Festival of Festivals

  Title of the film Director Format Category  Duration
1 ...ban Shadi Haddadpour 8 mm Animation
2 Caravan Mohsen Amiryousefi DV Documentary 15’
3 Cinema Dog Shahed Ahmadlou Beta Cam Fiction 14’
4 Escape Mohammadreza Serkanian 16 mm Fiction 17’
5 If the Walls Could Talk Nader Sheikholeslami S.VHS Fiction
6 In His History Book Mehrdad Oskouii 8 mm Fiction 10’
7 Sataskhaneh (Barbershop) Bahman Ghobadi 8 mm Fiction 12’ 30”
8 The key Esmaiil Arab 8 mm Animation
9 The Little Hunter Mohammad Arab, Tahereh Shemirani, Hossein Ahmadi 8 mm Fiction
10 The Shadow of Yesterday Saiid Shahosseini 8 mm Fiction 15’
11 The White Shore Hossein Nouri-Delavar 8 mm Documentary
12 The Wish Saed Nikzat 8 mm Fiction 34’
13 There is a Need for a Cure Hossein Izadi-Shahri Video Fiction 10’
14 Yandabedomaleh Behzad Rasoulzadeh S.VHS Fiction 9’ 30”

 

 …ban

Title: …ban
Director: Shadi Haddadpour
Country/City: Tabriz
Time: 2’
Category: Animation
Format: 8 mm
Screenplay: Vahid fatemi
Cinematographer: Shadi Haddadpour
Editor: Shadi Haddadpour, Ghorbanali Taherfar
Sound: Akbar Nikmard
Score: Aliashraf Eftekhari
Producer: IYCS (Tabriz)
Date of Production: 1995

Synopsis: There is an inauguration ceremony. But the pickaxe sticks in the ground and cannot be drawn out. At last it remains there as a symbolic statue.

 

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 Caravan

Title: Caravan
Director: Mohsen Amiryousefi
Country/City: Iran/Ghazvin
Time: 15’

Category: Documentary
Format: DV
Screenplay: Mohsen Amiryousefi
Cinematographer: Bayram Fazli
Editor: Mohsen Amiryousefi
Sound: Behrouz Shahamat
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Producer: Experimental and Documentary Cinema Development Center
Date of Production: 2002

Synopsis: Every year a caravan is made in Sadeh (Isfahan), in memory of Imam Hossein caravan.

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 Cinema Dog

Title: Cinema Dog
Director: Shahed Ahmadlou
Country/City: Tehran
Time: 14’
Category: Fiction
Format: Beta Cam
Screenplay: Shahed Ahmadlou
Cinematographer: Alireza Zarrindast
Editor: Hossein Ghazanfari
Sound: Karim Kashani, Behrouz Abedini
Score: Nasser Cheshmazar
Producer: IYCS
Date of Production: 2000

Synopsis: For a shot, a filmmaking group needs a dog bark, but the dog doesn’t bark in front of the camera. So they must seek for a solution.

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 Escape

Title: Escape
Director: Mohammadreza Serkanian
Country/City: Iran/Hamedan
Time: 17’
Category: Fiction
Format: 16 mm
Screenplay:
Cinematographer: Abdollah Sarihi
Editor: Gorgin Gregorians
Sound: Ahmad Kalantari, Mohammadali Abiri
Score:
Producer: Hamedan Islamic Culture and Guidance Department
Date of Production:

Synopsis: A student boy realizes that they are going to be vaccinated at school. He and his friend decide to escape, so they hide in the school cellar. Then they try to escape among the crowd of students rushing out, but a teacher notices one of them and leads him to vaccination room, and the other manages to escape…

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 If the Walls Could Talk

Title: If the Walls Could Talk
Director: Nader Sheikholeslami
Country/City: Talesh
Time: 6’
Category: Fiction
Format: S.VHS
Screenplay: Nader Sheikholeslami
Cinematographer: Nader Sheikholeslami
Editor: Nader Sheikholeslami
Sound: Nader Sheikholeslami
Score: Khorow Soleimani
Producer: IYCS (Talesh)
Date of Production: 2001

Synopsis: About prison and prisoners.

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 In His History Book

Title: In His History Book
Director: Mehrdad Oskouii
Country/City: Najafabad
Time: 10’
Category: Fiction
Format: 8 mm
Screenplay: Mehrdad Oskouii
Cinematographer: Alimohammad Ghassemi
Editor: Mehdi Abdollahi
Sound: Hamid Amani
Score:
Producer: IYCS (Najafabad)
Date of Production: 1989

Synopsis: A boy gets acquainted with a rose grown in an area enclosed by barbed wires. The rose fills his mind. In a stormy night the rose leaves fall, and the next morning the boy gathers them to put them in between the pages of his history book.

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 Sataskhaneh (Barbershop)

Title: Sataskhaneh (Barbershop)
Director: Bahman Ghobadi
Country/City: Sanandaj

Time: 12’ 30”
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Screenplay: Bahman Ghobadi
Cinematographer: Bakhtiar Lahimi
Editor: Bahman Ghobadi
Sound:
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Producer: IYCS (Sanandaj)
Date of Production: 1995

Synopsis: A boy must have his hairs cut in order to be permitted to attend school. He goes to many barbershops but no one understands his situation. At last, he goes to a peddler-barber. He suffers pain while the man crops his hair, but instead the school principal appraises him.

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 The key

Title: The key
Director: Esmaiil Arab
Country/City: Zahedan

Time: 1’
Category: Animation
Format: 8 mm
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Producer: IYCS (Zahedan)
Date of Production:

Synopsis: A key opens a chest, in which there are lot of other keys.

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 The Little Hunter

Title: The Little Hunter
Director: Mohammad Arab, Tahereh Shemirani, Hossein Ahmadi
Country/City: Gorgan
Time: 9’
Category: Fiction
Format: 8 mm
Screenplay: Mohammad Arab, Tahereh Shemirani, Hossein Ahmadi
Cinematographer: Mohammad Arab, Tahereh Shemirani, Hossein Ahmadi
Editor: Mohammad Arab, Tahereh Shemirani, Hossein Ahmadi
Sound:
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Producer: IYCS (Ghazvin)
Date of Production: 1985

Synopsis: A little boy captures a sparrow after many hours lurking. He beheads the bird and shows the body to other birds, but soon regrets and tries to glue the head with the bandage his mother has applied on the wound of his hand, and set it free.

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 The Shadow of Yesterday

Title: The Shadow of Yesterday
Director: Saiid Shahosseini
Country/City: Arak
Time: 15’
Category: Fiction
Format: 8 mm
Screenplay: Saiid Shahosseini
Cinematographer: Abolfazl Horri
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Producer: IYCS (Arak)
Date of Production: 1991

Synopsis: An old woman goes to mosque to light a candle for her vow. But the guardian of the mosque prevents her and advises to light an electrical bulb instead. The woman refuses and goes to an old Saghakhaneh in a quiet alley to do her vow.

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 The White Shore

Title: The White
Shore
Director: Hossein Nouri-Delavar
Country/City:
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Category: Documentary
Format: 8 mm
Screenplay: Hossein Nouri
Cinematographer: Mehdi Foroughi
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Producer: Zahedan
Date of Production: 1993

Synopsis: About the process of preparing salt.

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 The Wish

Title: The Wish
Director: Saed Nikzat
Country/City: Mashad
Time: 34’
Category: Fictin
Format: 8 mm
Screenplay: Katayoun Azarli
Cinematographer: Saed Nikzat
Editor: Saed Nikzat
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Producer: IYCS (Mashad)
Date of Production:

Synopsis: A little girl who has no father and her mother is paralyzed and bedridden, is tempted to steel her friend’s book. She later regrets her act. Her teacher comes to her help and is faced with the girl’s problems.

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 There is a Need for a Cure

Title: There is a Need for a Cure
Director: Hossein Izadi-Shahri
Country/City: Gonabad
Time: 10’
Category: Fiction
Format: Video
Screenplay: Hossein Izadi-Shahri
Cinematographer: Mohammad Baraderan
Editor: Arash Arefi
Sound: Reza Izadi
Score:
Producer: IYCS (Gonabad)
Date of Production: 1996

Synopsis: An old shepherd rubs an ointment on the cracks of his heels when he is resting. His grandson who watches takes the medicine after the shepherd is asleep, to rub it at the earth’s cracks and cure them.

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 Yandabedomaleh

Title
: Yandabedomaleh
Director: Behzad Rasoulzadeh

Country/City: Talesh
Time: 9’ 30”
Category: Fiction
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Producer: IYCS (Talesh)
Date of Production: 1997

Synopsis: The relatives of a dying old man go to his bed to read him Koran. The old man realizes a friend among them and remembers his childhood and then dies. But life continues.

 

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