Short Film News (SFN)- The selected films for the International competition of 24th National and 12th International Tehran Short Film Festival are announced.

Among the received films, only 99 films from 48 countries are selected to compete in the international section of the festival.

26 thousand Euros is the total amount of the prizes to be given to the best films in International Competition and Special Competition. In International Competition 3 thousand Euros would dedicate to each best work in fiction, documentary, animation, and experimental, together with a Festival trophy and an honored diploma and the Grand Prize of this section including a festival trophy, an honored diploma and 5 thousand Euros, would be given to the best film.  

Also in International Cinema Section there will be three other sections: Asian Pacific, Questing the Truth, Films about Islam and 9 thousand Euros will be given to each best film in these three sections together with a festival trophy and an honored diploma.

The name list of the selected films in the International Competition of Tehran Short Film Festival is as follows:

Iran

The Lost Doll (Moien Samadi), Ambar (Mohammad Reza Sarsaz Yazdi), Cold Dream (Peyman Nahan Ghodrati), God Sees (Reza jamali), Wish Garden (Jamshid Bairami), Closer than Breath (Parivash Nazarieh), Boomerang (Dariush Gharibzadeh), My Earth (Ahmad Kakavand), The Empty Fish Pitcher (Atefeh Khadem Al-Reza)

 

Japan

Tsukiji Market (Massimiliano Mazzotta), Hajime (Kenishin Nawa), Bones (Shinsaku Hidaka)

South Korea

Pig and Shakespeare (Geon Kim), A Chalk (Hang Yong Choi), The Sea of Their Own (Woonki Kim)

Bangladesh

The Peanut Seller (Farid Shah)

China

The Well in 80's (Park-Ho Chau)

Sri Lanka

Treacling Down (Upali Gamlath)

Singapore

Grandma (Anthony Chen)

Palestine

Open Heart (Claire Fowler)

India

The Cabin Man (Ashish Pandey)

 

Russia

A Perfect Place (Elena Solodkova)

France

The Flamish Proverbs (Antonie Roegiers), Sophia (David Perrault), Farco (Armende Chollat-Namy), Adele (Seb Coupy), Jacques Higelin's Dream (Lyonel Louro), James Dean (Corentin Rouge), Ratrix Hero (Raphael Hernandez), Faccia d'angelo (Elsa Amiel), Puzzle (Jeremie Bouet)

United Kingdom

I (Luke Losey), ELA (Silvana Aguirre Zegarra), Ordinary Magic (Deborah Anzalone), Between Love and Death (Ralitsa Kiskinova), Borderline (Alex Chandon), Slitary (Babak Anvari)

Italy

The Colors of Black (Alberto Nacci), Fireworks (Alberto Nacci), Refugium Peccatorom (Stefano Alleva)

Germany

Epilogue (Ralph Baudach), Video 3000 (Marc Schleiss), Noiseless (Nadja Burdack, Sther Dobryn, Maria Heideperieme)

Spain

Chimezie (Isabelle Fournet)

Mexico

I Want to Be a Pilot (Diego Quemada-Diez)

Romania

Duty (Vlad Trandafir), Humoresque (Diana Deleanu), Africa Straight on Ice (Razvan Muraru)

Switzerland

Greina (Villi Hermann), The Unknown House (Andree Tavares), Backup (Xavier Bieri)

Finland

High Hopes (Mazdak Nassir), Highway Man (Antti Laakso)

Poland

Ark (Grzegorz Jonkajtys), Taking Care (Jan Wagner), Dies Irae (Joana Jasinska-Koronkiewicz), Below the Silence (Piotr Ryczko), Half Me (Justyna Tafel)

Norway

Traveling (Michel Pavlou), Mila (Piotr Ryczko)

Netherlands

The Way it is (Elizabeth Rocha Salgado), Following the Fish (Deniz Baser), Lipari (Frank Van Den Engel), Tree (Tomas Schats)

Greece

You Asked me to Wait (Gregory Rentis), The Trikala Photographer (Vassilis Kosmopoulos)

Slovakia

Monster (Michaele Ostadalova)

Ukrain

The Jar (Maryna Gorbach)

Ireland

Teeth (John Kennedy), The Faeries of Black Heart Wood (Claran Foy)

Azerbaijan

Children of the Oil (Heydar Aslanov)

Belgium

Compassion (Tom Geens)

Portugal

Pe de Feijao (Catarina Afonso)

Turkey

Single Wall City (Sevgi Ortac)

Lithuania

The Horizons or Life at Louvers (Diana Matuzeviciene)

Hungary

Siren (Andras Novak)

Sweden

Odd Normal (Maria Avramova), The Intruder (Daniel Wirtberg)

Kyrgyzstan

Duty of the Son (Temirbek Birnazarov)

Croatia

Night of the Crystal (Stanislav Tomic)

Montenegro

Fisherman George Scatters the Gloom (Perovic Vladimir)

Burkina Faso

The Griot from Dapore (Jaap Van Heusden)

Tunisia

Magic Crop (Anis Lassoued)

Kenya

Kibera Kid (Nathan Collett)

Egypt

Palm’s Whisper (Shereen Ghieth)

Canada

Regarding Sarah (Michelle Porter), John's Untitled Clock (Shine Mi-Hiang Park), Universal Movement MaChine: Meshell Melvin Portraits (Kirby Hammond)

USA

Windows Masks Doors (Sarah Orenstein)

Brazil

To the North (Gabriel Mascaro), Poet'sTrain (Cristina Pinheiro), Dwelleers of 304 (Leonardo Catapreta)

Mexico

FENIX (Fernanda Romandia Creel), Venus (Jose Alvarez),

Argentina

The Boatman (Dylan Howitt)

Colombia

Juanito under the Orange Tree (Juan Carlos Villamizar)

Chile

From Afar (Alejandro Fernandez Almendras)

Australia

...But a Giant Leap for Mr. Larkin (Kjetil Andreas Knusten)

New Zealand

Nature's Way (Jane Shearer)

 

The 24^th National Festival and 12^th Tehran International Short Film Festival is going to take place from 13 till 18 November 2007 in Tehran.