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THE SAHAR INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM

FESTIVAL 2024 EDITION 11

00:00 / 04:02

UntoldStories

EVERYONE Has Been INVITED
Ticket is Free Of Charge

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, But with a lot of effort, Seven films were selected from the  premiere category submitted films. "Follow Your Dream" was not judged because the filmmaker was actually the jury of the festival. Therefore honestly, she withdrew her participation from the competition category in favor of other filmmakers. 
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.

Presidents & Festival Management Team:

MartinGleeson

 Mandana and Sahar Ansari

به جشنواره بین المللی فیلم کوتاه سحر 2024

خوش آمدید.

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به زمان اعلام رسمی فیلم های منتخب امسال رسیدیم. ما مفتخریم که 28 فیلم کوتاه منتخب را از بین فیلم های ارسالی برگزیدیم 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 پهناورآشنا کنند.  لطفا تشکر ما را بپذیرید

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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 اما با تانی بسیار بالاخره هفت فیلم انتخاب شد. فیلم رویای خود را دنبال کن مورد داوری قرار نگرفت چون فیلمساز در واقع همان داور جشنواره بود. پس صادقانه از حیطه بخش رقابتی انصراف داد. و اما 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

مارتین، ماندانا و سحرخانم انصاری

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  Please  visit this website only by laptop or Desktop computer.  Thank you 

Joint Award  for  best Fiction Film

Best of Fest

 Award  for Best Documentary

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 Award  for Best Poetic Film

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 Joint Award  for Best Fiction Film

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Warrior

Director: Quincy Davic

Joint Award  for

Best Music Video

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Thank you to Los Gloster Team

Director by Helia Serano Varela

First To Leave(Die) 

Award For Best Animation Film:

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The Forest of Honey Bees

Director: Erwan Le Gal

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Human Trafficking

Director:

David Andrade

Press Statement
 

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  In Alphabetical Order None - Competition Category (not Premiere Film)

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.

  Please  visit this website only by laptop or Desktop computer.  Thank you  

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   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 prepare and produce 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 film 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 resources, 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 total: 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.

But sometimes their films are empty of meaning and are only made for entertainment to satisfy what they assume to be ordinary people's taste in order to guarantee their box office and budget at any cost. But the artistic filmmaker looking for questions and asking for humane answers, he or she has the idea of ​​changing the world for the better, and he or she is basically an idealistic human who encourages the audience to think after the end of the film. His or her film shows a hidden corner of  dilemmas and problems of human societies, damage and vulnerable people's life story is usually a prominent part of their films, which is ignored by the Hollywood film industry and the commercial world, and this indeed reflects the micro and macro social, economic and political results of the governments' political policies.

   Anyway, I personally respect all emerging and talented Filmmakers who are looking for an experience and wish great success for each one of you who has an ambition to reach their goal for the art world or Hollywood blockbuster and famous cinema.

Mandana Ansari

به طور مختصر مایل هستم

که توضیحی در زمینه حیطه کاری خود ارایه دهم.
به راستی فرق بین فیلم هنری با

فیلم های پرفروش (بلاکباستر) و هالیوودی در چیست؟
فیلم های  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 تولیدمی 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، شعرگونه وهنرمندانه 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 باهزینه های هنگفت تولید ندارند و همیشه فیلمسازان مستقل و نوظهور کار خود را در خانه هنر و سینمای هنری به معرض دید همگان قرارمی 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
در مجموع: 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 اما گاهی فیلم هایشان از معنا تهی است و تنها به گونه ای برای سرگرمی ساخته می شوند که با ذایقه عامه پسند همسو باشند تا گیشه و بودجه خود را به هر قیمتی تامین کنند خود را در قبال جامعه مسوول نمی دانند و مرزشان تنها قوانین کشوری است تا از آسیب حقوقی و حقیقی مصون بمانند.اما فیلمساز هنری به دنبال طرح سوال است وپاسخ های  انسانی درخواست  می کند، در سر اندیشه تغییر جهان را به نحوی مطلوب دارد و اساسا انسانی آرمانگراست که مخاطب را پس از پایان فیلم خود به تعقل وامی دارد فیلم او گوشه ای پنهان از معضلات جوامع بشری، آسیب ها و داستان زندگی افراد
آسیب پذیر را نشان می دهد که معمولاً بخشی برجسته از فیلم های آنهاست که صنعت فیلم سازی تجاری هالیوودی، آن را نادیده می گیرد و دنیای کاسبکار سخت به آن بی  توجه است وبه نوعی این آسیب ها خود انعکاس و بازخورد سیاست گذاری های خرد و کلان اجتماعی، اقتصادی وسیاسی دولت ها است . به هر حال من به شخصه برای تمامی فیلمسازان نوظهوری که با یک دنیا امید و آرزو قدم در راه فیلمسازی گذشته اند آرزوی پیشرفت و موفقیت دارم. خواه آنها را در دنیای فیلم هنری ثابت قدم ببینم یا درخشان بر عرصه پرده های عریض و طویل دنیای هالیوود.

 

ماندانا انصاری 

Edition 11

Edition 11

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 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

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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

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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,,,.

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Genre: Documentary

Year of Production: 2024

 Duration: 8:59”

Country Of Production: IRAN

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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

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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(The First To Die)(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

 None Competition Category 

 

 

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

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Desamor (Heartbreak)

Director:  Fernando G. Pliego

Year of production: 2022

Duration: 18:39

Country: Spain

Rate: For all ages

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El Jarocho

Director: Patricia Zambrano Solorzano and Ruben Delgado Roque

Genre: Documentary

Duration: 12'58''

Production country: Mexico

Year of Production: 2019

Rate: +12

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Fragile

Director: Francisco Hervada Martin

Genre: Fiction, Comedy

Year of Production.: 2022

 Duration: 07 MIN

Language: SPANISH

Rate: All ages

Country of production: SPAIN

 

Hunting Ground (Chasse Gardee)

Director: Florant Lahousse

Fiction, Suspense

Duration: 14’:17’’

2023

France

Immaculate (Inmaculada) 
Director Name: John Petrizzelli

​Duration: 12 '
Year of Production: 2022
Country of production: Spain
Language: no dialogue Rate: + 12

Infinity

Director: Milan Zulic
Experimental
Year of Production: 2022
Duration:  6.'
Country: Switzerland
Rate: All ages​

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Inheritance (L'Héritage)

Director: Matthew Haag

Year of Production: 2022 - January 

Genre: Fiction, social realism, Art Film 

Duration: 18 minutes 

Production country: France, Lebanon

 Language: Arabic 

Content rating: Suitable for all audiences
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Leonor

 ​Director: Ruben Tadeo

Animation

Year of Production: 2023

Duration: 14 '

Country of production: Spain

 Rate: +13

Macumba

Christian Femena I Reverte

Fiction

Year of Production.: 2023

Duration: 10 MINUTES

Country of production: SPAIN

 Language: SPANISH-BISIO

(African language)

Rate: All ages

​​Genre: Fiction

Theme: Family, Immigration

My Crutch (عکازتی)

Director: Ahmad Tariq Hamad

Year of production: 2022

 Duration: 3’.12”

Language: Arabic

 Country: Palestine

Rate: suitable For all ages
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Six Feet Under (Six pieds sous terre)

Director: Matthiew Haag​​

Genre: Fiction

 Year and month of production: 2023 - March 

Duration: 17 ‘ 

Production country: France 

Language: French Country: France

 Rate: All ages

30 Years of Ice

Director : Gabriel Cuny

 Genre: Experimental, fictional adventure short film

Year of Production.:2023

Duration: 15 min

Country of production: France

Language: English

Rate: No explicit content​

Tickling The Earth

(Cócegas na Terra)

Director: Mj, Sousa (Maria João Sousa)

Genre: Documentary, Experimental, Educational, environment, Art Film

Year and month of production: April 2023 

 Duration: 15 ‘

 Production country: Portugal

 Language: Portuguese

 Country: Portugal

Rate: Suitable for all audience

"رجفة " Tremors

Director Name: Nicolas Jacquette

 Animation

It is carried out in the Moroccan Native Amazigh Tifinagh language and inspired by the Amazigh graphic culture of the Middle Atlas of Morocco.

Year of Production.: 2023

Duration: 7 min 42 sec.

Country of production: Morocco, France, Switzerland

Language: Audio narration available in Tifinagh/Tachlit (Moroccan Berber native language), Darija Arabic, and French.

 Rate: +12

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26th of Oct 2024: 2-4 PMOldham Library, Performance Space

How to get there:

Library Address

Oldham,

Cultural Quarter,  OL1 1AL 

Oldham Library

(Performance Space)
Near to Oldham Sainsbury

Metro link Trams run from Manchester  to Rochdale through Oldham Town Centre, the nearest tram stop is Oldham Central only 2minute walk from there.

Performance space is on the right hand side of reception​

 

(This is an independent event

Please do not call Oldham Library)


Tel : 07543557034

SaharFestival2024@gmail.com

Ticket is Free of charge

Films are suitable for all age ,with parental guidance

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ROLL OF HONOUR 

   All the Films which have been selected, streamed or screened at    

    The Sahar International Short Film Festival 

 

2023

Dammi

Director: Yann Demange , Duration time:16' - France – 202​3

KEEP

Director: Lewis Rose - 2023 - France / UK , Duration time:21'

LEMON TREE

Director: Rachel Walden - 2023 - USA , Duration time: 17

Nada De Todo Esto

Director: Patricio Martínez and Francisco Cantón - 2023 - ARGENTINA / SPAIN / USA , Duration time: 17'

FÁR

Director: Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter - 2023 - Iceland , Duration time: 5'

TITS

Director: Eivind Landsvik - 2023 - Norway, Duration time:12’

Auxiliaire (Caregiver) 

Director:  Lucas Bacle - 2022 - France, Duration time: 24'

FAIRPLAY - Zoel Aeschbacher - Switzerland- France Duration time: 15' – 2022

SAME OLD

 Director:  Llyod Lee Choi - 2022 - USA/Canada , Duration time: 15

SCALE

Director:   Joseph Pierce - 2022 - France / UK / Belgium , Czech Republic  , Duration time:15'

2022

- Divorce, director: Alberto Rivas - 8’- Spain

Children of May, director: Dani Solaguren Ruiz -19:00 - Spain 

- Under the Blade, director: Javid Farahani -15:00 -IRAN​​

- Inhospitable, director: Melissa Bolanos Carabali - 07:00 – Colombia

 - The Soil, director: Amir Hossein Basir - 21:05 – IRAN

- Tides, director: Thais Helena Leite - 16:00 – Spain

- Ad 1202, director: Tomislav Gregl -19:00-Spain

- The Grandmother, director: Maria Del Carmen -18:00 -Spain

- Ebony, Cedar and Mahogany, director: Nora Seilicovich -10:00 -Argentina

- Children of the Sun, director: Quincy Davis - 05:00 - USA

- Our Own Ceylon, director: Sergio Luis Garcia -14:34- Sri Lanka

- Salem, director: Sophie Beaulieu- 15:00 - France

​​​​​​- Free Flow, director: Sam Mir Hosseini- 29:00 – France

- The Road to Success - Director: Fernando G. Pliego - 16:00 - Spain

- The Song of Crazy Ralph, director: Alfonso Desentre - 07:00 - Spain

- Just because you didn't Film me, director: Astrid Askberge - 05:00 - Sweden

 - Degradation, director: Carlos Trindade - 02:00- Portugal

- Shooting Stars, director: Karina Valencia Gonzalez - 05:45 – Mexico(Animation)

- A Travers, director: Marine Herve - 20:00 - France

- The Passion of Alexander, director: Rikki Beadle Blair - 04:58 - UK

- Homecoming, director: Selena Pizarro Gomes - 29:00 - Spain

- The Art and The Way, director: Tatiany Furuse - 15:00 - Brazil 

 - The Road, director: Henry Dasca Bravo (Los Glosters team)- 02:24 - Spain​

- "The Lens", director: Aashit Chatterjee - 05:00- India

​- "Tina" (La Cuarta Victima), director: Aleix Masferrer López - 16:00 – Spain

- Memories in three colors, director: Argenis Herrera Sanches -13:00 -Chile

- Flashbulb memories, director: Carlos Alberto – Matos Trindade - 03:00 – Portugal

​- “Fox & Penguin” Catharina Hamerle & Dave Lojek -13:00 -Germany

​"The Traveller (El viajero)"

Director: Gustavo Duc - 28:00 - Argentina

 Gemelos (Twins)

 Director; Javier Medina - 07:00 -Spain

" An untitled Christmas story (Cento de Navidad sin tituli) "

 Director: Mauricio Franco Tosso - 11:00 - Spain

Director: Quincy Davis:

Rebel Wise - Make it Through (Music Video) - 03:48 – USA

Rebel Wise - Make it Through (Documentary Short)- 03:48 – USA

  Lyla June - North Star feat. (Music Video) - 04:48- USA​

  Rebel Wise - Jewels (Music Video) - 08: 20 - USA

Atavistic (Atávico), director: Raul GUÍU LAPLAZA - 04:00 - Spain

Paper Carpenter (Carpinteria de Papal}, director: Renata Bueno and Daniel Medina -13:00 - Portugal

The escape of the century (Levison du siècle)-, director: Jacques Micke - 14:00 - France

 "Espresso Yourself", director: Raza Mallal - 06:57 - UK

“SOLARI”​, director: Sergio Luis Garcia Locatelli - 07:00 – Peru

 Bread of life (Pan de Vida) - 07:00 - Spain

The right vintage, director: Trace Winter- 04:00- United States

2021

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 2021 (Online streaming)

"About Her"

Premiere 2021 - January​

Director: Rabab Mrhege

Duration: 16'

Fantasy Drama

 Syria

"ElephantBird" (Filmnorgh) ​

Director: Masoud Soheili

Duration: 15'

2019 - January

Dark Comedy Drama from Afghanistan & Iran

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"t3mp0" 

Premiere​

Director: Marcio Riscado

 Duration: 8 ' 

2020 - Drama from Brazil

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"Deliverence" ​

Director: Denis Klein

 Duration: 9 '  

2021 Dance - Belgium

" The Forgotten" (منسيون - نسخة قصيرة) 

Premier

Director: TAREQ BADDAR

 Duration: 28' 

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The Sahar International Short Film Online Festival

8th Edition 2021

Documentary – Bangladesh: "Between the Shores (Zwischen den Ufern)"​

Director: Benjamin Lehmann - Duration: 28'- Drama  from Germany

 

"Distant Light"

Premiere 2021, director: Victor Luiz Riona, Duration: 4' - Drama - Spain

"The Drawning Goat" ​, director: Sebastian Johansson Micki

 Duration: 27'  - 2020 - Sci-Fi Drama - ​Sweden

 "It's better there" , Premiere - Director: Hasanain Alhani, Duration: 11' ​- 2020 Animation - Iraq

 

"A House in the Country" (UNA CASA EN EL CAMPO) ​, Premiere 

Director: Victor Cuadrado - Duration: 15' ​- 2019 Fiction Drama - Spain

 "Palace" ,  Premiere - Director: Prince Car, Matthieu Ponchel​

 Duration: 14' ​- 2019 Fiction Drama - France

 "Pizza - Black" , Director:: Fco Javier Medina Gonzalez 

 Duration: 15 - 2020 Drama - Spain 

 

"Abril" , Premiere - Director: Aleix Masferrer López

 Duration: 05' , 2020 Drama - Spain

 "Gracias" (Thanks) , director: Fco Javier Medina Gonzalez 

 Duration: 3' - 2020 ​Fiction - Spain

 "Mother Reflio" , director: Alex Masferrer Lopez

 Duration : 11 ' - 2019 Fiction Spain

"Recuerdos" (Memories),  Director: Fco Javier Medina Gonzalez

 Duration: 3' - 2020 Family- Spain

 

7_MINUTES , director: CHRISTIAN SCHNEIDER

 Duration : 08' - 2020- Crime -​Brazil

"Great Emptiness" - Director: Emre Dotter​

 Duration: 8 , 2020'  Turkey

 

"Stench " (Hedor) , director: Santiago Roger Gaddy

 Duration : 11' - 2019 Fiction- Argentina 

"And then? All the opposite"(Et Apres? Tout l'invers

Director: Samuel Bester- Duration: 5 '- 2020 Experimental - France

"The Puppeteer" ​, Premiere, director: Ruben Henges Bach

 Duration : 18' , ​2020 Animation - Children from Spain

 

 "Emillia" , director: Cristina Guillen

 Duration : 16':26''- 2020 Fiction - Spain​

"Mobius" ​, director: Francisco Hervada Martín

Duration :02'- 2020 Narrative - Spain

 

 "Today" Aujourd'hui, director: Francis Chillet

 Duration: 20' - 2020 Drama LGBT - France

"Clouds...Clouds",  Premiere, director: Carlos Alberto Matos Trindade- Duration : 1'' - 2018 Abstract -Portuga

"Fines", director: ÁNGEL SANTISTEBAN AZORÍN

 Duration: 8': 55'', 2020 surmystery -Spain

​​

 "Pig's Rock & Roll ", director:  Cleiton Cafeu 

 Duration : 4' - 2020 Animation, Children - Btazil

Prayer to the Earth( Oraco a Terra), director: Cleton Cafeu

 Duration: 04 minutes- 2019 Animation - Brazil

​​ "Boon" , director: Rajat Talukdar - Duration: 4' - 2019 Fiction , Children - India

"Eva's Comet" , director: Jd Shapiro Alfonso Alfolin, Duration: 22': 17'', Fiction – Italy​

 

 "The Son of The Sun" ​

Director: Saeed Fatemi​, Duration: 13' : 54'' - Biopic 2020 - UK

"The Divine Visions of Hildegard von Bingen" ​

Director: Paul Vernon - Duration: 10' : 44'' ​- 2019 -Experimental from UK

"Hate Dance" ​

Director: Beverley Callow - Duration: 15' - Women- Racism  Australia

 

 "Bars" ​

Director: Waleed Zedaney - Duration: 3 ', 02'' - 2020  from Palestine - Israel

"Decoys" 

Premiere​ , director: Jack Davies & Audrey Thevenin - Duration: 2 '- 2020 Narrative - UK

"Vacation" ​

Writer/Director: Jack Davies - Duration: 4:01 -2020 - Sci-Fi Drama - UK

 "What's Left" ​

Director: Jack Davies and Massimo Amici - Duration: 1.29'' - 2020 Sci-Fi Drama - UK

"Happy As Larry" 

Director: Ava Shacklady -  Duration : 16':26'' - 2020 Animation, Children - UK

​​​​    2020- 2019  

  • Synchronize

Director: Atena Mahmoudi

– IRAN

Audience: + 18

  • Hegmataneh  

Director: Ali Zarekar

– IRAN

Audience: + 15

​​

  • “2 to 4 WATCH “

Director:  Ali Zarekar  

- RAN

Audience: + 18

  • “Layers”

Director: Ankana Pal

– India

Audience: +15

​​

  • “Stop it”

Director: Sanaz Safaei

– Germany

Audience: + 18

​​

  • “Stop it”

Director: Sanaz Safaei

– Germany

Audience: + 18

​​

  • “MY FRIENDS”

Director: Richard Wan Kum Wah

- Singapore 

Audience: All ages particularly for Children

​​“That is the way to show the world”

Director: Richard Wan Kum Wah

- Singapore 

Audience: All ages particularly for Children

​​

  • “Café, Irani Chai”

Director: Prof. Mansoor Showghi Yezdi

– India

Audience: +15

  • Darjeeling – A Celebration of Solitude

Director: Amartya Bhattacharyya​

– India

Audience: All ages

​​

  • “Life in Lockdown”

Director: Eshan Harash

- India

Audience: All ages

​​“Jayadrath Vadh”  (The day he died)

Director: Abhijeet Sarthi

- India

Audience: + 15

​​​

  • “ Rishtey “

Director:  Mahesh Kapoor

- India

Audience: + 12

​​“Father of your Son” (AMA KA NG ANAK MO)  

Director: Romm Burlat

- Philippine

Audience: + 18

​​​

  • Attention Grabbing (AGAW PANSIN)

Director: Romm Burlat

- Philippine

Audience: + 18

​​​

  • Twist Of Fate (BALIKUKO) – Philippine

Director: Romm Burlat

– Philippine

Audience: + 18

​​​​    2018

On Saturday Third of November​

Edition FIVE of The Sahar international

Short Film Festival 2018

At the Millgate Art Centre , Manchester United Kingdom

* International Category

       

 CAVE (FHUKPA)

Director: Pasang Dawa Sherpa, Duration time:14'

​​CONFORT TV 

Director:  Ivan Valencia, Duration time:10'

​​

DREAM OF THE LAKE

Director:  Arnau Olive Valls, Duration time: 30'

​​

     (SUEÑO EN EL LAGO) 

Kampung Tapir

Director:  Awse wee, Duration time: 8'

          

Semantics

Director: Aroop Dwivedi, Duration time: 4'

​Joint Critic Award to:  Farida

Director:  Mohamed Zouaoui, Duration time:  15'

​​

 Winner:  The Beetle at The End of The Streer (El Escarabajo  Al Final De La Calle ) 

Director:  Joan  Vives Lozano, Duration time: 19'

​​

 *​ Contemporary Iranian Cinema

​​

The road will never end

Director:  Atena Mahmodi 2017, Duration time: 34

​​​​​​​THE CALLING FOR FATHER

Director: HAMIDREZA MAZRAEH KHATIRI 2017, Duration time:  23'

​​

   TEN PAST ELEVEN

Director: AMIR HOSSEIN BASSIR  2017, Duration time: 9'

The Black , director:  Hamideh Moeinfar

Hands and Shoulders , director:  Ali Asghar Ahmadi Moghadam

Strike , director:  Ardavan Tarakameh

Oracle , director:  Seyed Mohsen Pourmohseni Shakib - Animation

Play Ground , director:  Hossein Tabatabayee

​​

Competition Category:

* Premier

"Lava Beds", director:  Filomena Rusciano - Experimental

“Transitions”, director:  Ana Barroso - Experimental

"All I know", director:  Quincy Davis - Music Video

"When The Drama Ends", director:  Quincy Davis - Music Video

* “HE'S MINE”, director:  Daniel Daigle - Drama

*“Birds With Human Heads”, director:  Max Wilde - Experimental

"Then I Found out": Producer, director:  Ladan Dorandish & Persian Media

Production - Animation

“Ugly but good” , director:  Jordan Wong  - Experimental

 "Love & Zambies" , director:  Alexander Manilov  - Drama

" Bamboo Lavada" , director:  Bidit Roy - Documentary 

* Sahar Audience  Award to:  Scar

Director: AMIR HOSSEIN BASSIR  2018, Duration time:  5'

* Sahar Critic  Award to:  ZIBA

Director:  HAMIDEH MOEINFAR 2017, Duration time:  7'

​​

Thank you for participation with us.

All screening fees for Iranian films paid to MAHAK charitable organization in IRAN: https://mahak-charity.org/main/index.php/en)

On Saturday 25th of November

The Edition FOUR of the Sahar International

Short Film Festival 2017

At the Millgate Art Centre , Manchester United Kingdom

   2017

International Category

* Premiere : 

Altrove (Elsewhere), director: Alessandro Sala

​- Anthar Vimarsha, director: Jayanth Kumar 

- Fighting for the wild, director: Desislava Kadra

* International 

- Another empty space, director: Davi De Oliveira Pinheiro

 

- For dog  Md Ariful Islam

- Imagine, director: Abishak Anand

- Joint  Audience Award: Bus Story

 Director: Jorge Yudice ruiz - Tomas

​​​​​​​​- Joint Panel of Judges Award :

 Identity , director:  Juan Carlevaris

Rattling fan , director:  Pasang Dava Sherpa

 

- Semiotics, director: Aroop Dwivedi

Joint Audience Award:

 

The Drunkard's walk, director: Pol Armengol

 

- Today's Dream, director: Kaushik Mandal 

 

- Walking on water, director: Abraham Jacob

- Working late, director: David Gilbank

* Contemporary Iranian Cinema

- Demon Akvan , director: Milad daemi-Soraya khodagholizade

- Foot Steps, director: Noushin Meraji

Sahar Critic  Award:

 From Hasakah With Love , director:  Mohammad Farahani

- Happy Birthday, director: Meysam Hassaanzadeh

Sahar Audience  Award :

The Servant, director:  Farnoosh Abadi 

- Boat Raising Sails, director: Shermin Mojtahedzadeh

Thank you to the Filmmakers especially  whom did not access to pay pal to pay screening fees to us, instead they paid equivalents of £5 to The Women Charitable Organization in Their own country.

A short Clip about Earthquake in Kurdistan 

Director & Photographer : Sahar Ansari

 Poetry :  Mandana Ansari

* Special Programme:

Poetry Night featuring Mandana Ansari Poetry

​​

- Dance , director:  Claddagh Irish adult dancers in Manchester

- Presentation Award

 On Saturday 24th of June 2017  

The Eedition THREE of The Sahar International

Short Film Festival

At the Millgate Art Centre , Manchester United Kingdom

​​​

* Tribute to Abbas Kiarostami

* International Category:

- Artemis, director: Header D. Freeman

 

- A Silent Scream", director: David Viscota

- Cactus, director: Catherine Philips

- Curry Fish Head, director:  Srinivas Bhakta

- Dark Dreamer, director: Max Poinschowski

- For One,Director: Mathieu Rivolier

- Hoblio, director: Piero Tonin

- "I am Sorry" , director:  Teodor Kuhn

Little Jaques, director: John Davide

- No End, director: Josephine Massarella

- Normal, director: Vadim Lasca

- Oracle, director: Mohsen Pourmohseni

- Omar, director: Safaa Alobaidy

- Pigman, director: Rik Gordon

-Pit Stop Loving, director: Noam Osban

- The Human Mirror, director: Marc Nadal

- The Mandrake, director: Nasrin Bechir

- The Ride, director: Werner Bohnen 

- The Vast Landscap, director: Lea Vidakovic

- Valtula the whirl wind, director: Shyam Sundar Chatterjee

​​

*  Contemporary Iranian Cinema

​​

- Hands and shoulders, director:  Ali Moghadam

- Oracle, director:  Seyed Mohsen  Pourmohseni Shakib 

- Play Ground , director: Hossein Tabatabayee - 30 '

- Strik, director: Ardavan Tarakameh

- Then I Found Out , director: Pichak

- The Black, director:  Hamideh Moeinfar

​​

Tribute to Abbas Kiarostami

   

- Poetry night : featuring the poetry of Abbas Kiarostami

​​

  * Special Screening:

   - Certified Copy , director:   Abbas Kiarostami - Feature Film 

   

- Online Talk about Abbas Kiarostamy art style , Film director:  Jafar Panahi

     (, an exclusive talk)

​​

 Master Class about introduction of Film making , director:  John Crumpton

​​

    2016:

​​

On Saturday 23th - 30th of April 2016,

at the Millgate Art Centre & Oldham Library,

Manchester United Kingdom

​​

Edition Two of the Sahar International Short Film Festival

 

* International Category:

 

Circa, director:   Steve Fairclough  

Best Animation: JUNK GIRL

Director:  Mohamad Zare

KEECHADPANTI , director: Anant Keni

​​

Sahar Audience Award: Lonely Continent

Director: Mandana Ansari

​​

Sahar Audience Award: Why, director:   Vahid Monjezi

To the top , director: Tizan BuchS

 

"OLE LUKØJE " Director:   Gemma Day

​Two Roses ,Director:  Elder Ibarrondo

 

"War", director:  Nilesh Bell Gorsia  


Warp & Weft, director: Amir Houshang Moein & shalale kheiri

 

We can't live without cozmoz , director: Konstantin Bronzi

​​

​​

* Contemporary Iranian Cinema

 

Norouz: Seven Regards" , director: Mehdi Yarmohamadi

 

"Earth's Disheveled Tress", director:  Mehdi Yarmohamadi

​​

Sahar audience Award: "It is Winter" , director:  Sepideh Mirhoseini

​​

Best Director: The Wind Will Tell Something, director: Ali Mardomi

 

Best Screenplay: "Remaining piece of Taste of cherry", director:  Javad Chardoly

 

(Hello Memoirs), director: Nousha Saidi

Sahar audience Award: Experiment , director:  Mohammad Reza Minapour

 

Treasure, director: Hossein Rabie

 

Best Documentary: The Migratory Birds, director: Hosein Dadgar

 

Blue eyed boy, director:  Masoud Soheili

 

"3 Days later ...Nagasaki, director: Hamed Aslany

 

"Southen Mehrabad" , director: Amin Ashrafi

 

"Life if only to live", director:  Mahor Majlesy

 

"Cafe, Street Walk side", director:  Meysam Hasanzadeh 

 

"Mirage", director:  Javad Pour heydari

​​​​

 
   2014

   2015 


 

The First Edition of Sahar International Short Film Festival
On Saturday 21th of Feb 2015, at the Millgate Art Centre , Manchester United Kingdom 


           

* COMPETITION  SELECTION          
      
  Film Title  -  Director   -   Duration Time

 

Aligning With You, director: Eugene Tang - 11:46         

 Delta, director:  John Schultz - 9:48

 Deja Vu, director:  Soul Minor - 4:57          

 

 Dream of Eve, director: Mandana Ansari      - 10:00

 

 Envy, director:   Ashley Belgrave- 8:53

 

 Felicity’s Story, director:  Mary Carroll - 12:49 

 

 Hedda, director:  Viraj Vida - 2:47

 *(Best of Fest) Hunger strike, director:  Mandana Ansari

 

Hero for Hire, director: Diane Choi  -9:14

 

Invisible Hope, director: Theresa Khalil  - 11:44

*(Best of Fest) Life in Between, director: Jones Levenson  -16:52 

Slow Ascent, director: Nikki & Matthew Swift  -6:36      

 

Spore, director: Matthew Dombrowski -1:03

 

T.E.A.R. , director: Jenny Longworth -5:19

 

*(Best of Fest) The Right to Remain Silent, director:  David Hennessy - 9:52

 

Us and Them, director: Sam Karamyani - 3:35

​​

   * ​Non-Competition Section

1-A Better Place, director:  Moises Romera & Marisa Crespo - 3:30

 

2-A Mother, director:  Aroop Dwivedi   - 14:16

 

3-Agape, director:  Chris Strikes  -12:23                 

 

4-An Actor Prepares, director:  Denis Halligan - 6:44

 5-Another Planet , director:  Katie Romney  -  2:25

 

 6-Banshees, director: James Starkie - 3:0

 

  7-Benaras, director:  Amartya Bhattacharyya  - 7:50

 

8-Boonrerm, director:   Sorayos Prapapan  - 16:36

 

9-Colour Melody, director:  Tom Chimiak  - 2:24

 

10-Date with Fate, director: Venetia Taylor - 3:44

 

11-Drops of Smoke, director:  Ane Siderman  -21:35                

 

12-Eating the Apple, director:  Mert Guler - 6:59

 

13-Essence, director:   Martina Mikusova   - 5:04

 

14-The Foot Job, director: Brian Pracht   - 7:09

 

15-Force of Attraction, director: Eva Sekeresova - 4:07

 

16-Four and Five, director: Andy Joule - 7:06

 

 17-Gorilla, director: Jack Bottomley - 2:21

 

18-Hard Dream, director: Behrouz Bagheri - 11:42

 

19-Call it Love, director: Elsy Hajjar - 8:45

 

20-I Feel Lost, director: Juan Manuel Aragon -12:54

 

21-Image, director: Yousef Jafary -  3:39

 

22-In Front Of The Spider, director: Marc Nadal- 13:22

 

23-I've Just Had a Dream, director: Javier Navarro - 7:25

 

​24-Coffee, director:  Sonja Petrovic - 9:51

 

25-Kids, director:  Denes Ruzsa & Fruzsina Spitzer - 4:08

 

26-Lila, director: Carlos Lascano - 9:09

 

27-Love You Still, director: Michael Viers - 11:01

 

 28-M is for Macho, director:  Jose Pedro Lopes - 3:30

 

 29-Mono A Mono (Hand in Hand), director: Ignatio Tatay - 7:05

 

30-Moments, director: Chris Cronin - 5:45

 

31-Photographing Richard Serra, director:  Gillian McIver - 8:01

 

32-Pink Shells, director: Or Sahar     - 10:2

 

33-Sara, director: Hamid Taheri   - 10:04

 

34-Shame and Glasses, director: Alessandro Riconda   - 7:08

 

35-Sisters, director:  Lea Vidakovic - 7:48

 

36-The Cage Bird, director: Ashraf Shishir - 13:47

 

37-The Cheater Day, director: Bartosz Warwas   - 33:15

 

38-The Illusion, director: Mohammad Reza Hanafi  - 2:04

 

39-The Race Card, director: Audrey Noone - 6:04

 

​40-The Riddle, director:  Fidae Sbaai    - 14:55

 

41-The Sound of the Road, director: Barzan Rostami    - 2:25

 

42-The Rebel, The Soltier and the outcast, director: Andrew Pengilley - 10:00

 

 43-Transformation, director: Ueuk Engin Can   - 5:23

 

44-Welcome to Bavaria, director: Matthias Kobmehl  - 11:23

 

45-Willing, director: Joe Pisciotta - 17:16

​46-When The Pile Is Crooked, director: Shaneika Johnson/ Simms - 8:02

In Edition One: Three best film SAHAR AWARDS Selected by  Audience:

  

"The Right To Remain Silent , director:  David Hennessy"

  "Hunger Strike" , director:  Mandana Ansari" 

  "Life in between, director:  Jones Levenson

 

Best of Fest Screening

On 26 of Oct 2024

Address

Oldham Library

Oldham,

Cultural Quarter,  OL1 1AL 

Oldham Library
Near to Oldham Sainsbury

(Performance Space)

Contact

Opening Hours

0044754355

Saturday:

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Ticket: Is Free of Charge 
But Donations Accepted
Rat: For All ages 

Under 12 with parental guidance

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