Short Film News (SFN)- The REGARD Saguenay International Short Film Festival (Canada) is accepting short films until November 1, 2023.
Short Film News (SFN)- Iranian short film “Sampo” will compete at the 23rd Annual DeadCenter Film Festival in the United States.
Directed by Marziyeh Riahi, produced by Hossein Kakavand, and written by Marjan Riahi, the Iranian short piece will participate at the 23rd Annual deadCenter Film Festival.
Short Film News (SFN)- The 54th Tampere Film Festival is accepting short films until November 1st, 2023.
Tampere is one of the oldest and the biggest short film festivals in Europe. Academy Award®, Bafta and European Film Academy qualifying festival, recognised festival by International Federation of Film Producers Associations FIAPF and member of Short Film Conference ISFC.
Short Film News (SFN)- Iranian short documentary “Mrs. Iran's Husband” directed by Marjan Khosravi was awarded at 30th Hot Docs International Documentary Festival.
“Mrs. Iran's Husband” is sixth film which was directed by Marjan Khosravi. The Iranian short documentary has been inspired by “Madam Ahou's Husband”, a novel written by Ali Mohammad Afghani.
Short Film News (SFN)- “The Lovely Sky” and “Katvoman”, two shorts by Iranian directors, have been selected to be screened at the 63rd Zlin Film Festival.
Short Film News (SFN)- Selected from 4288 films, 11 shorts will be presented this year in Competition, coming from 12 countries : Argentina, Colombia, Spain, the United States, France, Hungary, Indonesia, Iceland, Norway, Poland, the United Kingdom and Ukraine. The Short Film Palme d’or will be handed by the Jury chaired by Ildikó Enyedi, Saturday, May 27, during the closing ceremony of the 76th Festival de Cannes.
Short Film News (SFN)- The jury consists of Iranian-American screenwriter and director Ana Lily Amirpour, Canadian actress and director Charlotte Le Bon, French actress Karidja Toure and Israeli filmmaker Shlomi Elkabetz.
Short Film News (SFN)- The Iranian short film 'Sampo' will take part in the 28th Palm Beach International Film Festival in the United States.
Directed by Marziyeh Riahi, produced by Hossein Kakavand and written by Marjan Riahi, the Iranian short piece will be screened at the international competition section of the 28th Palm Beach International Film Festival in the United States.
Short Film News (SFN)- Iranian shorts “The Dream of a Horse” and “Deer” will compete in different sections of the 71st edition of the Trento Film Festival in Italy.
The event, which focuses on mountain films, will take place in Trento from April 28 to May 7.
Short Film News (SFN)- Pedro Almodóvar’s “Strange Way of Life” will world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in the Official Selection.
The festival confirmed the news and said Almodovar will attend the premiere with his two lead actors, Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal, in attendance. The short marks Almodovar’s second English-language experience, after “The Human Voice” in 2020.
Short Film News (SFN)- “Dream’s Gate” by Iranian filmmaker Negin Ahmadi has won an honorable mention at ZagrebDox, an international documentary film festival in the Croatian capital of Zagreb.
In “Dream’s Gate” co-produced by Iran, France and Norway, Ahmadi starts a personal journey into the combat zone of north Syria to question what it means to be a woman.
Short Film News (SFN)- Iranian short film “Russian vodka” produced and directed by Seyed Payam Hosseini will participate in 62nd Zlín International Film Festival for Children and Youth in the Czech Republic.
Short Film News (SFN)- Iranian short flick ‘Orthodontics’ has been praised at the Filmfest Dresden in Germany.
Directed by Mohammadreza Mayghani, the short film has been appreciated at Germany's Filmfest Dresden which was held on April 5-10.
Short Film News (SFN)- Three Iranian short films are to take part in the competition section of Show Me Shorts Film Festival in New Zealand.
Show Me Shorts is Aotearoa New Zealand’s leading international short film festival.
Short Film News (SFN)- Iranian filmmaker Elaheh Esmaeili’s “The Doll” has been selected as best short documentary at the Canadian documentary festival Hot Docs in Toronto.
Short Film News (SFN)- The winners of various national and international competition sections of the 37th edition of the Tehran International Short Film Festival (TISFF) were introduced.
Short Film News (SFN)- Marziyeh Riahi, the director of the acclaimed Iranian short movie “Driving Lessons”, has been selected as a member of the jury for the 21st Asiatica Film Festival in Italy.
Short Film News (SFN)- The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) has honored two Iranian movies with three awards.
‘Radiograph of a Family’, by Firuzeh Khosrovani, won the IDFA Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary, in addition to an award for best creative use of the archive.
Short Film News (SFN)- Iranian short film, 'All the Time' directed by Shadi Karamroudi, has been accepted into the competition program of the 25th edition of Busan International Film Festival in South Korea.
Short Film News (SFN)- Introducing, as every year, the Official Selection of short films in Competition at the Festival d Cannes in 2020.
A total of 3,810 films from 137 different countries were watched by the selection committee this year, compared to 4,240 in 2019.
Short Film News (SFN)- Five Iranian short films will be screened at the 26th edition of Palm Springs International Short Festival in the US.
The festival is considered as a gateway for the Academy Awards nomination.
Short Film News (SFN)- Two Iranian short films, ‘Driving Lessons’ by Marziyeh Riahi, and ‘Pedovore’ by Mohammad Kart, have been selected to vie at the 26th International Short Film Week Regensburg in Germany.
Short Film News (SFN)- Iranian cinema was praised at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) with awards in three categories, including best director for Mehrdad Oskui, the organizers announced on Thursday.
Short Film News (SFN)- For the first time, the Spotlight section of the Berlin International Film Festival in Germany presents four short films during the 36 edition of the Tehran International Short Film Festival.
Short Film News (SFN)- Behdokht Valian has won the Best Actress Award for her role in the Iranian short film ‘Tattoo’ from the 37th Sulmona International Film Festival (SIFF), held in Italy, November 6-9.
Short Film News (SFN)- Iranian short "Driving Lessons" receives award at the Topaz Film Festival by Women in Film Dallas in the US.
Directed by Marziyeh Riahi, "Driving Lessons" won a Jury Award at the 18th edition of the US festival.
Short Film News (SFN)- The 18th Third Eye Asian Film Festival to be held between 12-19 Dec 2019 in Mumbai is calling for entries.
The festival has competition sections: Best Short Film Competition and Competition for women film Maker's in Asia.
Short Film News (SFN)- Iranian filmmaker Marziyeh Riahi’s acclaimed movie “Driving Lessons” won the Golden Apricot for best short film at the 16th Golden Apricot International Film Festival in Yerevan, Armenia.
Short Film News (SFN)- Iranian short films directed by Marziyeh Riahi, Eghbal Shirzaei sani, Maryam Zarei and Yaser Talebi will attend the 33rd Edmonton International Film Festival.
Short Film News (SFN)- Iranian short film "Dissect" and feature documentary "A House for You" have been accepted into the competition programs of the 59th Kraków Film Festival in Poland.
Short Film News (SFN)- “Pedovore” (Child Eater) and “MagRalen” directed by Iranian filmmakers will attend 2019 Odense International Film Festival.
Short Film News (SFN)- French filmmaker and screenwriter Claire Denis is to lead the Short Films and Cinéfondation Jury of the 72nd Festival de Cannes.
Short Film News (SFN)- Iranian short ‘American Bull’ directed by Fateme Tousi has made it into the 65th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen in Germany.
Oberhausen is one of the oldest short film festivals in the world.
Short Film News (SFN)- Iranian Short ‘Driving Lessons’ directed by Marziyeh Riahi will go on screen at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival in the US.
Tribeca is one of the most credible festivals of North America, confirmed by Academy Awards.
Short Film News (SFN)- Two Iranian films will go on screen at the 49th edition of the Tampere Film Festival in Finland.
Short Film News (SFN)- Five Iranian films will go on screen at the 16th edition of the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, which will be held in the U.S. city of Missoula, Montana from February 15 to 24.
Marziyeh Riahi (SFN)- Based on a firm desire to support the visibility of film produced by women around the world and also the growing presence and work of women in all walks of the audio- visual industry, while also bearing witness to the situation of women in countries where equality is far from being a reality, ZINEBI 60 has included "Focus Iranian Women Filmmakers: The Present is Female!"
I discussed with the festival director Vanesa Fernandez Guerra, about this section and her comments on women's cinema.
Short Film News (SFN)- The 60th edition of Bilbao International Festival of Documentary and Short Film (ZINEBI) has dedicated a section on the works of Iranian female filmmakers curated by Ghasideh Golmakani.
Short Film News (SFN)- A lineup of Iranian movies will be competing in the 36th Milano International FICTS Festival, which is dedicated to sports movies.
The films will go on screen in different sections of the festival running in the Italian city of Milan from November 14 to 19, the organizers have announced.
Short Film News (SFN)- Iranian short films Return by Shahriar Pourseyedian and It Rains Slowly by Saeid Nejati have won awards at the 21st Religion Today Film Festival in Italy.
Short Film News (SFN)- The Iranian short films “Umbra” and “Maned & Macho” will be competing in the 37th Uppsala International Short Film Festival, which will be held in the Swedish city from October 22 to 28, the organizers have announced.
Short Film News (SFN)- The 17th Third Eye Asian Film Festival to be held between 13-20 Dec 2018 in Mumbai is calling for entries.
The festival has competition sections: Best Short Film Competition and Competition for women film Maker's in Asia.
Short Film News (SFN)- Iran documentarist and screenwriter Marjan Riahi is set to serve as juror at the 14th Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival.
Marjan Riahi has been selected as NETPAC jury in the 14th Cinemalaya film event.
Sundance Institute has selected five projects for this year’s Documentary Edit and Story Lab, which will take place at the Sundance Resort in Utah on July 6
Short Film New (SFN)- Iranian short film Forouzan, directed by Mirabbas Khosravinejad, received Best Short award at the 5th FRESCO International Festival held in Armenia.
Short Film News (SFN)- Three movies from Iranian filmmakers will be competing in the Palm Springs International Shortfest in the city in the U.S. state of California.
The festival runs from June 19-25 and will showcase 333 films including 42 world premieres, 32 international premieres, 42 North American premieres, and 13 US premieres.
Short Film News (SFN)– MOTELX - Lisbon International Horror Film Festival invited filmmakers to submit their films for its 12th edition which will run 4 to 9 September at Portugal.
MOTELX - Lisbon International Horror Film Festival aims to screen horror films produced in the last couple of years all around the globe.
Short Film News (SFN)- The winners of the 21st Cinéfondation Selection at the Cannes Film Festival have been announced.
The Cinéfondation Selection consisted of 17 student films, chosen out of 2 426 entries coming from 512 film schools around the world.
Short Film News (SFN) -Two Iranian films won awards in the competitive section of the 5th Tripoli Film Festival in Lebanon.
26 shorts, 8 animations, 6 documentaries and 8 features were chosen this year for the official sellection and 7 movies were awarded.
Short Film News (SFN) -Two Iranian short films have been chosen for Short Films Competition and Cinefondation Selection categories at the 71st Festival de Cannes in France.
Short Film News (SFN) -The Iranian documentary “The Broker” will compete in Hot Docs, a prestigious Canadian international documentary festival.
Hot Docs, the Canadian international documentary festival has picked “The Broker” by Azadeh Moqaddam.
Short Film News (SFN) -Two Iranian animated pieces have made it into the competition program of the 42nd edition of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France.
Short Film News (SFN) -Iranian short film ‘It Rains Slowly’ directed by Saeed Nejati has won the Best Feature Film Award at the 6th edition of Nepal Human Rights International Film Festival (NHRIFF).
Short Film News (SFN) -The Iranian movies “Maned & Macho” by Shiva Sadeq-Asadi and “The Distance” by Yusef Kargar will compete in the 35th Busan International Short Film Festival, which will run in the South Korean city from April 24 to 29.
Short Film News (SFN) -International Film Festival Regard which is one of the most prestigious cultural events in Canada will highlight the talent of the Iranian young filmmaker Ghasideh Golmakani.
Short Film News (SFN) -A lineup of eight Iranian short movies will go on screen at the 13th Athens AnimFest, which will be held in the Greek capital from March 15 to 18.
Short Film News (SFN) -Movies from Iranian filmmakers will be screened at the ClujShorts International Short Film Festival, which will be held in the northwestern Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca from April 23 to 29.
Short Film News (SFN) -The films of two Iranian female filmmakers will participate in the 33rd Santa Barbara International Film Festival in the United States.
This festival, which is one of the eligible Academy Awards Oscar, will feature the films directed by two Iranian female filmmakers Ghasideh Golmakani and Narges Abyar.
Short Film News (SFN) -51st Humboldt Int'l Film Fest will take place from April 18th to 21st, 2018.
The call for entries for Humboldt is open to Animation, Documentary, Narrative and Experimental films premiered after January 2013, with up to 30 minutes of total running time.
Short Film News (SFN) -The 16th Dhaka International Film Festival screen a lineup of 30 Iranian movies in various sections. Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Amir-Yusefi is one of the jury members. Fatemeh Motamed Aria and Nazanin Keinajad give two speeches for the fourth Dhaka International Conference which will be organized in association with the Department of Women and Gender Studies, University of Dhaka.
Short Film News (SFN) -Iranian director Kianoush Abedi will serve as a jury member at the 2nd Les Film de la Toile Festival.
The second Les Film de la Toile Festival which is celebrated by students in Paris, France has invited Iranian director and animator Kianoush Abedi to serve as a jury member in the festival.
Short Film News (SFN) -Two Iranian short films have received tickets to the competition section of Diseases International Short Film and Art Festival (FICAE) to be held in Spain.
Tonight directed by Rana Safiyari as well as Shirin Gharedaghi’s Mom and Dad are the two short films which will represent Iran in the fourth edition of FICAE.
Short Film News (SFN) -The 30th Minimalen Short Film Festival has dedicated two programmes to Iranian cinema with a panel of thirteen shorts . “Iran Now” aims to draw attention to women filmmakers in Iran, and to the relative gender equality found in Iranian film production.
Short Film News (SFN) - 12 Iranian feature & short films are participating in the 16th edition of Third Eye Asian Film Festival in Mumbai.
Antonio Santini and Dan Sickles’ documentary “Dina” has won the International Documentary Association’s award for top feature of 2017.
Short Film News (SFN) -The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 10 live action short films will advance in the voting process for the 90th Academy Awards. A record 165 pictures had originally qualified in the category.
Short Film News (SFN) -Iranian short ‘Birthday Night’ directed by Omid Shams has won a ticket to the 40th Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival.
‘Birthday Night’ which is written and directed by Omid Shams tells the story of two friends and business partners, Ahmad and Ali, who face unexpected challenges on their birthday night.
Short Film News (SFN) -Two panels with a total of six jurors from Italy, France, South Africa, Thailand and Iran will be judging the documentaries in the international completion at the 11th Cinema Verite, the major Iranian international festival documentary cinema that opens tomorrow, the organizers announced on Friday.
Short Film News (SFN) - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that the field of Documentary Short Subject contenders for the 90th Academy Awards has been narrowed to 10 films, of which 5 will earn Oscar nominations.
Short Film News (SFN) -The Black Nights Film Festival announced that the Russian film critic and festival’s programmer Igor Gouskov has passed away.
Gouskov, who lived in Paris in recent years, died because of a brain tumor.
Short Film News (SFN) -The 16th Third Eye Asian Film Festival to be held between 14-21 Dec 2017 in Mumbai is calling for entries.
Marziyeh Riahi (SFN)- Uberto Pasolini, Italian director and producer was one of the seven members of the jury who judged fifteen short films in the International competition of 35th Fajr International Film Festival. Pasolini has BAFTA and Venice award among a long list of other awards he has so far won. As he was very busy with the festival during his stay in Tehran, we had to do the interview on short films of the festival by e-mail.
Short Film News (SFN) - Iranian short film “Heyvan” (AniMal) written and directed by Bahram and Bahman Ark, students at the Iranian National School of Cinema snagged the Second Jury Prize at Cannes Cinefondation.
Short Film News (SFN) -Iran’s Documentary and Experimental Film Center announced on Sunday that “Noruz in Tajikistan”, one of its productions directed by Mehdi Bemani, won the award for best music at the Archaeology Channel International Film and Video Festival.
Short Film News (SFN) -The announcement of the 2017 Official Selection will begin with the short films Competition and the Cinéfondation Selection, in the run-up to the press conference for the 70th Festival de Cannes, to be held on Thursday April14th.
Short Film News (SFN) -The 39th edition of Cinema du réel unveils its films in competition.
Short Film News (SFN) - 23 films from 19 countries will be competing for the Golden and the Silver Bear as well as the Audi Short Film Award, worth € 20,000, and a nomination for the European Film Awards at the 2017 edition of Berlinale Shorts.
Short Film News (SFN) -The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences on Tuesday announced its shortlist of 15 documentary features.
The documentary branch determined the shortlist from a pool of 145 submissions and will select the five nominees to be announced on January 24.
Short Film News (SFN) -Four Iranian short films will compete in the 57th International Brno Sixteen Film Festival in Czech Republic.
Short Film News (SFN) -Iranian short movie 'Shadows in Town', directed by Shahriar Pourseyyedian, won the Best Short Film Award at Auburn International Festival of Children and Young Adults in Australia.
Short Film News (SFN) -The world-renowned Italian documentarian Gianfranco Rosi has been invited to attend the 10th edition of Cinema Verite, the Iranian international festival for documentary films, which will be held in Tehran from December 4 to 11.
Short Film News (SFN) -The 15th Third Eye Asian Film Festival to be held between 15-22 Dec 2016 in Mumbai is calling for entries.The festival has competition sections: First \ Second Feature Film by Director; and Short Film Fiction Competition.
Short Film News (SFN) -14th International FIKE Short Film Festival will take place from October 25th to 29rd, 2016.
Short Film News (SFN) - The Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury headed by Naomi Kawase, has awarded the 2016 Cinéfondation Prizes during a ceremony held in the Buñuel Theatre, followed by the screening of the winning films.
Short Film News (SFN) -The announcement of the 2016 Official Selection will begin with the short films Competition and the Cinéfondation Selection, in the run-up to the press conference for the 69th Festival de Cannes, to be held on Thursday 14th April.
Short Film News (SFN) -In 2015, Un Certain Regard opened in poetic fashion with Sweet Bean (An) by Naomi Kawase. The Festival de Cannes is honoured to announce that the Japanese director will preside the Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury for its 69th edition.
Short Film News (SFN) -The award winners for 2016 Sundance Film Festival were announced at the top gathering for independent movies made outside of Hollywood's major studios
Short Film News (SFN) - Marjan Riahi’s Iranian Ninja is going to compete at the 11th Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival.
Short Film News (SFN) - The 14th Third Eye Asian Film Festival to be held between 24- 31 Dec 2015 in Mumbai is calling for entries.
Short Film News (SFN) - Regulations and call for 5th Khorshid Independent Short Film Festival is published.
A revealing new documentary about the mysterious and eccentric actor Marlon Brando, titled Listen to Me Marlon, premieres later this month.
Short Film News (SFN) -The Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury headed by Abderrahmane Sissako and including Cécile de France, Joana Hadjithomas, Daniel Olbrychski and Rebecca Zlotowski, has awarded the 2015 Cinéfondation Prizes .
Short Film News (SFN) -Albert Maysles, who collaborated along with his late brother David in a documentary career that included the troubling 1970 concert film Gimme Shelter, has died. He was 88.
The oncology "community" is apparently jumping at the chance to show support for documentary filmmaker Ken Burns' latest PBS project -- a 6-hour film examining the history of cancer.
Short Film News (SFN) - In 2014, the internationally acclaimed Timbuktu caused the greatest emotion among the films in Competition at the Festival de Cannes.
This year, Mauritanian director Abderrahmane Sissako returns for the 68th Festival (13-24 May), where he will serve as President of the Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury.
Short Film News (SFN) -Heather Croall, the CEO and festival director of Sheffield Doc/Fest, is to step down after nine years in the role.
Croall will leave the documentary festival in mid-February and return to Australia, where she will take up the position of CEO and festival director of the Adelaide Fringe Festival.
Short Film News (SFN) - Iran is planning to hold a Resistance Film Festival and workshop in the Indian capital city of New Delhi.
Short Film News (SFN) -The 8th edition of the Iranian international festival for documentary films, Cinéma Vérité, has released the names of award winners.
Short Film News (SFN) -Leading Iranian female filmmaker Rakhshan Bani-Etemad has garnered award for her film The Tales at the 8th Asia Pacific Screen Award (APSA).
Bani-Etemad took one of the two jury grand prizes of the festival held in Australia.
Short Film News (SFN) -Sundance Institute announced the program of short films selected to screen at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, January 22 to February 1. This year, 60 short films selected from 8,061 submissions.