THE SAHAR INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM

FESTIVAL 2024 EDITION 11

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Welcome to The Sahar International Short Film Festival 2024.
We have reached the announcement time. We are proud to present 28 short films, each with a great story to tell. Brave filmmakers whose stories sometimes came from personal dreams or nightmares and sometimes inspired by the surrounding environment or noble and honest narrators for the ancient legends of their land to introduce us to the unwritten culture and secrets of this vast world. Please accept our thanks.
This year, among the 28 selected films, we have carefully reviewed the films whose production has ended the current year or were from the premiere films section. It was difficult to select the best film of the festival, that's the reason we postponed it to the day of screening on October 26. The selected films along with the trailers of all official selection films will be screened to the public from 14:00 to 16:00 in the cultural hall of the Oldham Library: "Performance Space".
It is not mandatory to pay for the ticket to attend this event but to reserve your seat, please contact the Sahar Festival email address. We will be very grateful and proud of your company.
President & Festival management team
Mandana, Sahar Ansari

به جشنواره بین المللی فیلم کوتاه سحر 2024 خوش آمدید

.به زمان اعلام رسمی فیلم های منتخب امسال رسیدیم.

ما مفتخریم که 28 فیلم کوتاه را ارائه می کنیم که هر کدام داستانی شگفت برای گفتن دارند. فیلمسازان شجاعی که داستانشان گاه برگرفته از رویاها یا کابوس های شخصی و گاه برگرفته از محیط اطراف است و یا راویانی نجیب و صادق هستند برای افسانه های کهن سرزمینشان تا ما را با فرهنگ نانوشته و رازهای این دنیای پهناور

آشنا کنند. لطفا تشکر ما را بپذیرید

امسال در بین 28 فیلم منتخب، تنها بخش

فیلم های پریمیر یا فیلم هایی که تولیدشان در سال

جاری به پایان رسیده است, مورد بازنگری قرار گرفت. انتخاب بخش فیلم های بهترین جشنواره, برای ما دشوار بود به همین دلیل آن را به تاریخ اکران یعنی۲۶ اکتبر سال جاری موکول کردیم. فیلم های برگزیده به همراه تریلر تمامی فیلم ها از ساعت 14 تا 16 عصر در سالن فرهنگی کتابخانه اولدهام به نمایش عموم در خواهد آمد. پرداخت بلیت حضور در این مراسم اجباری نیست اما برای رزرو صندلی خود لطفا با آدرس ایمیل SaharFestival2024@gmail.com

جشنواره سحر تماس حاصل فرمایید.

از شرکت شما بسیار سپاسگزار و مفتخر خواهیم بود

تیم مدیریت جشنواره

ماندانا، سحر انصاری

Bio:
Ahmad is an award-winner director. He is a cinematographer. He studied at Dar al Kalem. He holds two grand
Prizes, one of them for Best Documentary at the Sous International Festival. The other prize is for & quot; Best Short Documentary & quot; at the Karama Festival of Human Rights.
Films. In addition, he works in the film industry and production independently. He worked on directing and producing many short films. His interest is in the Human cases, while he believes in the power of the camera as an advocate to deliver the voice of unfortunate people. He also believes that the key to success is hidden in the team
work.

Bio:
Born in Orleans (FRANCE). October 12th. 1968. Audiovisual studies at RENNES. Animated short film. (Drawings): THE DRUNKEN BOAT (1994- 3MN). TEARS OF THE LITTLE PRINCE (1996 - 8MN). FLOWERS and BUTTERFLIES (1998. 6MN). THE POEM OF THE SEA (2004.16mn). A MUSICAL LIFETIME Allegro (2004. 3mn). THE FOREST OF THE HONEY BEES (Nov 2023- 20mn).

Biography:
Mohamad is 32 years old. He has graduated in economics. He is a short story writer.

Biography: Takayuki Yoshikawa is a visionary filmmaker and a respected associate professor at Nagoya Zokei University, with a
profound background in art, 3DCG, and animation. His journey in digital art began at an art university, where he studied
filmmaking and 3DCG, setting the stage for a remarkable career spanning over two decades. Yoshikawa's expertise was honed at Square
Enix, where for 20 years, he played a pivotal role in designing the iconic 3DCG for the Final Fantasy series, blending technology with
storytelling in groundbreaking ways.
Transitioning from the gaming industry to academia, Yoshikawa has dedicated the last seven years to nurturing the next generation of
creatives while continuing his exploration into independent animation projects. His directorial debut, & quot; Departure," is a testament to his
belief in the transformative power of art and technology, reflecting a deeply personal journey yet resonating with universal themes of
change and resilience.

Helia is a young artist with great ideas. She experienced many different kinds of fine arts but filmmaking is her passion. "I am who I am" is her expression.

Fidae Sbaai, a Moroccan filmmaker born in 1988 in Tangier.
A Professional Degree in Cinema at ECAT - Etudes Cinématographiques et Audiovisuelles de
Tétouan - at the University of Abdel-Malik Essaadi in 2011.
And an Advanced French Language Diploma DALF C1 from the French Institute of Tangier- Tetouan in Morocco.

Biography:
Quinceañera Davis is a dedicated and multi-faceted artist whose work exemplifies a commitment to excellence and depth, intended to encourage, inspire, and uplift, personally and collectively.

Bio: In love with Lebanon for more than a decade, Matthieu Haag never ceases to show images of his adopted country to the whole world: films, photo exhibitions, and conferences. In 2013, he directed AScentt of Lebanon, which finds its roots in the city of Beirut. Screened several times in Lebanon, the film has been selected for more than 40 international festivals and received 5 awards. Meanwhile, Matthieu released his first feature film in cinema theatres in 2019, The Orphanage, a film that was acclaimed by critics, selected (notably Vision du réel in Nyon, Switzerland) and awarded at several international festivals. He also directed short films, many times selected and awarded (see filmography). Today, he stubbornly continues his work on Lebanon, documenting the growing difficulties of this society which nothing seems to be able to oppose. Today, the Lebanese are facing an economic, health, and political crisis. He regularly returns to Lebanon to bring back snapshots. His new film, Inheritance, puts humans at the center of the country’s complex issues. Inheritance has already received 23 awards in international festivals around the world. 2023: Six Feet Under, fiction (17 minutes). 2022: Inheritance, fiction (18 minutes). 2020: Thumbs East, radio documentary series (5*14 minutes). 2019: Starlight, CM fiction (7'30). 2017: The Orphanage, documentary (70 minutes). 2014: A scent of Lebanon, fiction (13 minutes). 2012: An inventory, fiction (9 minutes). 2007: Isolation, documentary (19 minutes).

Biography: Designer, Associate Director of the Agency Si | Studio irresistible - Paris, with J. Liniger and Chloé Verlag, he has been directing the Si agency in Paris since 2009. He is an expert in digital communication, data visualization, motion design, and projects related to research and science.

He supports companies and institutions, particularly on issues of ecological transition and CSR. He is in contact with leading international

players on the subjects of climate change and sustainable development initiatives, and was notably an official observer at COP24.

His course in Applied Arts and Interior Architecture in Caen continued in Paris, in graphic arts and multimedia, at the Institute of Higher

Studies in the Arts.

Expert in questions of mental manipulation, he has been working since 2007 as a consultant with State services, in particular, MIVILUDES,

as well as with NGOs (CAFFES, UNADFI, CCMM, etc.) on the links between mental influence and communication. . As part of his research

on issues of human rights and freedom of expression, he studied law at the University of La Sorbonne in Paris.

Since 2011, he has been part of the international collective of visual artists "The Meeting Point Project", exhibited in Paris, New York and

Beijing. Since 2017, his work as a photographer has also been articulated within the "Formats" collective, with the choreographer A.

Roques.

Nicolas Jacquette is co-founder of the Press & Cartooning Global Forum, an international meeting on the relationship between Press

Cartooning and Democracy. He was awarded, with J. Liniger, the "Gérard Vandenbroucke Prize" 2021 for the promotion of press cartooning in the world and the defense of freedom of expression.

In 2023, he was awarded 10 international design prices for his graphic work for the French Presidency of the European Union Council in 2022.

Those who pass by Santa Clara ( Azores ) can contemplate the view of sparkling strings in the same tone as the
reflection of fish in the sea. But these strings move on the earth. Those who build them are also on land but
they live to the rhythm of the sea. Human hands mark the compass with the nature that surrounds them. They
play with their strings from the sea to the land and with the wind, they dance together the same melody.
An example of the unconscious music present all around us. The sounds and rhythms of daily activities,
animals and nature that, when united, form a harmonious melody.

Press Statement

Year of Production.: 2023
Duration: 14'14''
Country: France

Biography: Rubén Tadeo is a young entrepreneur passionate about cinema. From a very young age, he created low-budget
short films. As the CEO of his advertising company, he continues to direct short films out of love for the craft. His latest projects are more
ambitious. After several horror/comedy shorts, he has completed his most serious and personal project, which took him two years of
work: Leonor.

Bio: A French traveler and filmmaker passionate about discoveries and adventures, always
with a camera in hand. A director of diverse films, specializing in experimental documentaries.
“LOGBOOK-Extract 1” is a new experimental documentary short film project. This French-Paraguayan
production explores personal questions, doubts, and adventures in a journey that is as much physical as it is
spiritual.
Filmography:
• 2024 - Documentary Short Film "Il CAT": Focuses on the Harmonic Therapeutic Center in
Campogalliano (Italy); currently in post-production.
• 2019 - Experimental Documentary Short Film "Blossom": Finalist at the First-Time Filmmaker
Sessions (Hollywood) and 16days16films (London) festivals | An artistic and feminist co-production centered
on sexual violence.
• 2018 - Dual Documentary and Reportage Creation "November 20, 2018": On multiple disabilities, in
collaboration with the Perce-Neige House (Bois-Colombes).
• 2013 - Short Film "The Wind Took Them Away": Winner of the Special Mention at the RLV Festival
(Bagnères-de-Bigorre) | A fiction film about grief.

Bio: His name is Gabriel, He is a 20-year-old filmmaker. He produced two short films: experimental and Horror Fiction.

Bio: Fernando G. Pliego Born in 1972, he works as a programmer, but combines his job with a regulated career as an amateur cineast since 2011. Graduated in Image and Sound at the Completeness University of Madrid in 1995, and he has been a camera operator in several Javier López Velasco shorts (Vivir Sunanda, Anstead Express). "Lu and The Ghost (Click)" is his twelfth short film. Among his previous works, the more important ones could be Do You Hear Me? (¿Me yes 2011), Family Portrait (Foto de familia, 2013), How do you like it? (¿Come the gusto, 2015), Desamor (Heartbreak, 2022) and, especially, The Ball (La pelota, 2017), best Euromerican Short in Ebertfest 2018 and Best International Short Film in XI Editioned Corto e Cultura Film Festival in Manfredonia, between other awards and more than 60 international selections.

Biography:
Born in Barquisimeto, Edo. Lara, a student at UNEARTE LARA, and at BARQUICINEMA, of which, as a director, his works stand out: LA MUJER MISTERIOSA, made in the UNEARTE Initial Path and
becoming an official selection in the regional shorts mentioned at the Barquisimeto Film Festival 2023,
and the short film EL BUENO EL MALO Y EL PERRO, made in the 2nd cohort of BARQUICINEMA,
screened in cinemas and is currently in the festival stage.

DUALITY is the most recent work of the director Jaime Arteaga Heredia, which is presented as a university project, aspiring to continue climbing at the cinematographic level and reach festivals and more people.

She is an award-winning Film Director. Follow Your Dream is one of her first film experiences.

Biography:
Born in 1986 in Angoulême (France), Florent Lahousse is a filmmaker and freelance post-production artist.

Passionate about cinema and imagination, his audiovisual background led him to co-create fan films and other cinematic singularities based on beloved universes.

As a co-director, co-screenwriter, visual effects supervisor, and artistic director for the humoristic collective Drop The LOL, he has also devoted his time to organizing film events and screenings.

With HUNTING GROUND, he directs his first dramatic genre short film, aiming to bring to life a project that is very close to his heart.

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In Alphabetical Order International Category (not Premiere Film)

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OFFICIAL SELECTION
Streaming
30th of September - 20th of December 2024: Free of charge
Congratulations to all Filmmakers who participated with us and officially selected for streaming and Screening.

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Year of Production.: 2024 Film (or Video)
Duration: 20 minutes
Country of production: Morocco
Language: No dialogue
Rat: +16

The First to leave
Animation Music Video
Director: Helia Kimono

Year and month of production: 2024 - January
Duration: 20 ‘
Production country: France
Language: French
Rate: All ages
Country: France

Year of production: 2022
Duration: 3’.12”
Production country:
Language: Arabic
Country: Palestine
Rate: suitable for all ages

Hunting Ground (Chasse Gardee)

Director: Florant Lahousse

Fiction, Suspense

Synopsis:

Thierry, a mysterious markets game pâté seller, leads a solitary and intriguing existence, always busy sculpting wooden creatures while maintaining an icy distance from his customers. However, this facade hides a dark secret: Thierry regularly transforms himself into a dreadful male predator, adorning his face with a bear mask mercilessly tracking down and eliminating hunters.

His relentless pursuit will lead him to an unexpected confrontation with a father and son, awakening demons from his past that he thought he had buried forever.

Thierry, a mysterious markets game pâté seller, leads a solitary and intriguing existence, always busy sculpting wooden creatures while maintaining an icy distance from his customers.

Year of Production: 2024
Duration: 19:43
Production Country: Spain
Rate: +12

This short creative film invites the audience to think of the meaning of life and how one photo could be expressed better than 1000 words. In this film, you will be faced with lost days in nostalgic childhood time

“I have found the sea,
A limitless ocean.

I have opened a treasury unending,
Its jewels blaze with the luster of a thousand thousand suns,
And they blaze here, in my soul.
All of a sudden,
Without any effort of my own,
I have heard the eternal Secret,
I have learned to know God.
Here in my life hath blossomed
The flower of perfect union”.

SYNOPSIS
This experimental documentary narrates the beginning of a journey and the thoughts it evokes, accompanying the protagonist on her odyssey. She leaves behind a life she loves to expatriate to the other side of the world, venturing into the unknown. This radical change brings with it doubts and questions, with the joy of discovery contrasting with uncertainties about the future.

Briefly, I would like to give an explanation about my field of work. What is the difference between art film and blockbuster and Hollywood films?
I express frankly that blockbuster and Hollywood movies are basically movies that are made with the purpose of box office and entertainment. Finding the audience and attracting them is a priority. Usually, blockbuster filmmakers prepared and produced their works in five famous studios of the Hollywood market. But an art film is a film for which the box office is not a priority. It has a special audience and the quality of the films is based on the poetic or art world. Films that have something to say and are usually screened at festivals. Their goal is not for the box office, that's why their film is very close to the filmmaker's world or point of view. They do not have huge studios with huge costs, and independent and emerging filmmakers always express themselves in the art house and art cinema.
An arthouse film is typically an independent film, aimed at a niche market rather than a commercial and mass market audience.

In one word: Cinematic events related to Hollywood movies are usually designed in such a way as to make a High earning potential. They have high production costs, with large marketing budgets, respectively. They work extensively on marketing, and the result of their work is simultaneous screening in thousands of cinemas around the world.

I personally wish great success for each one of the filmmakers who has an ambition to reach their goal for the art world or Hollywood blockbuster cinema.

Mandana

به طور مختصر مایل هستم که توضیحی در زمینه حیطه کاری خود ارایه دهم. به راستی فرق بین فیلم هنری با فیلم های بلاکباستر و هالیوودی در چیست؟ فیلم های بلاکباستر و هالیوودی اساسا فیلم هایی هستند که با هدف گیشه و سرگرمی ساخته می شوند. مخاطب و جذب آنان در اولویت است . معمولا این فیلم سازان مطرح و حرفه ای در پنج استودیوی معروف بازار هالیوود کارهای خود را تهیه و تولید می کنند. اما فیلم هنری فیلمی است که گیشه حرف اول را برایش نمی زند. مخاطب خاص دارد و کیفیت فیلم ها بر اساس نگاهی معناگرا و هنرمندانه ساخته می شود. فیلم هایی که حرفی برای گفتن دارند و در جشنواره ها معمولا اکران می شوند. هدفشان گیشه نیست به همین دلیل به دنیای فیلمساز بسیار نزدیک است. استودیوهای عریض و طویل با هزینه های هنگفت تولید ندارند و همیشه فیلمسازان مستقل و نوظهور کار خود را در خانه هنر و سینمای هنری به معرض دید همگان قرار می دهند.
یک فیلم هنری،معمولاً یک فیلم مستقل است که به جای مخاطبان بازار انبوه، یک بازار خاص را (اصطلاحا به آن طاقچه گفته می شود)هدف قرار می دهد
خلاصه کلام: رویدادهای سینمایی مربوط به فیلم های هالیوودی معمولا به گونه‌ای طراحی شده‌اند که پتانسیل درآمدزایی بالایی ایجاد کنند. آنها دارای هزینه های تولید بالا، با بودجه بازاریابی زیادی هستند. برروی مارکتینگ به طور گسترده کار می کنند و نتیجه کار آنها اکران همزمان در هزاران سینما در سراسر جهان است.

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Edition 11

Premiere Film:

A Foreign Way of Living

(Das Leben laut einem Ausserirdischen)

Director : Mau Aguilar

Genre: Fiction – Comedy

Year of Production: 2024

Duration: 09:52"

Country of production: German

Rate: For all ages

Duality (Dual dad)

Director: JAIME ARTEAGA HEREDIA

Genre: Social realism, Horror

Year of Production: 2024

Duration: 6 MINUTES 13 SECONDS

Country of Production Company: Venezuela

Premiere Film:

Follow Your Dream

Director: Mandana Ansari

Genre: Fiction, Drama

Year of Processing Production: 2012

Year of Final Production: 2016

Duration: 17:43"

Country of production: United Kingdom

Rate: +12

Human Trafficking (Tratar)

Director: David Andrade

Film Synopsis: It’s a fictional short film based on real events about how women are deceived into coming to Spain and then trafficked, phisicly and mentaly abused. This short film won the AIETI award in Castilla la Mancha, directed by David Andrade

Year of Production: 2024

Duration: 5 min

Country of production: Spain

Language: Spanish

Rate:+12

Premiere Film:

” Logbook - Extract 1”

("Journal de bord – Extrait 1”)

Director: Ethel H.Coussau

Genre: Experimental

Year of Production.: 2024 Film

Duration: 5’

Country of production: France / Paraguay

Language: French

Rate: All ages

Lu and The Ghost

(Lu y el fantasma)

Director: Fernando G. Pliego

Fiction

Year of Production: 2024

Duration: 19:43

Production Country: Spain

Rate: +12

Premiere Film:

Me (Man)

Director : Mohammad Ghamari

Synopsis: The film is about a young Iranian man who doesn’t know what to do about his life with many obstacles created by sanctions and the political situation in Iran. He wants to emigrate from Iran and go abroad but,,,.

Genre: Documentary

Year of Production.: 2024

Duration: 8:59”

Country Of Production: IRAN

Biography:

Mohamad is 32 years old. He has graduated in economics. He is a short story writer.

Perceidas

Director Name: Izhan Alcántara Pozo

Genre: Animation

Year of Production.: 2024

Duration: 14 mins
Country of production: SPAIN

Language: SPANISH (SUB ENGLISH)

Rate: For all ages

Premiere Film:

The Chamber (الشامبري)

Director : Fidae Sabaai

Year of Production.: 2024 Film (or Video)

Genre: Fiction

Duration: 20 minutes

Country of production: Morocco

Language: No dialogue

Rat: +16

The First to leave(Premiere at the time of submission)

Director: HELIAKIMONA (Helia Serrano Varela)

Synopsis: Made by HELIAKIMONA our Space Guiteau (The first to die) welcomes you. Where in the not-too-distant future... it could be any day in the life of any of us

Genre: Animation

Year of Production: 2023

Duration: 3:

Premiere Film:

The Forest Of Honey Bees

(La Foret Des Abeilles)

Director: Erwan Le Gal

Genre: Animation

Year of production: January 2024

Duration: 20 ‘

Production country: France

Language: French

Rate: All ages

Country: France

Premiere Film:

Warrior

Director: Quincy Davis

Music Video

Year of Production.: 2023

Film (or Video) Duration: 4:40

Country of production: USA

Bubble man Superstar Mission El Cobra

Director: Alban Gilly & Thierry Bonneau

Year of Production: 2023

Duration: 14'14''

Genre: Animation, Action, Narrative, comedy, fantasy

Country of Production: France

Rate: +12

Departure

Animation

Director : Takayuki Yoshikawa

Year of Production: 2023

Duration: 5m11s

Country of production: Japan

Rate: All

Language: English

Desamor (Heartbreak)

Director: Fernando G. Pliego

Year of production: 2022

Duration: 18:39

Country: Spain

Rate: For all ages

El Jarocho

Director: Patricia Zambrano Solorzano and Ruben Delgado Roque

Genre: Documentary

Duration: 12'58''

Production country: Mexico

Year of Production: 2019

Rate: +12

Fragile

Director: Francisco Hervada Martin

Genre: Fiction, Comedy

Year of Production.: 2022

Duration: 07 MIN

Language: SPANISH

Rate: All ages

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OFFICIAL SELECTION Streaming 30th of September - 20th of December 2024: Free of charge Congratulations to all Filmmakers who participated with us and officially selected for streaming and Screening.

The Sahar Film Festival 2024 Flyer

Edition 11

OFFICIAL SELECTION
Streaming
30th of September - 20th of December 2024: Free of charge
Congratulations to all Filmmakers who participated with us and officially selected for streaming and Screening.