful is attracting me there…

Glass Ceiling

Title: Glass Ceiling
Director: Maryam-Sadat Hosseini-Darbrazi
Country/City: Iran/Karaj
Time: 9’

Category: Documentary
Format: DV Cam
Screenplay: Maryam-Sadat Hosseini-Darbrazi
Cinematographer: Babak Bazrafshan
Editor: Abolfazl Jarrah
Sound: Arash Raiissian
Score: Maryam-Sadat Hosseini-Darbrazi
Producer: Maryam-Sadat Hosseini-Darbrazi
Date of Production: 2002

Synopsis: A documentary about a young potter woman, Jeyran Fakhr-Mousavi.

How Wonderful

Title: How Wonderful
Director: Omid Bonakdar, Keyvan Alimohammadi
Country/City: Tehran
Time: 21’

Category: Documentary
Format: DV Cam
Screenplay: Omid Bonakdar, Keyvan Alimohammadi
Cinematographer: Homayoun Payvar
Editor: Omid Bonakdar, Keyvan Alimohammadi
Sound: Mohammadreza Divdel, Keyvan Jahanshahi
Score: Omid Bonakdar, Keyvan Alimohammadi
Producer: IYCS
Date of Production: 2002

Synopsis: A documentary about the life and works of Iran Daroudi, the contemporary painter.

If I Could Speak Again

Title: If I Could Speak Again

Director: Hiva Amin-Nezhad
Country/City: Baneh
Time: 20’
Category: Documentary
Format: DV Cam
Screenplay: Hiva Amin-Nezhad
Cinematographer: Erfan Aami, Omid Shekarbazi
Editor: Hiva Amin-Nezhad
Sound: Aziz Navidf
Score:
Producer: Hiva Amin-Nezhad
Date of Production: 2002

Synopsis: The girls of a frontier village of Sardasht (Eslamabad), have been afflicted by an unknown illness. Nahid is one of these girls.

Rakhsh On a Painting

Title: Rakhsh On a Painting
Director: Mohammad Ehsani
Country/City: Tehran

Time: 16’ 30”
Category: Documentary
Format: DV Cam
Screenplay: Mohammad Ehsani
Cinematographer: Bayram Fazli
Editor: Mehdi Bagheri
Sound: Rouhollah Jafarbeigi, Shahrouz Tavakkol
Score: Selection
Producer: Hamed Soleimanpanah
Date of Production: 2002

Synopsis: The life of an old masseur in one of the old baths of Tabriz, who also does Naghali (narrates Shahnameh).

The Blue Dream of Love

Title: The Blue Dream of Love
Director: Jamshid Raoufi-Boroujani
Country/City: Tehran
Time: 15’

Category: Documentary
Format: DV Cam
Screenplay: Hossein Nourshargh, Jamshid Raoufi-Boroujani
Cinematographer: Majid Ghorbanifar
Editor: Jamal Oskouii
Sound: Hossein Babakhani, Jamal Oskouii
Score:
Producer: IYCS (Tehran)
Date of Production: 2003

Synopsis: The life of Behrouz Saberi, a man from a remote village of Chaharmohal Bakhtiari, from childhood, when he was in fond of Imam Khomeini, till his disappearance in the war, as told by his parents.

The Dream of the Captain’s Son

Title: The Dream of the Captain’s Son
Director: Abolfazl Tavakkoli
Country/City: Iran/Tehran
Time: 27’

Category: Documentary
Format: DV Cam
Screenplay: Abolfazl Tavakkoli
Cinematographer: Abhari, Tavakkoli
Editor: Abolfazl Tavakkoli
Sound: Abolfazl Tavakkoli
Score: Abolfazl Tavakkoli
Producer: Documentary and Experimental Cinema Development Center, Tamasha Cultural Institute
Date of Production: 2003

Synopsis: Mohammad, a young boy from Shiraz, comes to Tehran to act in a film.

The Last Arrow of Arash

Title: The Last Arrow of Arash
Director: Habib Ahmadzadeh
Country/City: Tehran
Time: 39’ 30”

Category: Documentary
Format: DV Cam
Screenplay: Habib Ahmadzadeh
Cinematographer: Seyed Ebrahim Asgharzadeh
Editor: Ali Darouvar, Adel Memarnia, Hossein Mohebjalili
Sound: Ali Darouvar
Score: Behnam Sabouhi
Producer: Noushin Khoddami
Date of Production: 2003

Synopsis: Following the crash of Topolov carrying Seyed Ebrahim Asgharzadeh, some of his friends have decided to finish his documentary about an ancient jar on top of Mond Mountains, in Boushehr…

The Last Bath

Title: The Last Bath

Director: Mostafa Emami
Country/City: Iran/Tehran
Time: 22’
Category: Documentary
Format: DV Cam
Cinematographer: Abbas Fathi-Ashkani
Editor: Farshad Fadaiian

Score: Farshad Fadaiian
Date of Production: 2002-2003

Synopsis: The life of Behesht-e-Zahra morticians during a day.

The Painting Competition

Title: The Painting Competition
Director: Mehrdad Farid
Country/City: Tehran

Category: Documentary
Format: DV Cam
Screenplay: Mehrdad Farid
Cinematographer: Jafar Baratimehr, Masoud Jafari
Editor: Mehrdad Farid
Sound: Arash Rahimzadeh
Score: Farzad Ghiassi
Producer: Mehrdad Farid, Jafar Abdipour
Date of Production: 2003

Synopsis: A student talented in painting decides to send some paintings of his own to a competition, each one in the name of one of his friends, in order to gain all the awards. He wins, but none of the friends agree to give him back the award.

The Voice of My Musical Instrument

Title: The Voice of My Musical Instrument
Director: Farhad Mokhtari
Country/City: Tehran
Time: 20’

Category: Documentary
Format: DV Cam
Screenplay: Farhad Mokhtari
Cinematographer: Farhad Mokhtari
Editor: Farhad Mokhtari
Sound: Farhad Mokhtari
Score: Farhad Mokhtari
Producer: Experimental and Documentary Film Development Center, and Addiction Prevention Education Center
Date of Production: 2003

Synopsis: Addict prisoners mothers, and their innocent children who live with them.

Soushivas

Title: Soushivas
Director: Hassan Naghashi
Country/City: Tehran
Time: 19’

Category:Documentary/Fiction
Format: DV Cam
Screenplay: Hassan Naghashi
Cinematographer: Hassan Naghashi
Editor: Hassan Naghashi
Sound: Mohammad Shabanpour, Masoud Soflaii
Score:
Producer: IYCS
Date of Production: 2003

Synopsis: According to an ancient belief in desert regions, when a well dries up people choose one of their girls, and make her marry with the well so that her power of love revive the well.

Women with no Shadows

Title: Women with no Shadows
Director: Mahnaz Mohammadi
Country/City: Tehran
Time: 22’

Category: Documentary/Fiction
Format: DV Cam
Screenplay: Mahnaz Mohammadi
Cinematographer: Bayram Fazli
Editor: Ebrahim Saiidi
Sound: Mohammad Shahverdi, Ebrahim Saiidi
Score: Nader Mozaffariafshar
Producer: Mahnaz Mohammadi, Amir Samavati
Date of Production: 2003

Synopsis: Homeless and deserted women live here together in a rest place. Every Wednesday a man comes to console them. Each woman loves him in her way and asks him for love and tenderness.