Bagh Dad Bar Ber 35mm. 12 mins. Color. Arabic With English Subtitles. 2008. Directed by: Massoud Bakhshi Screenplay: Massoud Bakhshi, Peyman Maadi Photography: Alimohammad Ghasemi Art Director: Mahmoud Bakhshi Editor: Azad Jafarian Sound: Frashid Faraji Executive Producer: Farhad Babaee Cast: Adnan Shahtalaee, Danesh Eghbashavi, Majed Neisi, Jamal Nanavar, Maysam Bakhshi, Hossein Khamseh, Pouria Fallah, Saleh Akbari, Javad Abedin, Farhad Babaee, Mehdi Khodaveici, Amir Alizadeh Produced by: DEFC, BON GAH, Massoud Bakhshi Synopsis: A Baghdad barber has to pay the price for what he most desires. Awards: Best Fiction Prize in Tempere International Film Festival March 2009 Festivals: World Premiere - 61st Locarno Inetrnational Film Festival. Leopards of Tomorrow competition. International Competition, 38th ROTTERDAM International Film Festival, Short: As Long As It Takes, Netherlands, January 2009 International Competition of 31st CLERMONT FERRAND International Short Film Festival, France, February 2009 26th Miami International Film Festival, Shorts Competition, March 2009 17th Art Film International Festival, June, 2009 Slovak Republic. International Competition. 32 th Norwegian Short Film Festival ,July 2009 Norway. International Competition. 16th Granada International Short film Festival ,Oct.2009 Spain . International Competition. 13th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival-July 2009 Int'l Competition, South Korea 8th Best of Short Films Festival Sep. 2009 Int'l Competition, France 7th Signes De Nuit short film festival, June 2009 Int'l Competition, France VILLAGES IN SHORT MoliseCinema Film Festival 2009, August 2009. Int'l Competition, Italy

Tehran Has No More Pomegranates!

35mm. 68 mins. Color/B&W. Farsi With English Subtitles.

Tehran is a large village near the city of Rey, full of gardens and fruit trees.  Its inhabitants live in anthill-like underground holes.  The village’s several districts are constantly at war.  Tehranis’ main occupations are theft and crime, though the king pretends they are subject to him.  They grow excellent fruits, notably an excellent pomegranate, which is found only in Tehran.

- Asar-o-Lblab, 1241 A.D.

Awards

• Winner: Best Director, 11th House of Cinema Film Festival, 2007, Iran;
• Winner: Best Director, 25th Fajr Int. Film Festival, 2007, Iran;
• Winner: AVINI Prize for Best Documentary of the year 2007, Iran;
• Winner: Audience Award, CINEMA VERITE International Documentary Film Festival, 2007 Iran.
• Nominated for: Cinema Eye Award for Best Documentary Film, IFC 2009

 

Festivals

• 36th Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Netherlands
• 20th International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam IDFA 2007
• 51st Cork International Film Festival, Ireland
• 30th Sao Paulo International Film Festival, Brazil
• 1001 Istanbul Documentary Film Festival, Turkey 2007
• Drake International Film Festival, Italy 2007
• 13th Boston Festival of films from Iran, USA
• CINEMA-VERITE International documentary film festival, Iran 2007
• Cinema East Film Festival, NY, USA 2007
• Doc Point Helsinki International  Film Festival 2007
• Ecocinema International Film Festival, Greece 2008
• Human Rights International Film Festival, Switzerland 2008
• UCLA Iranian Film Festival, USA 2008
• Hot Docs International Documentary Festival, Canada 2008
• Planete Doc Review International Film Festival , Poland 2008
• "Jeu de pomme" International film festival,France 2007
• "Well-played" Iran-Arab Film Festival,Germany 2008
• Full Frame International Documentary Film Festival USA 2008
• "Flandres" International Film Festival Gent-Belgium 2008
• 15th Alt?nkoza Film, Culture and Art Festival, Turkey 2008
• Santiago International Film Festival SANFIC 2008 "Jewels of Middle- East," Chile
• Morelia International Film Festival 2008, Mexico.
• San Luis Cine International Festival Competition, Argentina, November 2008
• Move Media Right Festival. Thailand, December 2008
• Edinburgh: Filmhouse Cinema, January 2009
• Portland International Film Festival, Competition, 2009
• All Roads International Film Festival, USA, Competition, 2009
• DOX BOX International Documentary Film Festival, March 2009, Syria
• International Urban Film Festival, March 2009, Iran
• Tribeca Film Center, July 2009, USA
• "A Man's Shadow" Film Festival Int'l Competition. November 2009, New Caledonia
• AAA/SVA Film, Video and Multimedia Festival Int'l Competition. December 2009, Philadelphia, USA
• New voices of Iran, Lincoln Center, December 2009, NY, USA

 

http://edendale.typepad.com/weblog/2008/04/hot-docs-2008-1.html
http://stillinmotion.typepad.com/still_in_motion/2008/05/interview-masso.html
http://www.tehranavenue.com/article.php?id=830
http://www.powerofculture.nl/en/current/2007/november/tehran
http://www.parsarts.com/2008/11/03/massoud-bakhshi-interview/

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