The Selected Documentary Films for the National Competition Section B

 Cinema Winston

Title: Cinema Winston
Director: Mohsen Ostadali-Makhmalbaf
Country/City: Iran/Tehran
Time: 14’
Category: Documentary
Format: S.VHS
Screenplay: Mohsen Ostadali-Makhmalbaf
Cinematographer: Alireza Azarioun, Abbas Sanifar
Editor: Mohammad Jafari
Sound: Mohsen Ostadali-Makhmalbaf, Mohammad Jafari, Hamidreza Azarioun
Score: Mohsen Ostadali-Makhmalbaf, Mohammad Jafari
Producer: Ali Kheiri
Date of Production: 2003

Synopsis: Asadollah Yekta, an actor of old times, is selling cigarettes at present.

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 Now, Do I Stay or Do I Go?

Title: Now, Do I Stay or Do I Go?
Director: Ardeshir Pournemat
Country/City: Iran/Anzali

Time: 20’
Category: Documentary
Format: S.VHS
Screenplay: Ardeshir Pournemat
Cinematographer: Kourosh Mehdizadeh
Editor: Kourosh Mehdizadeh
Sound:
Score: Zamani
Producer: IYCS (Anzali)
Date of Production: 2003

Synopsis: Works and life of Anzali painter Mrs. Shahin Barvar who is invalid.

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 Our Story Was True

Title: Our Story Was True
Director: Mohammad Eslami
Country/City: Iran/Kerman

Time: 24’ 30”
Category: Documentary
Format: S.VHS
Screenplay: Mohammad Eslami
Cinematographer: Mohammad Eslami
Editor: Mohammad Eslami
Sound:
Score: Mohammad Eslami
Producer: Mohammad Eslami
Date of Production: 2003

Synopsis: Tayebeh and her two sons are addict. One helps them to rehabilitate.

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 Scent of  Eid

Title:Scent of Eid
Director: Reza Abouzar
Country/City: Iran/Ghom

Time: 10’
Category:Documentary
Format: S.VHS
Screenplay: Reza Abouzar
Cinematographer: Mostafa Khalilirad
Editor: Mehdi Abdi
Sound: Mehdi Abdi
Score:
Producer: IYCS (Ghom)
Date of Production: 2002

Synopsis: About mental patients and their lives.

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 The Long Poem of Ashoura

Title: The Long Poem of Ashoura
Director: Abolfazl Tabasi
Country/City: Iran/Sabzehvar

Time: 16’
Category: Documentary
Format: S.VHS
Screenplay: Abolfazl Tabasi
Cinematographer: Abolfazl Tabasi, Amiripour
Editor: Abolfazl Tabasi, Saiid Khodaii
Sound: Hossein Tabasi, Saiid Khodaii
Score: Abolfazl Tabasi
Producer: IYCS (Sabzehvar)
Date of Production: 2003

Synopsis: Moharam events from 2d to 10th day, as presented by Ta’zieh.

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 The Night her Wishes Were Granted

Title: The Night her Wishes Were Granted
Director: Marzieh Kazemi
Country/City: Iran/Rafsanjan
Time: 17’

Category: Documentary
Format: S.VHS
Screenplay: Marzieh Kazemi
Cinematographer: Hossein Pourmohammadi
Editor: Hossein Mohammadhosseini
Sound:
Score:
Producer: IYCS (Rafsanjan)
Date of Production: 2002

Synopsis: Kelid-Zani rituals which is traditionally celebrated at every 27th Ramadan in Rafsanjan, and a woman who goes to Kelid-Zani at this night to demand her wishes be granted.

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 We Are the Ones who Spin the Earth

Title: We Are the Ones who Spin the Earth
Director: Talayeh Atlasi
Country/City: Iran/Tehran

Time: 14’
Category: Documentary
Format: S.VHS
Screenplay: Talayeh Atlasi
Cinematographer: Shahram Mirabaghdam
Editor: Farrokh Azhdari
Sound: Shahram Mirabaghdam, Farrokh Azhdari
Score: Farrokh Azhdari
Producer: IYCS (Tehran)
Date of Production: 2002

Synopsis: Human life from birth to death, with all its diversity, difficulties, and pleasure and sorrows.

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 Where Atena Can See

Title: Where Atena Can See
Director: Hassanpasha Gholipour
Country/City: Iran/Ghom
Time: 25’
Category: Documentary
Format: S.VHS
Screenplay:
Cinematographer: Hassanpasha Gholipour
Editor: Mirvali Hosseini
Sound:
Score:
Producer: Hassanpasha Gholipour
Date of Production: 2003

Synopsis: Atena, a 1-year-old girl suffering a genetic illness and resorting to many hospitals uselessly, cures on Ashoura Night among a crowd of pilgrims.

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 Elegy for the Last Upright Trees

Title: Elegy for the Last Upright Trees
Director: Omid Abdollahi
Country/City: Iran/Shiraz
Time: 4’ 30”
Category: Documentary
Format: VHS
Screenplay: Omid Abdollahi
Cinematographer: Omid Abdollahi
Editor: Omid Abdollahi
Sound: Omid Abdollahi
Score: Elham Abdollahi
Producer: Fars Province Culture and Guidance Department
Date of Production: 2002

Synopsis: Men destroy the last survived trees.

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 Lores Actor

Title: Lores Actor
Director: Abbas Amini
Country/City: Iran/Ahvaz
Time: 12’
Category: Documentary
Format: VHS
Screenplay:
Cinematographer: Abbas Amini
Editor: Abbas Amini, Fereidoun Ghaedi
Sound:
Score: Ali Baroumand
Producer: IYCS (Ahvaz), Behnam-Film Advertisement Center
Date of Production: 2003

Synopsis: About the performance of a snake in a film.

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 Omr Color

Title: Omr Color
Director: Mohammadmehdi Moshfegh
Country/City: Iran/Shiraz
Time: 1’
Category: Documentary
Format: VHS
Screenplay: Mohammadmehdi Moshfegh
Cinematographer: Kourosh Ayat
Editor: Mehdi Ahmadi
Sound: Mehdi Ahmadi
Score:
Producer: IYCS (Shiraz)
Date of Production: 2002

Synopsis: Omr, a village woman, on carpet loom.

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 Spoiled Wishes

Title: Spoiled Wishes
Director: Ali Kamyab
Country/City: Iran/Yasouj

Time: 13’ 33”
Category: Documentary
Format: VHS
Screenplay: Ali Kamyab
Cinematographer: Ali Kamyab
Editor: Ali Kamyab
Sound: Ali Kamyab
Score: Saiid Eslaminezhad
Producer: IYCS (Yasouj)
Date of Production: 2003

Synopsis: About the life of a film student of 2000-2001 semester who is no longer able to continue making films because of an accident.

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 Sultry Boys

Title: Sultry Boys
Director: Mousa Kamali-Chahouii
Country/City: Iran/Bandar-Abbas
Time: 15’

Category: documentary
Format: VHS
Screenplay: Mousa Kamali-Chahouii
Cinematographer: Ali Askari
Editor: Kourosh Garmsari
Sound: Mousa Kamali-Chahouii
Score: Mousa Kamali-Chahouii
Producer: IYCS (Bandar-Abbas)
Date of Production: 2002

Synopsis: A little boy aids his grandpa to launch the fishing boat. The old grandpa oars into the sea for fishing and the boy first tries to fish and then plays with other children, until the old man returns.

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 Rangineh

Title: Rangineh
Director: Saiid Hemmativand
Country/City: Iran/Khorramabad

Time: 17’
Category:Documentary/Fiction
Format: S.VHS
Screenplay: Saiid Hemmativand
Cinematographer: Mohsen Azadi
Editor: Saiid Hemmativand
Sound:
Score:
Producer: IYCS (Khorramabad)
Date of Production: 2003

Synopsis: A family who live by dying carpet threads has a blind son who carries every day the dyed threads to carpet workshop. The boy has some emotional relation with one of the carpet maker girls, but…

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