Short Film News (SFN)- The official selection for 25th International Short Film Festival Hamburg with three Iranian Shorts among them was announced.
 
The Old Men Never Die by Reza Jamali & The wooden Carpet by Abdolrahman Mirani from Iran are in International Competition and also Mahdi Jaefari with My Father Gave Me Water is in Three-Minute Quickie section.
 
This event has five competitive sections: International Competition, NoBudget, German Competition, Hamburg Competition and Three-Minute Quickie.
 
Furthermore, this year Hamburg has several special programs on the festival menu.

“Focus on Romania” with screening shorts from Romania, "The Sound of Cities" is a collection of musically underlayed super-8 films portraying the sound of international metropolises in the 70's.

"Cinematic highlights" from the past quarter of a century of Hamburg short film history. Best of 25 years is a program where the audience selects the films like choosing songs from a jukebox under the condition that no film can run more than once and "Suitcase from Kosovo" with screening selected short films and video art pieces from Kosovo.

25th International Short Film Festival Hamburg take place from June 2 until June 8 in Germany and full list of the official selection is available at festival's website: www.festival.shortfilm.com