Iran’s Youth Filmmaking Olympiad announces lineup

The 4th edition of the Youth Filmmaking Olympiad of Iran has announced the titles of the selected competing films.

Out of 403 submitted works, the Olympiad’s Selection Committee has chosen 36 films for the Competition Section and four titles and one idea as guest films and guest idea of the event, respectively.

The selected films are as follows:

‘Amazon’ by Paniz Pourmehr

‘If Only Our School…’ by Mahshad Saadat-Maleki

‘Red, Yellow, Green’ by Zahra Mahmoudi

‘The Land’ by Saeed Hassanpour

‘Longing for Rain’ by Samira Ebadifar

‘My City’ by Ramtin Bigdeli

‘Lenz Magic’ by Maryam Rezaee

‘No Commentary Needed’ by Jivar Farajzadeh

‘The Light Bulb’ by Ramin Toranj

‘The Quarantine’ by Arefeh Jafari

‘On-line’ by Mohaddeseh Bazmi

‘Corona is Lurking at the Door’ by Reyhaneh Tatari

‘Serok’ by Jivar Farajzadeh

‘Coronah’ by Mohammad-Amin Estiri

‘Pine’ by Masoumeh Toutakhaneh

‘Unputdownable Magic’ by Youkabed Rahmani

‘Grapevines Festivity’ by Baharan Aqaee

‘Playmate’ by Samina Shafiee

‘Depressed Ladle’ by Amir-Abbas Khaesifar

‘The Adventure of a Pair of Trousers’ by Mohammad-Mahan Saleh

‘Life Space’ by Iliya Ramezani

‘The Opening’ by Matin Rostami

‘One-door Distance’ by Maedeh Esmaeeli

‘Have You Seen the Sun’ by Hannaneh Moradian

‘Visage’ by Atila Ashouri

‘Like Nobody’ by Arefeh Jafari

‘There’s Another Life’ by Malek Masoumi

‘Being Fourteen’ by Fatemeh Mohiti

‘Closely Distant’ by Seyyed Mohammad-Hossein Hassani-Ajdari

‘Grooming’ by Ana Jalili

‘House of Decency’ by Abolfazl Eshaqzadeh

‘Stirrups’ by Ava Govashiri

‘The Last Leaf That Fell’ by Aynaz Afrazi

‘Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder’ by Fatemeh Esmaeeli

‘Me and My Loneliness’ by Kasra Alizadeh

‘Imagination’ by Maryam Rezaee

The selected guest films are:

‘Round Here’ by Mehdi Jangjou

‘Happy Birthday’ by Ghazal Farhadi

‘Seeing Hands’ by Fatemeh Davoudi

‘The Frame’ by Mohammad-Taha Mansour-Samaee

And the selected guest idea is ‘My Motherlies’ by Yasin Tayyebi.

The 4th Youth Filmmaking Olympiad of Iran will be held virtually by Farabi Cinematic Foundation and the Iranian Youth Cinema Society, in collaboration with Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, Islamic Culture and Communication Organization, Isfahan Municipality and Omid TV, on October 18-23, 2020, along with the 33rd edition of the International Film Festival for Children and Youth (ICFF).

MG/AG