Meet you at our stand Riviera E8
Cannes Film Market

Iranian Young Cinema Society ( IYCS ) & Documentary and Experimental Film Center ( DEFC ) work together with the same managing director in producing, promoting and distributing short films ( fiction, documentary, experimental and animation ) ,

Feature and long documentary films in different formats such as: 35mm, 16mm,
DVCam and Betacam.

IYCS + DEFC provide film festivals, film markets, TV Channels, theaters, universities, institutes and other organizations which are interested in Iranian short, documentary and feature films.

Working as the organizer of Tehran International Short Film Festival and Cultural Heritage of the Iranian Civilization Documentary Film Festival "
Yadegar ", we are also interested in buying documentary and short films from other countries, co-production, marketing and distributing the independent films.

Iranian Young Cinema Society & Documentary and Experimental Film Center
will have the stand at the Cannes Film Market and our feature film " Bitter Dream "

Directed by Mohsen Amir
Yousefi has been selected at the Cannes film festival.

Iranian Young Cinema Society & Documentary and Experimental Film Center

www.iycs-ir.com
www.defc.org
www.shortfilm-ir.com
www.shortfilmfest-ir.com
 

Two films produced by Iranian Young Cinema Society & Documentary and Experimental Film Center
have been selected to be screened for Asian Short Prism section which is competitive at the Busan Asian Short Film Festival 2004, which will take place on May 5th through 9th, 2004.

1- The Window by Behzad Rasoulzadeh
2- Dragonfly Storm by Shahram Mokri

www.basff.org
 

Screening of the Iranian Short and Documentary Films produced by " Iranian Young Cinema Society & Documentary and Experimental Film Center at the " Abu Dhabi 3rd International Film Festival in United Arab Emirates " from 3rd to 8th March, 2004

http://web.cultural.org.ae/emiratesfilm

The films:

1- The dawn it was
2- Two sisters
3- Circle
4- Telephone
5- Watch tower
6- Shalizeh
7- Milkan
8- The dairy
9- Life in the yard
10- The hole
11- The trench on the other side
12- Roohangiz Saminejad
13- Dervish of Metals
14- Is it raining?
 

We would like to invite you to watch " An Iranian Program " at ARTE containing three short films of our productions and a reportage about our film festival ( Tehran International Short Film Festival 2003 ).

For more information, please visit the web site: www.arte-tv.de

Meet you at our Stand ( IYCS + DEFC )

-19th International Clermont- Ferrand Short Film Market, Feb.2nd-6th, 2004 ( France )
-7th Iranian International Market for Films and TV Programs, Feb.2nd-5th,2004 ( Tehran-Iran )

Iranian Young Cinema Society ( IYCS ) & Documentary and Experimental Film Center ( DEFC ) work together with same managing director in producing, promoting and distributing short films ( Fiction, Documentary, Animation and Experimental ) feature and long documentary films in different formats such as 35mm, 16mm, DVCam and Betacam.

IYCS and DEFC provide film festivals, film markets, TV Channels, theaters, universities, institutes and other organizations which are interested in Iranian Short and Documentary Films.
We are also interested in buying documentary and short films from other countries too.

Other activities are:

- Organizing Tehran 9th International Short Film Festival
( The last edition was held on October 20th-25th, 2003 )
- To organize the Panorama to the French Documentary Films
( June 13th-19th, 2003 )
- Organizing the 3rd Cultural Heritage of Iranian Civilization Documentary Film Festival " Yadegar "
( The last edition was held on May 18th-25th, 2003 )
- To organize the Panorama to the Lebanese and Palestinian Documentary Films
( December 23rd -26th, 2003 )
- Co-production
- Marketing and distributing the films which produced by independent filmmakers

For more information, please visit our web sites:

www.iycs-ir.com
www.defc.org
www.shortfilm-ir.com
www.shortfilmfest-ir.com

The following films produced by the Iranian Young Cinema Society have been selected for the competition program of the 9th International Short Film Festival in Drama, which will take place in Greece, along with the 26th National from 14 to 20 September 2003.
1- "NEIGHBOUR", by Ali Mousafa
2- "THE ILLUMINATED DREAM OF THE LITTLE WORM" , by Malahat Hosseini

The following films produced by the Iranian Young Cinema Society, have been selected for the New Asian Currents program at the 8th Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival in Japan which will be held on October 10th-16th , 2003.
1- The old man of Hara, by Mahvash Sheikholeslami
2- Noah's Ark, by Soudabeh Babagap
3- The ballad of life, by Panahbarkhouda Rezaei

http://www.city.yamagata.yamagata.jp/yidff/

The following films produced by the Iranian Young Cinema Society, have been selected for the 14th Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival which will be held from August 28th to September 6th, 2003 in Brazil.
1- The red wind, by Ali Mohammad Ghasemi
2- Noah's Ark, by Soudabeh Babagap
www.kinoforum.org

The following films produced by the Iranian Young Cinema Society have been selected at the International Competition section of the 18th International Odense Film Festival which will be held on August 11th-16th , 2003 in Denmark.
1- The Red Wind , by Ali Mohammad Ghasemi
2- Stranger and Native , by Ali Mohammad Ghasemi
www.filmfestival.dk

The film, " The Red Wind " produced by the Iranian Young Cinema Society has been selected for the international competition section of the 10th Capalbio International Short Film Festival which will be held on July 2nd- 6th, 2003 in Italy .
www.capalbiocinema.com

The film, " Night under the sky " produced by the Iranian Young Cinema Society has been selected for the international competition section of the 18th Cinema Jove International Short Film Festival which is held on June 14th-21st, 2003 in Valencia-Spain.

The following films produced by the Iranian Young Cinema Society have been selected to screen at the 12th Brisbane International Film Festival which will be held from July 29th till August 10th, 2003 in Australia.
1- Clusters of love, by Afsaneh Monadi
2- The good soil, by Ali Zamani Esmati
3- A picture without a frame, by Mona Zandi Haghighi
4- The Red Wind, by Ali Mohammad Ghasemi
5- Two sisters, by Bijan Mir Bagheri
6- The wave on the shore, by Ali Mohammad Ghasemi
www.biff.com.au

The film " Composer " produced by the Iranian Young Cinema Society has been selected for the program of the 17th Parnu International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival which will be held on July 6th- 13th,2003 in Estonia.
www.chaplin.ee

The film, " The joy of fire " produced by the Iranian Young Cinema Society has been selected at the International Competition section of the " XIII Message to Man Int'l Documentary, Short and Animated Film Festival " which will be held in St.Petersburg - Russia on June 15th-22th , 2003.
www.message-to-man.spb.ru

The film, " The pond " produced by the Iranian Young Cinema Society has been selected at the International Competition section of the " XIII Message to Man Int'l Documentary, Short and Animated Film Festival " which will be held in St.Petersburg - Russia on June 15th-22th , 2003.
www.message-to-man.spb.ru

The film, " The good soil " produced by the Iranian Young Cinema Society has been selected to screen at the Competition Section of the " Canadian Film Centre's Worldwide Short Film Festival" which will be held in Canada on June 3th-8th, 2003.
www.worldwideshortfilmfest.com

The following films produced by the Iranian Young Cinema Society have been selected for screening during the Special Event “Short Films by Iranian Women” that will take one hour show every day during the six days of the " 54th Montecatini International Short Film Festival " from 14th to 19th July, 2003 in Italy:

1. The ballad of life             director: Maryam Khoveini
2. The arrow                      director: Shirin Bargh Navard
3. The north star                director: Tahere Ashiani
4. The song of rain girls      director: Farahnaz Asoudeh
5. A photo without a frame  director: Mona Zandi Haghighi
6. The house is white          director Tayebeh Falakian
7. Music and anguish          director: Zahra Jafari
8. The role                        director: Fariba Ashouli
9. Silk                               director: Mahvash Sheikholeslami
10.Shalizeh                       director: Azam Najahian
11.Under the skin of Baran  director: Shalizeh Aref Poor
12.Clusters of love              director: Asfaneh Monadi
13.Khatoon                        director: Arezou Baradaran Ebrahimi

Two films have been also selected for the International Competition of this festival :

1. Whiter than snow
2. Two women

www.filmvideomontecatini.com


The following films produced by the Iranian Young Cinema Society have been selected at the International Competition section of the " 31st HUESCA INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL"
which will be held on June 5th-14th, 2003 in Spain.

1- " Jasmine " by Ardalan Ashouri
2- " Scarecrow " by Seyed Mohammad Taherian
3- " Without title " by Panahbarkhouda Rezaei
www.huesca-filmfestival.com

The Iranian Short Films produced by the Iranian Young Cinema Society at the Busan Asian Short Film Festival:
The films:
The Loss Soil ( Hossein Ghanaat ) , A Good Soil ( Ali Zamani Esmati ) , The Heavenly Father ( Peyman Nahan Godrati ) , and The Grub ( Moustafa Ale Ahmad ) have been selected to be screened for Asian Scope section and the films: The Ballad of Life ( Panahbarkhouda Rezaei ), Noah's Ark ( Soudabeh Babagap ) , Cradle( Nasser Bakideh ) and The Joy of Fire ( Ali Mohammad Ghasemi ) have been selected to be screened for Beyond Reality section at the Busan Asian Short Film Festival, which will take place on May 15th-20th, 2003 in Korea.
http://www.basff.org

" The Red Wind " by Ali Mohammad Ghasemi, produced by the Iranian Young Cinema Society,is chosen to be screened in the International Competition of " 15th Filmfest Dresden " , Germany April 15th-20th, 2003
http://www.filmfest-dresden.de

" My doll and me " by Parivash Nazarieh, produced by the Iranian Young Cinema Society, is selected to screen at the " 9th International Women's Film Festival Dortmund " , Germany
April 2nd-6th, 2003.
http://www.femmetotale.de
 

The film, " STRANGER AND NATIVE " produced by the Iranian Young Cinema Society has been selected in the Fiction Competition program at the 36th New York EXPOsition of Short Film and Video which runs December 6 - 12 at the Cinema Village Theater, East 12 St. at University Place in lower Manhattan, USA.

The film, " The Red Wind " , produced by the Iranian Young Cinema Society has been selected in Competition Section of the 44th International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao- Spain, November 25th, 30th - 2002.
 

An Iranian Perspective: LIFE IN SHORT FILM
Apollo Cinema creates unique showcase of Iranian Short Films produced by the Iranian Young Cinema Society.
Apollo Cinema with Laemmle Theaters will present 4 week program beginning on September 21st, 2002 in USA to screen the following Iranian Short Films:
Silk , director: Mahvash Sheikholeslami
Pilgrimage , director: Mehdi Jafari
A photo without frame , director: Mona Zandi Haghighi
Good Soil , director: Ali Zamani Esmati
For more information, please visit the following web site:
www.apollocinema.com/iran

The following films which produced by the Iranian Young Cinema Society have been selected to screen at the Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films that runs August 6 through 12, 2002. Screenings are at the Camelot Theatres, 2300 E Baristo Road, Palm Springs, California- USA.
1- " A Man and His Shadow ", directed by Bijan Mir Bagheri
2- " Good Soil " , directed by Ali Zamani Esmati
3- " Clusters of Love " , directed by Afsaneh Monadi
4- " The Picture without a frame " , directed by Mona Zandi Haghighi
Web Site: www.psfilmfest.org

4 Films of the Iranian Young Cinema Society are screened at the "  Special Focus " of the 49th Sydney Film Festival Australia, June 7th-21st, 2002. 
 1- Sewn lips
 2- Ghooo, Ghooo, Leaf of sycamore
 3- Silk
 4- Charsho
 Web site of the festival: www.sydneyfilmfestivsl.com

19th Busan Asian Short Film Festival
May 29th- June 2nd, 2002 in the city of Busan- Korea
As a special program, they have prepared Ali Mohammad Ghasemi: special
screening' presenting his 6 films produced by the Iranian Young Cinema
Society that will illustrate his passion for short film and his unique
visual technique.