Iranian International Shortfilm Festival ( IYCS)

A tribute to a Filmmaker
(Amir Shahab Razavian)

	Title of the film	Format	Category	Duration
1	Power	8 mm	Fiction	2’
2	Oil and War	8 mm	Animation	5’
3	That Rainy Day	8 mm	Documentary	6’
4	The Child and The Fall	8 mm	Fiction	10’
5	Repitition	8 mm	Fiction	10’
6	A Shadow in Silence	16 mm	Documentary /Fiction	10’
7	Mohreh-Rizan	16 mm	Documentary	17’
8	The Last Evening	16 mm	Fiction	13’
9	Massa (Early Night)	16 mm	Animation	4’
10	Revelations about Direction	16 mm	Animation / Puppet show	3’
11	The Songs of the Grey Man	35 mm	Documentary / Fiction	35’
12	A Song for Hamburg	Beta Cam	Documentary	3’
13	The Neighbors	Beta Cam	Documentary	3’
14	A Thirsty Man	Beta Cam	Documentary	3’
15	Garden Vision	DV Cam	Documentary	40’
16	The Strange Story of the Lonely Man	DV Cam	Documentary	40’
17	God and Technology	DV Cam	Documentary	3’
18	Tehran, at 7 a.m.	35 mm	Documentary	85’

Power

Title: Power
Director: Amirshahab Razavian

Country/City: Iran/Hamedan
Time: 2’
Category: Fiction
Format: 8 mm
Screenplay:
Cinematographer: Amirshahab Razavian
Editor:
Sound:
Score:
Producer: Cinema Azad (Hamedan)
Date of Production: 1980

Synopsis: A snowy winter day, some children have gathered around a fire. One of them finds a tin container to sit on. A fight starts for it, and eventually the strongest boy wins.

Oil and War

Title: Oil and War
Director: Amirshahab Razavian
Country/City: Iran/Hamedan

Time: 5’
Category: Animation
Format: 8 mm
Screenplay:
Cinematographer: Amirshahab Razavian
Editor:
Sound:
Score:
Producer: Cinema Azad (Hamedan)
Date of Production: 1981

Synopsis: A B&W unfinished animation experiment. The workers carry the oil barrels to the ship. The main theme is the oil and exploitation.

That Rainy Day

Title: That Rainy Day
Director: Amirshahab Razavian
Country/City: Iran/Hamedan

Time: 6’
Category: Documentary
Format: 8 mm
Screenplay: Amirshahab Razavian
Cinematographer: Amirshahab Razavian
Editor:
Sound: Mohammadreza Serkanian
Score: Selections from “Zemphyr Flute”
Producer: Youth Cinema Society (Hamedan)
Date of Production: 1984

Synopsis: A mid spring day in 1984. Children come back home from school, and the camera follows them casually.

The Child and The Fall

Title: The Child and The Fall
Director: Amirshahab Razavian
Country/City: Iran/Hamedan
Time: 10’
Category: Fiction

Format: 8 mm
Screenplay: Amirshahab Razavian (based on a poem from Shahryar)
Cinematographer: Aliakbar Beykzadeh
Editor: Mohammadreza Serkanian
Sound: Behrouz Shahamat
Score: Selections from “Bidad”, a work of Parviz Meshkatian
Producer: Youth Cinema Society (Hamedan)
Date of Production: 1984

Synopsis: An adaptation from the poem “The Child and The Fall” by Shahryar, in which a child trying for his dying father’s life throws the autumn leaves on the tree in their courtyard.

Repitition

Title: Repitition
Director: Amirshahab Razavian
Country/City: Iran/Hamedan
Time: 10’

Category: fiction
Format: 8 mm
Screenplay: Amirshahab Razavian
Cinematographer: Mohammadreza Serkanian
Editor: Mohammadreza Serkanian
Sound: Behrouz Shahamat
Score: Selections from “Homayoun”, a santour piece from Ostad Payvar.
Producer: Youth Cinema Society (Hamedan)
Date of Production: 1987

Synopsis: A 20 Rial coin causes a problem for a young boy, forcing him to let it go, and at last an old woman finds the coin.

A Shadow in Silence

Title: A Shadow in Silence
Director: Amirshahab Razavian
Country/City:

Time: 10’
Category: Documentary/Fiction
Format: 16 mm
Screenplay: Amirshahab Razavian
Cinematographer: Mohammadreza Serkanian
Editor: Mohammadreza Serkanian
Sound: Mohammadreza Nikbin
Score: Mirkamaleddin Madani
Producer: Culture and Guidance Department (Hamedan)
Date of Production: 1988

Synopsis: A film about Gholamhossein Shaygan, the oldest Hamedani photographer, while working as a young man and then in mid life, and at last as an old man earning his livelihood by a photocopy machine.

Mohreh-Rizan

Title: Mohreh-Rizan
Director: Amirshahab Razavian
Country/City: Iran/Tehran
Time: 17’

Category: Documentary
Format: 16 mm
Screenplay: Amirshahab Razavian
Cinematographer: Mehrdad Zahedian
Editor: Mohammadreza Serkanian
Sound:
Score: Mirkamaleddin Madani
Producer: Experimental and Documentary Cinema Development Center
Date of Production: 1989

Synopsis: A film about “Mohreh-Rizan”, a traditional ceremony in Hamedan during “Yalda Night”.

The Last Evening

Title: The Last Evening
Director: Amirshahab Razavian
Country/City: Iran/Tehran

Time: 13’
Category: Fiction
Format: 16 mm
Screenplay: Mohammadreza Serkanian
Cinematographer: Mohammadreza Serkanian
Editor: Amirshahab Razavian, Alireza Ahmadzadeh
Sound: Mohammad Mohammadieh
Score: Selections from “Nobang-e-Kohan” by H.Alizadeh
Producer: Hilaj Filming and Cinematic Research Company
Date of Production: 1991

Synopsis: A shepherd boy takes his sheep to pasture every day. His father sells one of the sheep for sacrifice ceremony. The boy tries hard to escape the animal, but fails and the next day he sees the skin of the sacrificed sheep.

Massa (Early Night)

Title: Massa (Early Night)
Director: Amirshahab Razavian
Country/City: Iran/Tehran

Time: 4’
Category: Animation
Format: 16 mm
Screenplay: Amirshahab Razavian
Cinematographer: Rosette Ghaderi
Editor:
Sound:
Score: Keyvan Jahanshahi
Producer:
Date of Production: 1994

Synopsis: A dandelion flies to a window. Behind the window sat a girl and her mother. The girl tries to touch the moon, but fails. The mother takes her to the courtyard, and the girl plays with the image of the moon in the pool.

Revelations about Direction

Title: Revelations about Direction
Director: Amirshahab Razavian

Country/City: Iran/Tehran
Time: 3’
Category: Animation/Puppet show
Format: 16 mm
Screenplay: Amirshahab Razavian
Cinematographer: Amirshahab Razavian, Rosette Ghaderi
Editor:
Sound:
Score: Keyvan Jahanshahi
Producer: Iranian Youth Cinema Society (IYCS)
Date of Production: 1997

Synopsis: A man follows direction signs. At the end, one sees him walking in a circle surrounded by direction signs.

The Songs of the Grey Man

Title: The Songs of the Grey Man
Director: Amirshahab Razavian
Country/City: Iran/Tehran
Time: 35’

Category: Documentary/Fiction
Format: 35 mm
Screenplay: Amirshahab Razavian
Cinematographer: Amin Jafari, Behrouz Soleimaninazir
Editor: Amirshahab Razavian, Rosette Ghaderi
Sound: Gholamreza Nematpour, Behnam Shahabi
Score:
Producer: IYCS
Date of Production: 1998

Synopsis: Mr. Mahiji, a lovable old man, facing the camera, tells about his acquaintance with cinema. He is a lonely old man whose job is dredging subterranean canals. Every day through one of these canals he goes to the house of a beloved old lady, and there he sings for her canary, and then comes back home.

A Song for Hamburg

Title: A Song for Hamburg
Director: Amirshahab Razavian
Country/City: Iran/Tehran

Time: 3’
Category: Documentary
Format: Beta Cam
Screenplay:
Cinematographer: Rosette Ghaderi
Editor: Amirshahab Razavian
Sound:
Score:
Producer: Hilaj Filming and Cinematic Research Company
Date of Production: 1999

Synopsis: 5 months after Hamburg Film Festival, and exposition of his film, Mr. Mahiji, the actor of the “The Songs of the Grey Man”, tells us his idea about Germany and Hitler, and sings a song for Hamburg.

The Neighbors

Title: The Neighbors
Director: Amirshahab Razavian
Country/City: Iran/Tehran

Time: 3’
Category: Documentary
Format: Beta Cam
Screenplay:
Cinematographer:
Editor: Majid Barzegar
Sound:
Score:
Producer: Hilaj Filming and Cinematic Research Company
Date of Production: 2001

Synopsis: Before public showing of the film in Khorramabad, Mr. Mahiji, the actor of the “The Songs of the Grey Man”, goes to his neighbors and invites them to see the film.

A Thirsty Man

Title: A Thirsty Man
Director: Amirshahab Razavian
Country/City: Iran/Tehran

Time: 3’
Category: Documentary
Format: Beta Cam
Screenplay:
Cinematographer: Rosette Ghaderi
Editor: Fariba Razavian
Sound:
Score:
Producer: Hilaj Filming and Cinematic Research Company
Date of Production: 2002

Synopsis: The old man, Mr. Mahiji, feels thirsty; he is thirsty for human relations.

Garden Vision

Title: Garden Vision
Director: Amirshahab Razavian

Country/City: Iran/Tehran
Time: 40’
Category: Documantary
Format: DV Cam
Screenplay:
Cinematographer: Amin Jafari, Rosette Ghaderi
Editor: Amirshahab Razavian
Sound:
Score:
Producer: Hilaj Filming and Cinematic Research Company
Date of Production: 2003

Synopsis: A documentary about Mr. Ghassem Rastegar, known as Dada-Ghassem, a 93 year old man who lived alone for more than 50 years in an orchard in the suburbs of Hamedan. He was illiterate, but had a wonderful memory and knew by heart many poems, and had a unique look at the world.

The Strange Story of the Lonely Man

Title: The Strange Story of the Lonely Man
Director: Amirshahab Razavian
Country/City: Iran/Tehran

Time: 40’
Category: Documentary
Format: DV Cam
Screenplay:
Cinematographer: Amin Jafari, Rosette Ghaderi
Editor: Amirshahab Razavian
Sound:
Score:
Producer: Hilaj Filming and Cinematic Research Company
Date of Production: 2002

Synopsis: A documentary about Hassan Gholami-Khorasani, a 90 year old man with a unique character, known as Mr.Mahiji, who had performed some short films. He had lived alone for many years in Khorramabad, and was very sociable and kind with his neighbors. In this film he relates his life.

God and Technology

Title: God and Technology
Director: Amirshahab Razavian
Country/City: Iran/Tehran

Time: 3’
Category: Documentary
Format: DV Cam
Screenplay:
Cinematographer: Rosette Ghaderi:
Editor: Saiid Razavian
Sound:
Score:
Producer: Hilaj Filming and Cinematic Research Company
Date of Production: 2003

Synopsis: Mr.Mahiji tells about the relations between man and God, and man and technology, and sings a song for the train trasporting him.

Tehran, at 7 a.m.

Title: Tehran, at 7 a.m.
Director: Amirshahab Razavian
Country/City: Iran/Tehran

Time: 85’
Category:
Format: 35 mm
Screenplay: Majid Eslami, Farzad Pourkhoshbakht (on a sketch by Amirshahab Razavian)
Cinematographer: Morteza Poursamadi
Editor: Parviz Shahbazi
Sound: Karim Kashani, Parviz Abnar
Score:
Producer: Hilaj Filming and Cinematic Research Company
Date of Production: 2002

Synopsis: (Cast: Behnaz Jafari, Mehran Rajabi, Nazanin Farahani, Hassan Moazeni, Javad Khademhosseini, Reza Khamseh). The story begins with all 7 characters stopping behind the traffic light, and nobody knowing the others. We accompany each of them separately for 24 hours, and the next morning at 7 a.m. they are all stopping there again.