News:
“Boomrang” in
the SLOW FOOD on film festival
The short film BOOMRANG, directed by Daryoush Gharibzadeh from
Bushehr, produced and distributed by IRANIAN YOUNG CINEMA
SOCIETY has been selected to be screened in the First Festival
of Slow Food on Film.
The festival will be held in Italy from May 7-11, 2008.
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First
International festival of food and film (Slow food on film)
The
first edition of the international festival of food and film
will be held in Bologna, Italy from 7-11 May 2008.
Slow
Food on Film aims at promoting a new critical awareness of food
culture through the screening of films, short films,
documentaries and TV series that focus on food-related issues
(drives, perversions, identity and emotional implications) in an
original way, as well as on the agricultural and food industry's
repercussion on society and the environment, and on gastronomic
memory as a common heritage to be safeguarded.
The following short films produced and distributed by Iranian
Young Cinema Society (IYCS) have been submitted for the
competition section of the festival:
- Boomrang/ Daryoush Gharibzadeh/ Booshehr branch
- Lake Uremia/ Reza Amnzadeh/ Oroumiyeh Branch
- Hunt after hunt/ Nader sheikholeslami/ Talesh branch
- Up to a white destination/ Mahmoud Shahbazi/ Bandar Abbas
branch
- The voyage of Bambak/ Alireza Mohseni /Bandar Abbas branch
- The old man of Hara/ Mahvash Sheikholeslami
- Trap/ Farshad Fadaeian
The short film “BOOMRANG” has been asked by the festival.
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The 56th Trento
Short Film Festival
The 56th Trento Short Film Festival will be held in Italy on
April 27- May 05, 2008. Some of the films that enter the
competition section will be screened in Bolsano city as well.
The following films, produced and distributed by Iranian Young
Cinema Society will present Iran in the festival, if they can
step in the competition section:
1- Wooden Carpet/ Abdolrahman Mirani
2- Man & God/ Mohammad Jafar Bagheri Nia
3- A stone-built house/ Ali Jafari Najaf abadi
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The 54th
Oberhausen International Short Film Festival
The 24th
Hamburg International Short Film Festival will be held in
Oberhausen city in Germany on May 1-6, 2008. The festival is one
of the most significant short film events in the world. The
festival received 6500 submission in its last edition, i.e.
2007.
The following films, produced and distributed by Iranian Young
Cinema Society will present Iran in the festival, if they can
step in the competition section:
1- Lake Uremia/ Reza Amnzadeh/ Orumiyeh branch
2- Window/ Sima Yar Mohammadi/ Neishaboor branch
3- Life, war and nothing more/ Amir Athar Soheili/ Mashad branch
4- Alternation/ Mehdi Fard Ghaderi/ Neishaboor branch
5- At 8 AM/ Mostafa Emami// Tehran branch
6- The anonymous cemetery / Nasir Darvishvand/ Bandar Anzali
branch
7- Soil, water, life/ Alireza Osouli/ Gonabad branch
8- Empty fish bowl/ Atefeh Khademolreza/ Tehran branch
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The 24th Hamburg
International Short Film Festival
The 24th Hamburg International Short Film Festival will be held
in Germany on June 4-9, 2008. The festival stands the second in
rank among the short film events in Germany after Oberhausen.
The following films, produced and distributed by Iranian Young
Cinema Society will present Iran in the festival, if they can
step in the competition section:
1- Boomrang/ Daryoush Gharibzadeh/ Bushehr branch
2- Narrator/ Ali Alaei- Roya Majdnia/ Tehran branch
3- A stone-built house/ Ali Jafari Najaf abadi
4- Not been taken photos/ Ashkan Ahmadi
5- Place of soul/ Sajad Foroughi/ Karaj branch
6- Round 205/ Hamed Khosravi/ Bandar Anzali branch
7- Kia Soltan Holy Shrine/ Ala Mohseni
8- As a dream/ Bahareh Lellahi/ Tehran branch
9- Turquoise/ Hamid Naseri Moghadam/ Neishaboor branch
10- Come on! Everybody is asleep/ Zohre Zamani/ Bandar Anzali
branch
11- Between 2 darkness/ S. Morteza Jazzab/ Tehran branch
12- A fertile ground for dreaming/ Tofigh Amani/ Sanandaj branch
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10th Short
Shorts Film Festival and Asia 2008
The 10th Short Shorts Film Festival and Asia 2008 will be held
in the Japanese capital city of Tokyo on June 29-July 4, 2008.
The film that takes home the festival's Grand Prix will directly
win the ticket for Oscar short films. The following films,
produced and distributed by Iranian Young Cinema Society (IYCS)
will represent Iran in the festival's Asian competition section:
1- Not been taken photos/ Ashkan Ahmadi/ Tehran
2- Boomrang/ Daryoush Gharibzadeh/ Boushehr
3- The Narrator/ Ali Alaei/ Tehran
4- Sol/ Iman Kimyaei/ Tehran
5- The empty fish bowl/ Atefeh Khademolreza/ Tehran
6- Life, and nothing else/ Rouhollah Molavi/ Qom
7- One day of a man/ Naghi Nemati/ Tehran
8- The cotton Tie/ Farzaneh Zeinali/ Abadeh
9- The presence/ Mohsen Ahmadi/ Abadeh
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48th
Cracow Film Festival
Poland will host the 48th Cracow Film Festival on May 30- June
5, 2008. The festival's national and international sections will
screen documentaries up to 60 minutes and animation-feature
films up to 30 minutes respectively. Cracow Film Festival is the
main Short Film Festival in Poland. From Iran, the films below,
produced and distributed by Iranian Young Cinema Society (IYCS)
will be present in the art event:
1- The empty fish bowl/ Atefe Khademolreza/ Tehran
2- Boomrang/ Daryoush Gharibzadeh/ Boushehr
3- Alternation / Mahdi Fard Ghaderi/ Neishaboor
4- At 8 am/ Mostafa Emami/ Tehran
5- Toward the tree of life/ Mohsen Ramezanzadeh/ Tehran
6- The Narrator/ Ali Alaei/ Tehran
7- The Escape/ Salman Bahonar/ Tehran
8- The Scarecrow/ Nasser Nasserpoor/ Khoramabad
9- The limit of a circle/ Shahram Mokri/ Tehran
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Iranian short
film, "Water's Bride", The Best Documentary of the Kyrgyzsatn
Isssik- Kul" Film Festival
Iranian documentary
"Water's Bride" directed by Mahdi Arab Yarmohammadi was awarded
the top prize for the best documentary in Kyrgyzstan's Issik-kul
film festival. The documentary, a product of the Iranian Young
Cinema Society (IYCS), shows how the rain tradition is held in a
district in the Iranian province of Semnan. The event also saw
the jury acclaim the Iranian short film, "Pain & Citron"directed
by Hossein Tourang who has depicted carpet darning.
The Issik-kul film festival which was held in the Kyrgyz city of
"Chalian Ata" showcases documentaries and short films produced
by young filmmakers. The Iranian Young Cinema Society, the
Kyrgyzkino National Organization and Kyrgyzstan Foreign Ministry
have jointly launched the film festival.
Envoys from Armenia, the Azerbaijan Republic, Belarusia,
Georgia, Kazakhstan, Lithonia, Moldavia, Russia, Tajikistan,
Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Estonia, Iran, Turkey, China, Canada, the
US and some European countries were present at the international
event. Nasser Bakideh, the head of the IYCS, represented Iran in
the festival.
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Jury Special
Prize of the first International Qoranic films festival for the
short film"Presence"
The short film
"Presence" directed by Mohsen Ahmadi secured the special prize
of the jury in the First International Quranic Film Festival.
The seven –minute-long film is an experimental version of human
beings ' lifestyle and orientations. ' Presence' had already
been named as the candidate for the best experimental film in
the Young Cinema competition section at the Tehran International
Short Film Festival.
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Iranian short
film "Cotton Tie" in the international competition section of
the most Sweden short film event: Uppsala Short Film Festival
A short animation
produced by the Iranian Young Cinema Society (IYCS) has been
selected for the competition section of 26th Uppsala Short Film
Festival in Sweden.
"Cotton Tie" directed by Farzaneh Zeinali has made it to the
international section of the film event. This year Sweden is
holding the 26th Uppsala Short Film Festival which is its most
leading short film event, on October 22- 28.
Farzaneh Zeinali, a post-graduate student of cinema, is an IYCS
member in Abadeh branch. The 10-minute-long "Cotton Tie" is her
first experience in filmmaking. The short film which is shot
through 3D MAX technique features an eraser that is tasked with
efforts to erase all good vocabularies from the dictionary.
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13th Aye Aye
film festival
A program dubbed "A review of IYCS Short Films" will feature the
following Iranian shorts in the 13th Aye Aye films festivals:
1- Sovas/ Mohammad Ali Hashem Zehi/ Zahedan Branch
2- Maybe somewhere else/ Davood Jalili/ Qom Branch
3- Trap/ Farshad Fadaeian
4- Untitled/ Gholam Hossein Mirjalili/ Yazd Branch
5- Never do the men cry/ Payman Nahan Ghodrati
6- Wooden carpet/ Abdolrahman Mirani
7- Friday, not a working day/ Mahta Nilforoushan
8- Walking in paradise/ Atefe Khademolreza
The French city of Nanci will host the cinematic event on August
31- September 8, 2007.
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The Door" in the
international section of INVIDEO 2007in Italy"
The video Art "The Door" directed by Minoo Iranpour has been
selected for the program of INVIDEO 2007 in the international
Selection. The 17th edition of the INVIDEO film festival is
going to take place in Milan/Italy, 7-11 November,2007.
Iranian Young Cinema Society as the distributor of "The door"
have offered15 short films for the international competition
section of INVIDEO film festival and only THE DOOR has won to
compete in this event.
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The 50th Leipzig
International Documentary and animation film festival
On
October 29- November 4, 2007 Germany will host the 50th Leipzig
International Documentary And Animation film festival. The
following short films produced by Iranian Young Cinema Society
have been submitted for the competition section of this
international event:
1- War &
Life / Jamal
Rahmati/ Zanjan Branch Abadeh Branch/
2- The
Cotton tie /
Farzane Zeinali
3- The place
of life /
Sajad Foroughi
4- Scream
Room /
Sheida Zarrinfam
5- The
Escape /
Salman Bahonar
6- Round 205
/ Hamed Khosravi/ Bandar anzali Branch
7- The
Stone-built house
/ Ali Jafari Najaf
Abadi
8- The water
bride /
Mahdi Arab Yar Mohammadi
9- Friday,
Not a working day
/ Mahta
Nilforoushan
10- The last
dance of Kalkat
/ Maria Amiri/ Shiraz Branch
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International
Amateur Film Festival of Kelibia
Five
Iranian short films produced by Iranian Young Cinema Society
have made it to the 23rd International Amateur Film Festival of
Kelibia due to be held in Tunisia. The following films Kamanche/
Saeid Shah Hosseini/ Arak Branch, Metamorphosis/ Farhad Alizadeh/
Ardabil Branch, Mazari/ Ahmad Saraf Yazd/ Yazd Branch have
selected for the competition section of this film event. The
festival's non competitive section will screen another two IYCS
' short films "Life and nothing else/ Rouhollah Molavi/ Qom
Branch, Round 205/ Hamed Khosravi/ Bandar Anzali Branch. The
amateur film festival will open in Tunisia on August 11 and it
will run through August 18, 2007.
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The 3rd Jordan short film festival
August 24-30 will see the Jordanian city Amman host the
3rd Jordan short
film festival.
The short films:
A letter to Andre / Zohre Zamani/Bandar Anzali Branch
Mazari / Ahmad Saraf Yazd /Yazd Branch
Kamanche /Saeid Shah Hosseini/Arak Branch
Round 205 /Hamed Khosravi/ Bandar Anzali Branch
Metamorphosis /Farhad Alizadeh/ Ardabil Branch
Water's bride/Mahdi Arab Yar Mohammadi
Life and nothing else /Rouhollah Molavi/ Qom Branch
from Iran produced by Iranian Young Cinema Society have been
submitted for the competition section of the festival. A special
section, a review of IYCS short films' was warmly welcomed last
year by short film fans. That has prompted festival officials to
repeat that successful experience this year. The second times
review section will screen the following Iranian short films:
1- Harim / Ali Shahideh/ Kashan Branch
2- Staying barefoot till the daybreak/ Ghasem Ansari
3- Hunt after hunt/Nader Sheikholeslami / Talesh Branch
4- Kia Soltan holy shrine/ Ala Mohseni
5- Hello…Reza?/ Shahram Mirab Aghdam
6- The Limit of a circle/ Shahram Mokri / Tehran Branch
7- Never do the men cry/ Payman Nahan Ghodrati
8- Mashi & Mashianeh/ Hassan Naghashi
9- In an Iranian Market/ Rahbar Ghanbari
10- Dance of Love/Behzad Khodaveisi
11- The whisper of the wind/Mojtaba Koohi / Qazvin Branch
12- The Sound of soil/ Kourosh Garmsari
13- The last Dance of kalkat /Maria Amiri/ Shiraz Branch
14- Friday not a working day/ Mahta Nilforoushan
15- The whisper of wind on the grove /Akbar Mahmoudi Shariat/
Tabriz Branch
16- Flying by the red chair/ Bahman Dadfar
17- A thimbleful of water/Ahmad Arjomandi
18- The unescapable parallels/ Mansour Heidari/ Qom Branch
19- The pond/ Mehdi Jafari
20- Nazareh/ Mohammad Reza Gohari
21- Two sisters/ Bijan Mirbagheri
22- Love/ Omid Bonakdar, Kayvan Ali Mohammadi
23- The good soil/ Ali Zamani Esmati
24- The broken cart/ Saeid Shah Hosseini
25- Sovas/ Mohammad Ali Hashemzehi / Zahedan Branch
The festival, in general, puts on display films in different
categories such as:
Arab short films competition section
Int'l short films competition section
Children short films competition section
A review of Iranian short films section
A review of German short films section
A review of Syrian short films section
A review of French short films section
A review of Finnish short films section
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The 13th Aye Aye film festival
The 13th Aye
Aye film festival opens in Nanci, France from August 31 to September 8.Some Iranian short
films produced by Iranian Young Cinema Society have been sent
for the international section:
1- The Presence /Mohsen Ahmadi /Abadeh Branch
2- Round 205 / Hamed Khosravi / Bandar Anzali Branch
3- The door / Minoo Iranpoor
4- A chance for smoking/ Bita Khodadad
5- The Cotton tie / Farzaneh Zeinali / Abadeh Branch
6- A slight spring /Rouhollah Bahrami/ Shiraz Branch
7- Scream room / Sheida Zarrinfam
8- The thicket / Asghar Saffar
and, "A Review of IYCS's short films' is the other part of the
festival. IYCS has sent the following short films which are
representing Iran in the review section.
1- Sovas / Mohammad Ali Hashemzehi/Zahedan Branch
2- The road / Davoud Jalili/ Qom Branch
3- Walking in Paradise/ Atefe Khademolreza
4- Never do the men cry/ Payman Nahan Ghodrati
5- Life and nothing else/ Rouhollah Molavi/ Qom Branch
6- The Trap/ Farshad Fadaeian
7- Mashi & Mashianeh/ Hassan Naghashi
8- The old man of Harra/ Mahvash Sheikholeslami
9- Crimson red/ Samira Baradari
10- Staying barefoot till the daybreak/ Ghasem Ansari
11- Untitled/ Gholamhossein Mirjalili
12- Wooden Carpet/ Abdolrahman Mirani
13- Water's bride/ Mahdi Arab Yarmohammadi
14- Kamanche /Saeid Shah Hosseini/ Arak Branch
15- Friday, not a working day/ Mahta Nilforoushan
16- These Soldiers/Masoud Hosseini / Malayer Branch
17- Maybe Somewhere else/Davoud Jalili / Qom Branch
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The 17th Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival
The 17th Sao
Paulo International Short Film Festival kicks off in Brazil from August 24 to Sept 2. The non-competitive festival,
among Brazil's the most important short film events, hosted
28000 cinema lovers or thereabout back in 2005. Participant
films will compete in the following sections: Brazilian films,
International films section, Latin American films, and a review
of some countries' films. The Iranian Films that have made their
way into the review section are:
1-The Partner/Reza Goudarzi
2- The Cotton tie / Farzane Zeinali/ Abadeh Branch
3- Hello…Reza?/ Shahram Mirab Aghdam
4- The Scarecrow/ Nasser Nasserpoor / Khoramabad Branch
5- Puzzle/ Kianoush Hajizadeh
6- With him/ Naghi Nemati
7- Anti memories Kourosh Farzanegan / Lahijan Branch
8- The Limit of a circle /Shahram Mokri/ Tehran Branch
9- A Chance for smoking/ Bita Khodadad
10- Metamorphosis / Farhad Alizadeh/ Ardabil Branch
11- The Presence /Mohsen Ahmadi/ Abadeh Branch
12- Zero hour/Behzad Pishkar / Shahrekord Branch
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The 13th Drama Short Film Festival
The 13th
Drama Short Film Festival will be held in Greece on
Sep 16-22. The Iranian shorts,
1-The limit of a circle/ Shahram Mokri/ Tehran Branch
2- The escape/ Salman Bahonar
3-My mother,Iran/ Amir Hossein Kiani
4- Thanks Sir! I'm getting off / Shahram Mirab Aghdam
5- A bed for nobody/ Morteza Jazzab
…produced by Iranian Young Cinema Society have been sent to the
festival, which Greece's the most important short film festival.
The festival only accepts films in 16mm and 35mm formats. The
much – coveted prizes are as follows:
- Best film award
- The 2nd top film
- Balkan best film
- Best animation film
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ECI Organizes 1st ECO Film Festival in Bishkek – Kyrgyz
Republic
The 1st ECO
Film Festival
ever to be held outside Iran was launched by ECO Cultural
Institute and Kyrgyzkino , the National Kyrgyz Film Company,
with the cooperation of IYCS, the Iranian young cinema society
,27 March – 3 April 2007 in Bishkek and other major cities in
the Kyrgyz Republic.
The week long event, screening six Iranian short films, was
coordinated by ECI, based on the existing MOU signed earlier
with Kyrgyzkino the highest authority in the cinema industry of
Kyrgyz Republic. The Festival held in the capital city and other
towns across the country, including Osh, Jalal-abad, Toshkamar
and Uzgeneh, with Norouz as its main theme attracted huge crowds
of admirers, especially young university students and film
critiques and was covered extensively by the national media of
the country. In the opening ceremony attended by the
representative of the Kyrgyz Ministry of Culture and a number of
high ranking officials, the president of kyrgyzkino, Mr.Zamir
Eraliev thanked the ECO cultural Institute for initiating this
unique cultural program and appreciated the efforts put forward
by IYCS for helping out the materialization of this rare
cultural event. He further added that based on the existing MOU
signed earlier between ECI and Kyrgyzkino, kyrgyz films will be
screened in Tehran and other major cities of the ECO Member
States in the near future. Moreover, there are tentative plans
for the exchange of technical experts, and joint production of
short documentaries and animation films.
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The 26th Uppsala International Short Film Festival
The 26th
Uppsala International film festival, among Sewden's the most significant short film events, is
due to be held in the city of Uppsala on October 22-28 this
year. The following films produced by Iranian Young Cinema
Society have been sent for the festival to compete in the
competition section:
- Round 205/ Hamed khosravi/ Bandar Anzali Branch
- As simple as it is/ Sajjad Foroughi/ Karaj Branch
- A chance for smoking/ Bita Khodadad
- Maybe somewhere else/ Davoud Jalili/ Qom Branch
- The Road/ Davoud Jalili/ Qom Branch
Niclas Gillberg who served on the jury in the Tehran 11th
international short film festival is the director of the Uppsala
short film festival.
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