THE SAHAR INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM
FESTIVAL 2024 EDITION 11
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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Joint Award for best Fiction Film
Award for Best Documentary
Award for Best Poetic Film
Joint Award for Best Fiction Film
Warrior
Director: Quincy Davic
Joint Award for
Best Music Video
Thank you to Los Gloster Team
Director by Helia Serano Varela
First To Leave(Die)
Award For Best Animation Film:
The Forest of Honey Bees
Director: Erwan Le Gal
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.
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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
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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
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(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
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
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
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
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
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
The Sahar Film Festival 2024 Flyer
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
Ticket is Free of charge
Films are suitable for all age ,with parental guidance
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 – 2023
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
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
"t3mp0"
Premiere
Director: Marcio Riscado
Duration: 8 '
2020 - Drama from Brazil
"Deliverence"
Director: Denis Klein
Duration: 9 '
2021 Dance - Belgium
" The Forgotten" (منسيون - نسخة قصيرة)
Premier
Director: TAREQ BADDAR
Duration: 28'
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
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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
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