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Copenhagen Festival’s Best Foreign Short Film award goes to Iranian documentary “Daughter”

mahla — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 21:18:08 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) –Iranian documentary film “Daughter” (also known as Destiny) directed by Yaser Talebi won the Best Foreign Short Film award from the Copenhagen Short Film Festival in Denmark.

In a small conservative town in Iran a vulnerable man has lost his wife. His daughter, an intelligent 18-year-old, would love to continue her education. They live together and get on very well, but their relationship is not the easiest. She is expected to be obedient, take care of the aging father and give up her university plans in exchange for a quick marriage, while a new wife is being sought for him. Sarah is not very fond of the idea as no one can replace her late mom.

The Copenhagen Short Film Festival is the only short films festival in Copenhagen, focusing exclusively on short films of all genres and formats.

Copenhagen Short Film Festival was created in 2012, and had its first edition in 2013 at Husets Biograf (an art house cinema in Copenhagen).

Yaser Talebi has already managed to win the Silver Dragon for the director of the best documentary of the 63st Krakow Film Festival in Poland.

It had also won the Best Foreign Film Award at the 9th Peloponnese International Documentary Festival in Greece.

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Iranian film ‘Legrand’ goes to Jordanian festival

reporter 1222 — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 11:13:02 +0000

TEHRAN (iran news),Directed by Ali Shah-Mohammadi, the short film narrates the story of an Iranian university student who is studying filmmaking in Brussels. Looking at the Brussels’ tramway, the student remembers her childhood memories.”Jordanian festival”

The short film has been produced in Tehran and Brussels and with Iranian and Belgian cast and crew.

The Karama Festival hosts a wide range of works in different genres from around the world.

The 2020 edition of the festival will be held on December 10-17

When talking about Iranian cinema and their films, names like Ashghar Farhadi, Abbas Kiarostami, Jafar Panahi and a lot more comes to mind. There is no doubt that Iranian feature films have been a big success but Iranian short films has been even more successful. There has been over 2,000 selected short films in film festivals in the past year alone. So it’s easy to say the short film community in Iran is one of the best in the world. So let’s take a look at the most successful Iranian short films in the past years.

Gaze (Negah)

Winner of Grand Jury Award at the AFI Fest, Negah is a great example of the high quality of Iranian short films in the recent years. Farnoosh Samadi directs and co-writes alongside Ali Asgari (do you remember The Silence?) a short film about a woman that while coming back from work late and witnessing a young man stealing in the bus. Gaze has been selected in over 90 film festivals around the world and is qualified for Academy Awards but we should wait and see if it’s going to get nominated this year.

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‘The Souvenir’ Short Film Wins in Russia

reporter 1222 — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 06:28:43 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian short film ‘The Souvenir’ received an honorary diploma at the 12th International Disability Film Festival in Russia.

Directed by Bakhtiar Khalili, the film opens a window into rural life in the Iranian province of Kurdestan, ifilmtv.com reported.

It narrates the story of a little boy in a remote village in Kurdestan who is trying to find a way to cure his mother’s headache.

While searching for a solution, he is surprised by some unexpected events.

Khalili’s short film has participated in a number of international festivals, including the 10th Walthamstow International Film Festival in the UK, as well as the 6th Kolibri festival (International Festival of Audiovisual Production for Children and Adolescence) in Russia.

The festival aims to provide a platform to enhance the adaptation of children with disabilities into the public.

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‘The Cycling Wind’ Represents Iran in Glasgow Film Festival

reporter 1222 — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 05:24:41 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian short animated film, ‘The Cycling Wind,’ directed by Nazanin Sobhan-Sarbandi, is taking part in the Glasgow Film Festival 2020 in Scotland.

The film will be showcased at the ‘Family Shorts,’ one of the festival’s screening categories.

The six-minute animation is about a young wind that comes into possession of a bike, which helps the wind blow even faster without expending much energy and to truly enjoy its time. The freedom and strength that the bike gives the wind allow it to embark on new adventures.

The Scottish festival kicked off on August 17 in Glasgow and will run through August 23, ifilm wrote.

‘The Cycling Wind’ had previously taken part in the ninth edition of Tumbleweeds Film Festival for Kids in the US, the 23rd Animac, the International Animation Film Festival of Catalonia, in northeastern Spain, the ninth Annual Bike Short Film Festival in the US, and 34th Clermont-Ferrand film market in France and the 29th International Animated Film Festival Les Nuits Magiques in France.

Glasgow is one of the friendliest film festivals on the planet with a wide-ranging program that celebrates every corner of world cinema and provides a fantastic showcase for the best of Scottish film. It is one of the leading film festivals in the UK and run by Glasgow Film, a charity which also runs Glasgow Film Theatre. The festival is made possible by support from Screen Scotland, the BFI (award funds from the National Lottery), Glasgow Life, and EventScotland, part of VisitScotland’s Events Directorate.

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Leipzig festival; Iranian short films won Golden dove

reporter 1222 — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 10:05:04 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Two Iranian short films won awards at the 62nd International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, known as DOK Leipzig, in Germany.

The short animated piece, ‘Am I a Wolf?’, by Amir-Houshang Moein, won the Golden Dove for best-animated film, while the short documentary, ‘Asho,’ directed by Ja’far Najafi, received an honorable mention at the event.

‘Am I a Wolf?’ depicts a number of students who are performing a play called ‘The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats.’ The child who plays the wolf knows he will be defeated and feels lonely and irritated. He takes his role too seriously. There is a bit of chaos. In the end, the presence of other children and his friends next to him take him out of this gloomy atmosphere.

‘Asho’ is about a shepherd boy who is obsessed with Hollywood movies and wants to become an actor.

DOK Leipzig is one of the leading festivals for documentary and animated films, built on more than 60 years of history and tradition. The festival is a celebration of films with the highest artistic and innovative approaches to storytelling, embodying values of peace, tolerance, human dignity and freedom of expression, according to the event’s website.

The 62nd edition of the Leipzig festival was held on October 28 through November 3.

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‘Better than Neil Armstrong’ goes to Lund Fantastic filmfest. in Sweden

reporter 1222 — Wed, 18 Sep 2019 06:30:29 +0000

Written and directed by Alireza Ghasemi, ‘Better than Neil Armstrong’ is the story of four kids who start their journey to the moon with the mission of finding a mysterious place called ‘The Redland’ but the gates of The Redland are being guarded by a mischievous snake.

The Lund International Fantastic Film Festival is a popular film festival in Lund in southern Sweden that mainly shows fantasy, science fiction or horror films.

Founded in 1995, the festival aims to help stretch the limits of the imagination, and to reinforce the intrinsic value of imagination in films, according to the event’s website.

The 25th edition of Lund International Fantastic Film Festival will take place between Sept. 27th and October 5th, 2019.

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‘It Rains for You’ goes to Florence Film Awards in Italy

reporter 1222 — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 09:30:47 +0000

“It Rains for You” will be enjoying its third international screening at Florence Film Awards in Italy this September.

“The yellow leaves do not fall because of autumn; you are supposed to pass this alley, so they want to carpet your path … Sparrows do not sing out of habit, they are training to sing to welcome you,” a synopsis for the short film reads.

The film has previously taken part in the first YVE International Film Festival in China.

Florence Film Awards is an IMDb qualifier, monthly international film festival in Florence. Each month, the juries will award the best films in various categories through private screenings.

A selection of short films will be screened every month in Florence at Scuola di Cinema Immagina (Immagina Film School).

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3rd Short Filmfest. ‘Mowj’ kicks off on Kish Island

reporter 1222 — Wed, 28 Aug 2019 06:51:52 +0000

Some 69 works, including 59 titles in the ‘Film’ section and 10 works in the ‘Script’ section are competing at the short film festival from August 27-29.

The Film section includes titles with tourism and travel themes, Sea Special Vision, and Kish Island Filmmakers.

Notable among the competing films are “Are You Volleyball?!”, “The Elephant Shadow”, “The Bitter Sea” and “AniMal”.

Presided over by Ebrahim Hesari, the Third Mowj (Wave) National Short Film Festival will wrap up on August 29.

The event is organized by the Kish Free Zone Organization.

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Reading Film Fest in US to screen 5 Iranian titles

reporter 1222 — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 13:30:32 +0000

This year, the Reading Film Fest in Pennsylvania, US, is featuring five films made by Iranian directors. The films are:

‘Are You Volleyball?!’ by Mohammad Bakhshi, competing in the ‘Immigration & Refugees Block’

A group of Arab-speaking asylum seekers arrive to an English spoken country border and can’t keep going. They conflict with border soldiers every day until a deaf-mute baby becomes a catalyst for better communication between two groups.

‘Elephantbird’ by Masoud Soheili competing in the ‘Immigration & Refugees Block’

A mini-bus is on a journey across the mountains to Kabul. Each person on the bus has a reason to take this journey. An old man is traveling to give a turkey to his grandchild, as his last wish before dying. However, the main road is blocked by insurgents. They decide to use an alternative road, which is not very secure, and there is still the possibility of getting caught by insurgents.

‘Cradle of Silence’ by Mostafa Mehraban competing in the ‘Gender Issues – Shorts Block’

Rasoul has to deliver a cradle to his martyr friend’s widow. With Rasoul returning from the southern warzone to the northern part of the country, his wife Laya plans on going back to the warzone with him. The cradle becomes an excuse for Rasoul to reject his wife’s request.

‘The Snail’ by Mohammad Torivarian competing in the ‘Gender Issues – Shorts Block’

Three young Iranian boys along with a smuggler are clandestinely smuggling across the Iran-Turkey border. The smuggler only passes males through the border. In the middle of the way, he suddenly realizes that one of the passengers is hermaphrodite.

‘Ako’ by Nabi Gholizadeh

Tehran’s Grand Bazaar. Every product has a story and every porter has a secret. Ako does not want anyone to know his secret.

The Reading Film Fest will be held on 31 October – 9 November 2019.

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‘Box Man’ receives 2 nominations at Hollywood Dreams Filmfest.

reporter 1222 — Sat, 10 Aug 2019 06:30:54 +0000

The Iranian short film ‘Box Man’, in its third international screening, was nominated for best foreign film and best supporting actor award at Hollywood Dreams Film Festival in the US.

The film had previously taken part at the 9th London Lift-Off Film Festival in the UK, and was nominated in three categories at the Action on Film MegaFest Festival in the US.

Written and directed by Manouchehr Teymourzadeh, ‘Box Man’ narrates the story of a middle-aged reporter who is making a film about a teenager who lives inside a box and refuses to come out despite his mother’s pleas. Meanwhile, the reporter gets closer to the world of the teenager and becomes enraptured by his life inside a box.

The Hollywood Dreams International Film Festival (HDIFF) and Writers Event is dedicated to the movement, the language and the power of Film, Video and the Written Word. Film is a powerful tool that crosses all boundaries and languages and connects people universally, says the event’s website.

HDIFF is the sister festival to the long running Action on Film MegaFest Festival in the United States.

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