AWARD WINNERS
The 2nd Sahar International Short Film Festival has been announced
The 2nd Sahar International Short Film Festival 2016 Final selections
were announced at the presentation ceremony at Oldham Library.
Best Films by Audience on 23rd of April 2016 in Contemporary
Iranian Cinema were:
" It is Winter" by Sepideh Mirhoseini and
"Experiment" by Mohammad Reza Minapour
On 30th of April, International best short films by audience were:
"Lonely Continent" by Mandana Ansari and
"Why" by Vahid Monjezi
BEST BY SISFF PANEL OF JUDGES
Best Director: " It is Winter" by Sepideh Mirhoseini ,
The wind will tell something by Ali Mardomi
Best Screenplay: "Remaining piece of taste of cherry"
by Javad Chardoly
"We cant live without cozmoz" by Konstantin Bronzit
Best Documentary: Migratery Birds: Hossein Dadgar
Best Animation: Junk Girl By Mohamad Zare & Shalaleh Kheiri
Keechadpanti by Anant Keni
Best Camera: Gabriel Lobos for To the top
Best music: Robert steel for Junk girl and Migratory Birds
Best Composer: Chakad Fesharaki for Warp & Weft
Best Singer: Ashigh Gorban Aliyari for Migratory birds and
Behrokh Hossein Babayee for Lonely Continent
Best Child Actor: Niki Mandegar For Lonely Continent
Saba Janghi for The wind will tell something and Aria Bodaghi for Experiment
Best Actress Setare Soheili & Rozita Fazayee for Why
Jenna Hasse for To the top and Shaboo Soleymani for The wind will tell something
Best Actor: Ali Kamrani for Why and Jordan Bolger for war
Best make up artists: Mahin Navidi & Irsa Taghavi for It's winter
Best Film Edit: Farid Hosseini for Its winter
Best Production Manager: Martin Gleeson for Lonely continent
SISFF2016 SHOWREEL
Mehdi Yarmohamadi, Filmmaker and
the 2nd Sahar International Short Film Festival Jury Panel
Mehdi Yaarmohamadi, 38-year-old filmmaker and Director of
Independent Sun (Khorshid) Short Film Festival in Tehran, Iran. He is an award winner from many film festival from across the world. This year, he has 2 films in the 2nd Sahar International Short Film Festival. Based on his request, his film screened in the Non-competition section because he worked as a promoter of short films, fiction, and documentary to festival around the world.
This year, he is one of the Jury panel of The 2nd SISFF. He answered our questions with integrity.
Thank you very much for taking the time for this short interview. Please tell our followers: How do you feel about involving with the Sahar Festival?
Mehdi: I have become familiar with the Sahar Festival from the first year through Facebook, because I am a Webmaster for short films, and my attention was drawn to the festival. And when I got to know the management of Sahar festival, I realised how much they have a cultural concern about holding the short film festival, I decided to join and participate with them, and I am very delighted of this collaboration.
You're a filmmaker and organizer of the festival in Tehran, and now you are one of the 2nd Sahar judges' members. Would you please tell us what do you feel about the Sahar Short Film Festival, and you live in Tehran and unfortunately you were unable to be present at the festival was whether this has affected your judgment?
Mehdi: Yes, I am the creator and director of the Sun independent short film in IRAN. My festival is about independent and experimental shorts. I do my best to introduce a thoughtful and creative Iranian-based cinema to the world. But because I am a promoter as well so I cooperate with many film festival inside and outside of IRAN.
I find it beautiful and pleasant in our colaboration with the Sahar International Short Film Festival.
Thank you, please tell me what advice you have for young filmmakers who are in their first steps?
Mehdi: My most important advice is to have a world before making a film, know your own perspective, language, and philosophy, live with it, learn more, and then make a film. Short film in today's world acts as a think tank, and to succeed and progress in it, you must first be a thinker...
مفتخر هستم که در نخستین قدم های فستیوال فیلم کوتاه سحر در خدمت شما هستیم جناب آقای مهدی یارمحمدی. شما فیلمساز و برگزار کننده فستیوال فیلم در تهران هستید و امسال در جشنواره یین المللی فیلم کوتاه سحر عضو هیئت داوران بودید لطفا بفرمائید که چه احساسی نسبت به جشنواره سحر دارید و با وجود این که در تهران زندگی می‌‌کنید و نتوانستید در جشنواره حاضر باشید آیا فکر می کنید نبود شما در داوری تان نسبت به فیلم ها تاثیری گذاشته است؟
بله، من مدیر و موسس جشنواره فیلم مستقل خورشید در ایران هستم که جشنواره ای ویژه فیلمهای مستقل و تجربه گرا است و تلاش می کند سینمای مبتنی بر اندیشه و خلاقیت ایرانی را بعنوان تصویر صحیح از سینمای جریان ساز و خردگرا ایران به جامعه بین المللی معرفی کند. البته چون پخش کننده فیلمهای کوتاه ایرانی هستم طی این مدت با جشنواره های زیادی در داخل و خارج از کشور همکاری کرده ام،
آن چیزی که برایم در همکاری با جشنواره سحر زیبا و خوشایند است، شوق و انرژی است که برای معرفی و نمایش آثار خوب سینمای ایران و فیلمهای کوتاه خلاق و هنری در برنامه ریزی مدیران این جشنواره وجود دارد، و این از نظر من نکته مهمی است و بی تردید آینده ای روشن و خوب را برای جشنواره سحر در پی خواهد داشت.
در مورد داوری فیلمها در ایران باید بگویم که در دنیای امروز مرزها کمرنگ و کمرنگ تر می شوند و این فقط ذهن و یا عادت انسانها است که این خط کشی های جغرافیایی را لحاظ می کنند. در دنیای امروز بی مرزی رو به گسترش است و دنیا همچنان در حرکت خود به سمت یک دهکده جهانی است، اینکه شما در تهران باشید و از طریق جهان فیلم به هر جای این دنیا سفر کنید برای من تجربه جالب، غریب و حیرت آوری بود.
در مورد داوری فیلمها هم با توجه به پارامترهای مشخصی که برای انتخاب برگزیده ها داشتیم، دیدن فیلمها در ایران مشکلی بوجود نمی آورد.
با سپاس از شما لطفا بفرمایید که چه پیشنهادی به فیلمسازان جوان که در گام های نخستین خود هستند دارید؟
مهمترین توصیه من این است که پیش از ساختن فیلم، جهان داشته باشید، نگاه، زبان و فلسفه شخصی خود را بشناسید، با آن زندگی کنید، بیشتر بیاموزید و سپس فیلم بسازید. فیلم کوتاه در دنیای امروز بعنوان یک اتاق فکر عمل می کند و برای موفقیت و پیشرفت در آن باید در ابتدا یک متفکر باشید...
Norouz: Seven Regards" : Mehdi Yarmohamadi
"Earth's Disheveled Tress" : Mehdi Yarmohamadi
"It is Winter" : Sepideh Mirhoseini
JUNK GIRL: Mohamad Zare & shalale kheiri
The Wind Will Tell Something : Ali Mardomi
"Remaining piece of Taste of cherry" :
Javad Chardoly
(Hello Memoirs): NoushaSaidi
Blue eyed boy : Masoud Soheili
(Experiment) Mohammad Reza Minapour
Treasure : Hosein Rabie
The MIGRATORI BIRDS : Hosein Dadgar
Warp & Weft : Amir Houshang Moein
"War" : Nilesh Bell Gorsia
"3 Days later ...Nagasaki" : Hamed Aslany
"Southen Mehrabad" : Amin Ashrafi
"Life if only to live": Mahor Majlesy
"Café, Street Walkside" : Meysam Hasanzadeh
"Mirage" : Javad Pour heydari
"OLE LUKØJE "
Director: Gemma Day
Lonely Continent
Director: Mandana Ansari
To the top
Director: TIZIAN BÜCHI’S
Circa
Director: Steve Fairclough
KEECHADPANTI
Director: Anant Keni
Two Roses
Director: Elder Ibarrondo
Why
Director: Vahid Monjezi
We can't live without cozmoz
Director: Konstantin Bronzi
The Contemporary Iranian Cinema
Film Title Director
The International Cinema
Film Title Director
The Sahar International Short Film Festival 2016 COMPETITION SELECTION
On 23rd of April at Millgate Arts Centre
The 2nd Sahar International Short Film Festival 2016
Sparkles with Contemporary Iranian Cinema
The 2nd Sahar International Short Film Festival 2016 made a sparkling start on Saturday 23rd of April at Millgate Arts Centre in Delph.
The audience was enthralled by the quality of the contemporary Iranian cinema when they voted for the two best films.
Some members of audience believed the contemporary Iranian cinema has dark and powerful messages which contained a philosophy and psychology in an atmospheric style.
Nandini is an engineer. She believed "It is winter" had a good chance of winning and has a different dimension.
Mandana Ansari, the director of festival, told us the results of today's audience votes and other awards selected by panel of Judges will be announced at the final screening this Saturday 30th of April at Oldham Library Performance Space from 2 pm to 4 pm.
A warm welcome to the audience.
We appreciate our friends and audience who supported us at these days.
Christine from the local area encouraged the organizers. She believed the quality of the festival is really high and deserves to be seen by a wider audience.
One Iranian came with his friend from Stockport. He told us: “It is a great feeling to see Iranian films on the screen in an English hall, spoken in my own language.”
He added: It was a great respect to the audience by asking us to vote for the best films.
Martin Gleeson, organizer of the festival, said the result of the audience vote will be counted independently.
The 2nd Sahar International Short Film Festival 2016
Screenings Programme:
Saturday 23 April 2016 - 3pm until 8pm:
Norooz: 3 pm
Contemporary Iranian Cinema short films Competition(Part 1) 3:15 PM
Contemporary Iranian Cinema short films Competition (Part 2) 5:15 PM
(Some Films in this Section are not suitable for children)
Non-competition - 7 PM
At : Millgate Theatre, Delph, Saddleworth, OL3 5DY
Saturday 30 April 2016 - 2pm until 4pm
At: Oldham Library, Cultural Quarter
- International Short Films
Competition Part 1 :(The Films have not been screened outside the Original Country)
Competition Part 2 :Open Competition
- Presentation of Awards
Free car parking up to 3 hours at nearby car parks