Film Archive

International Competition Short Film 2019
Am I a Wolf?
Amir Houshang Moein

Children perform a puppet theatre version of the fairytale “The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats” and identify strongly with their roles. The boundaries between acting and real life begin to blur.

Am I a Wolf?

Animated Film
Iran
2018
8 minutes
Subtitles: 
_without dialogue / subtitles

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Producer
KANOON – Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children & Young Adults
Director
Amir Houshang Moein
Music
Mohamad Jafari
Editor
Amir Houshang Moein
Animation
Amir Houshang Moein
Script
Amir Houshang Moein
Sound
Hosein Ghourchian
Children perform a puppet theatre version of the fairytale of “The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats”. They identify so strongly with their roles that the boundaries between acting and real life begin to blur. In restrained colours, the drawn animation shifts between these levels. For the boy who plays the big bad wolf the performance ends in an emotional borderline experience. This film is based on a collection of poetry by the Iranian children’s and youth book writer Afsaneh Shaban-nejad.

Annina Wettstein



Awarded with a Golden Dove in the International Competition Short Animated Film.

Asho

Documentary Film
Iran
2019
30 minutes
Subtitles: 
English

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Producer
Maryam Najafi
Director
Jafar Najafi
Music
Amir Shahabi
Cinematographer
Ahmad Babadi
Editor
Huda Arshad Riahi
Sound
Saeid Bahrami
Asho knows not only how to deal with goats, he also knows about films. He tries to see at least one a day. His favourite director is Tim Burton. Always on the road (Asho means “eagle”), the Iranian shepherd’s son dreams of being an actor. By his side: his cousin and future wife Pari. Pari thinks that if Asho becomes a star, then so should she. But they both have been for a long time: This is their behind-the-scenes.

Carolin Weidner



Awarded with an Honorable Mention in the International Competition Short Animated and Documentary Film.

International Competition Short Film 2015
Ayan and the White Balloon Vida Dena

After five years in exile in Europe the director returns to Iran to make a film. She asks her friends to act in it. What starts as a game during the shoot gradually turns into a brutal clash between those who stayed and the one who left.

Ayan and the White Balloon

Documentary Film
Belgium,
Iran
2015
26 minutes
Subtitles: 
English

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Producer
KASK Academy of art, Gent University, Belgium
Director
Vida Dena
Music
Emad, Meisam, Ali, Pooyan
Cinematographer
Vida Dena
Editor
Dieter Diependaele, Vida Dena
Script
Vida Dena
Sound
Milad, Michel Coquette
Hiding: behind masks, the white balloon, a fiction. The fears run deep. After five years in exile in Europe the director returns to Iran to make a film. She asks her friends to act in it. What starts as a game during the shoot gradually turns into a brutal clash between those who stayed and the one who left. Who has the prerogative of interpretation? What is a stereotype, what does the West want to see, what do the Iranians want to reveal about themselves?

Cornelia Klauß

Maned & Macho

Animated Film
Iran
2017
11 minutes
Subtitles: 
_without dialogue / subtitles

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Producer
Shiva Sadegh Asadi
Director
Shiva Sadegh Asadi
Music
Amir Pourkhalaji
Cinematographer
Shiva Sadegh Asadi
Editor
Mohammad Nasseri, Shiva Sadegh Asadi
Animation
Shiva Sadegh Asadi
Script
Shiva Sadegh Asadi
Sound
Changiz Sayad
An adolescent girl rejects the social role it’s meant to play and hides all her feelings and thoughts in a secret world filled with animal creatures. Over time it grows into a large outdoor enclosure for all kinds of quiet fantasies, dreams and fears which soon become untameable. Shiva Sadegh Asadi uses fascinating, flowing paintings to talk quietly about an “I” that grows louder and louder.

André Eckardt


Nominated for Young Eyes Film Award