Tribute to the Short Films
of Ghazvin Province

  Title of the film Director Format Category  Duration
1 A Drop of the Sea Morteza Motevalli, Hassan Lotfi 8 mm Documentary  20’
2 A Man in Cage Hassan Lotfi 8 mm Fiction 10’
3 A Man’s Fishing Masoud Yazdanmehr 16 mm Animation 5’
4 Brick Kiln Nasser Jahantigh 8 mm Documentary  18’
5 Expecting Morteza Motevalli 8 mm Fiction 18’
6 Gypsies Parivash Nazarieh 8 mm Documentary 25’
7 Life Beyond Ado Abolfazl Soroushmehr Beta Cam Documentary 12’
8 Once There Was a Horse Hamidreza Sabokdast 16 mm Fiction 13’
9 The Bread Jafar Nassiri-Shahraki 8 mm Fiction 20’
10 The Little Soldier Zohreh Motevalli 8 mm Fiction 14’
11 The Ode of Life Maryam Khoaini 16 mm Animation 5’
12 The Steps Yazdanmehr, Ghassem Mahmoudi 8 mm Animation 5’
13 Wandering Dante Mohsen Aghalou Beta Cam Fiction 12’

 

 A Drop of the Sea

Title: A Drop of the Sea
Director: Morteza Motevalli, Hassan Lotfi
Country/City: Iran/Ghazvin
Time: 20’
Category: Documentary
Format: 8 mm
Screenplay: Morteza Motevalli, Hassan Lotfi
Cinematographer: Ali Rahmani, Majid Nourollahpour, Jafar Nassirishahraki
Editor: Morteza Motevalli, Hassan Lotfi
Sound: Ali Rahmani
Score: Selection
Producer: IYCS (Ghazvin)
Date of Production: 1990

Synopsis: A film about Ghazvin-Roudbar earthquake of June 1990. Some bitter points of this calamity are revealed by the people who suffered it.

 

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 A Man in Cage

Title: A Man in Cage
Director: Hassan Lotfi
Country/City: Iran/Ghazvin

Time: 10’
Category: Fiction
Format: 8 mm
Screenplay: Hassan Lotfi
Cinematographer: Majid Nourollahpour
Editor: Hassan Lotfi
Sound: Ali Rahmani
Score: Selection
Producer: IYCS (Ghazvin)
Date of Production: 1988

Synopsis: A man living by his illusions.

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 A Man’s Fishing

Title: A Man’s Fishing
Director: Masoud Yazdanmehr
Country/City: Iran/Ghazvin

Time: 5’
Category: Animation
Format: 16 mm
Screenplay: Ghassem Mahmoudi
Cinematographer: Mehdi Vosoughnia
Editor: Mohammadreza Sadeghipour
Sound:
Score: Selection
Producer: IYCS (Ghazvin)
Date of Production:

Synopsis: A man is fishing on an island. His fishing becomes larger and larger until he notices that he is sitting on a whale.

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 Brick Kiln

Title: Brick Kiln
Director: Nasser Jahantigh
Country/City: Iran/Ghazvin

Time: 18’
Category: Documentary
Format: 8 mm
Screenplay: Nasser Jahantigh
Cinematographer: Morteza Motevalli, Ali Rahmani
Editor: Morteza Motevalli
Sound: Ali Rahmani
Score: Selection
Producer: IYCS (Ghazvin)
Date of Production:

Synopsis: About the life of men who work in brick kilns in a very bad and inhuman conditions.

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 Expecting

Title: Expecting
Director: Morteza Motevalli
Country/City: Iran/Ghazvin

Time: 18’
Category: Fiction
Format: 8 mm
Screenplay: Morteza Motevalli
Cinematographer: Majid Nourollahpour, Ali Rahmani
Editor: Morteza Motevalli
Sound: Ali Rahmani
Score: Selection
Producer: IYCS (Ghazvin)
Date of Production: 1988

Synopsis: An old man who has lost his job, is forced to peddle for living. But the municipality agents ruin his plans for future. A boy…

 

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 Gypsies

Title: Gypsies
Director: Parivash Nazarieh
Country/City: Iran/Ghazvin

Time: 25’
Category: Documentary
Format: 8 mm
Screenplay: Parivash Nazarieh
Cinematographer: Zohreh Motevalli
Editor: Parivash Nazarieh, Zohreh Motevalli
Sound:
Score: Selection
Producer: IYCS (Ghazvin)
Date of Production: 1991

Synopsis: A glimpse at gypsies who live by beggary and fortunetelling in cities, and attitude of people towards them…

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 Life Beyond Ado

Title: Life Beyond Ado
Director: Abolfazl Soroushmehr
Country/City: Iran/Ghazvin
Time: 12’
Category: Documentary
Format: Beta Cam
Screenplay: Abolfazl Soroushmehr
Cinematographer: Mohammadreza Teymouri
Editor: Majid Asheghi
Sound: Abolfazl Soroushmehr
Score: Selection
Producer: IYCS (Ghazvin)
Date of Production: 2000

Synopsis: A cyclist goes around bazaar for selling chandeliers and so gets acquainted with others.

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 Once There Was a Horse

Title: Once There Was a Horse
Director: Hamidreza Sabokdast

Country/City: Iran/Ghazvin
Time: 13’
Category: Fiction
Format: 16 mm
Screenplay: Hamidreza Sabokdast
Cinematographer: Mohammadreza Teymouri
Editor: Mohammadreza Teymouri, Akbari
Sound: Mohammadreza Teymouri
Score: Selection
Producer: IYCS (Ghazvin)
Date of Production: 1999

Synopsis: A boy draws a horse on a partly ruined wall. He comes back there every day to play with the horse. One day he sees the bulldozers coming to destroy the wall.

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 The Bread

Title: The Bread
Director: Jafar Nassiri-Shahraki
Country/City: Iran/Ghazvin

Time: 20’
Category: Fiction
Format: 8 mm
Screenplay: Jafar Nassiri-Shahraki
Cinematographer: Mehdi Vosoughnia
Editor: Mohammadreza Sadeghipour
Sound: Mohammadreza Sadeghipour
Score: Selection
Producer: IYCS (Ghazvin)
Date of Production: 1991

Synopsis: In a villager family, the mother is ill and unable to bake bread. The son who takes the cattle to pasture is in trouble due to lack of bread…

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 The Little Soldier

Title: The Little Soldier
Director: Zohreh Motevalli
Country/City: Iran/Ghazvin

Time: 14’
Category: Fiction
Format: 8 mm
Screenplay: Zohreh Motevalli
Cinematographer: Zahra Darbahaninezhad
Editor: Morteza Motevalli
Sound: Ali Rahmani
Score: Selection
Producer: IYCS (Ghazvin)
Date of Production: 1992

Synopsis: A little boy fights with his dolls with a gun whose soldier brother has given him as a gift. His dolls which are the best friends of his loneliness are wounded and the boy…

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 The Ode of Life

Title: The Ode of Life
Director: Maryam Khoaini
Country/City: Iran/Ghazvin
Time: 5’
Category: Animation
Format: 16 mm
Screenplay: Maryam Khoaini
Cinematographer: Mohammadreza Teymouri
Editor: Mohammadreza Teymouri
Sound:
Score: Selection
Producer: IYCS (Ghazvin)
Date of Production: 2000

Synopsis: A fruitful tree and passers-by who break its branches for its fruits…

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 The Steps

Title: The Steps
Director: Masoud Yazdanmehr, Ghassem Mahmoudi
Country/City: Iran/Ghazvin

Time: 5’
Category: Animation
Format: 8 mm
Screenplay: Masoud Yazdanmehr
Cinematographer: Masoud Yazdanmehr
Editor: Masoud Yazdanmehr
Sound:
Score: Selection
Producer: IYCS (Ghazvin)
Date of Production:

Synopsis: A man climbs stairs. He sees men sleeping on every steps, and then…

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 Wandering Dante

Title: Wandering Dante
Director: Mohsen Aghalou
Country/City: Iran/Ghazvin
Time: 12’
Category: Fiction
Format: Beta Cam
Screenplay: Mohsen Aghalou
Cinematographer: Mohammadreza Teymouri
Editor: Aghalor, Majid Asheghi
Sound: Majid Asheghi
Score: election
Producer: IYCS (Ghazvin)
Date of Production: 2002

Synopsis: A 3 episode film, that looks at stages of life: Inferno, Limbo, and Paradise.

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