Special thanks are due to:
The BBISFF team:
Dimitris Nakos Evana Venardou Labrini Papadimitriou
Tasou Palissidou Anna Antonopoulou Taxiarchis Deligiannis
Vassilis Tsiouvaras Giannis Nikolaou Giorgos Prokopidis Athina Moghaddam
Amir
Ioannis N. Arhontakis
Iranian Youth Cinema Society:
Mr Sadegh Mousavi, CEO
Mohammad Fahimi, Director of International Affairs of IYCS Katerina Balamoti (Hellenic Foundation for Culture Representative in Iran) Nikos Doukas (Counselor for Economic & Commercial Affairs, Embassy of Greece in Iran)
Federation of Greek Cinema Clubs (F.G.C.C.) and especially Dimitris Kalantidis, CEO Ministry of Economy and Development / Public Administration Reform. European Social Fund
and especially Mrs. Georgoglou, Mrs. Syrou, Stefanos Tsemperlidis Tina Pischitzi (General Director, Department of Cinema,
Ministry of culture and sports)
Vassilis Kosmopoulos (General Director of Greek Film Center) Elissavet Chronopoulou (Director, Greek Film Center) Panos Kouanis (General Director, Department of National Center
for Audiovisual Media and Communication) Lina Manolopoulou (National Center for Audiovisual Media and Communication)
Kostas Dimos (Vouli TV) Aris Fatouros (Vouli TV) The BBISFF 2018 jury:
Stratoula Theodoratou (Director) Alexis Tsafas (Director)
Simos Kyparisopoulos (Actor / Microμ Festival)
Program presenters:
Dimitris Nakos (Director) Amerissa Basta (Director) Vivian Papageorgiou (Director)
Alexandros Skoyras (Director) Dimitris Katsimiris (Director)
Electra Venaki (alt-cine)
Greek Film Archive and especially Tasos Adamopoulos & Faidra Papadopoulou
The festival’s supporters:
• Public Administration Reform. European Social Fund
• Iranian Youth Cinema Society
• Hellenic Foundation for Culture
• Federation of Greek Cinema Clubs (F.G.C.C.)
• Greek Film Archive - Film Museum
and especially to the festival’s media sponsors:
Last but not least I would like to thank all the Iranian directors that participate in BBISFF 2018!
The Artistic Director of BBISFF Kyriakos Chatzimichailidis
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Ice water ... 7
Are you volleyball?! ... 7
Ayoob ... 7
One day later ... 8
It rains slowly ... 8
Zona ... 8
The scarecrows die too ... 9
Related by blood ... 9
Animal ... 9
The balance wheel ... 10
Zalzalak ... 10
Rope ... 10
The season of return ... 11
The little boy ... 11
Silence again ... 11
The fan!? ... 12
Manicure ... 12
Cube ... 12
The color of my mother’s chador ... 13
Withheld ... 13
Periodicity ... 13
For sale ... 14
Temporary ... 14
Saad’s olive tree ... 14
Icky ... 15
That night raining ... 15
Silence ... 15
Astonished ... 16
The cemetery men ... 16
SPECIAL TRIBUTE ... 17
“Gender Equality – Women support structures” ... 17
Pale mirrors ... 17
Not Yet ... 17
Exchange ... 17
Hostess ... 18
Retouch ... 18
Ice water
Directed by Jalal Saedpanah
Synopsis
Perhaps no one knows the value of water better than an old man who tied the droplets of water to his life in order to keep the cycle of animals alive.
Technical data
Fiction, Color, Duration: 15' 54'', Year: 2015
Are you volleyball?!
Directed by Mohamad Bakhshi
Synopsis
A group of Arabian spoken asylum seekers arrive to an English spoken country border and can't keep going. They conflict with border soldiers everyday till a deaf-mute baby becomes a catalyst for better communication between two groups.
Technical data
Fiction, Color, Duration: 14' 57'', Year: 2017
Ayoob
Directed by Amin Qavami
Synopsis
Ayoob is transferred to the hospital with a hearse instead of an ambulance.
Technical data
Fiction, Color, Duration: 21' 45'', Year: 2017
One day later
Directed by Ehsan Hemmati
Synopsis
Back home from his months-old assignment, Farhad learns that his close friend has died and left a will. Farhad's daughter has been named as the heir to the dead man's wealth. Based on the evidence, Farhad grows suspicious seeking to find out what had happened between his wife and his friend while he was away on assignment. He wants to know whether his daughter is really his.
Technical data
Fiction, Color, Duration: 23' 04'', Year: 2016
It rains slowly
Directed by Saeed Nejati
Synopsis
The story happened in 1980s and its topic is: a teacher teaches the students what freedom is and how to withstand injustice.
Technical data
Fiction, black & white, Duration: 15' 0'', Year: 2016
Zona
Directed by Toofaan Nahan Ghodrati
Synopsis
A man is called to the court by a woman who claims pregnancy after being with him.
For proving this claim the DNA test is taken and the result clears other happenings of man's life.
Technical data
Fiction, Color, Duration: 20' 42'', Year: 2018
The scarecrows die too
Directed by Parviz Rostami
Synopsis
This is a story of an old couple who lost their son and his wife in a bomb blast at their wedding during the war between Iran and Iraq.
The couple is reminded of the war by the guns left behind and landmines that surround the mountains around their village. They are worried about the war starting again. The movie is written based on the stories told by a survivor citizen of Dezli village.
Technical data
Fiction, Color, Duration: 14' 39'', Year: 2015
Related by blood
Directed by Hossein Amiri Doumari & Pedram Pour Amiri Synopsis
A father has to persuade one of his sons to donate his kidney in order to save the life of his other son.
Technical data
Fiction, Color, Duration: 30' 00'', Year: 2016
Animal
Directed by Bahman & Bahram Ark
Synopsis
This is the story of a man trying to escape from the country border.
Technical data
Fiction, Color, Duration: 15' 16'', Year: 2017
The balance wheel
Directed by Amir Honarmand
Synopsis
An old watchmaker in Iraqi Kurdistan wakes up on one morning to find that his village has been taken over by the terrorist group ISIS. A high ranking ISIS soldier wants him to repair his Rolex. However, the old man is preoccupied with saving mysterious injured man who is inside his neighbor's well.
Technical data
Fiction, Color, Duration: 22' 14'', Year: 2016
Zalzalak
Directed by Iraj Μohammadi Razini
Synopsis
It is the story of a seed turning into a big tree.
Technical data
Animation, black & white, Duration: 6' 12'', Year: 2015
Rope
Directed by Azar Μansoori
Synopsis
It narrates the story of a man who lives in a city where people have execution rope above their heads.
Technical data
Animation, Color, Duration: 7' 11'', Year: 2016
The season of return
Directed by Abbas Αmini
Synopsis
A boy kills someone inadvertently.
Technical data
Fiction, Color, Duration: 13' 22'', Year: 2014
The little boy
Directed by Mona A. Shahi
Synopsis
People are leaving a town by the order of military but a little boy does not want to follow them as he has his own mission to do.
Technical data
Animation, black & white, Duration: 7' 00'', Year: 2015
Silence again
Directed by Razieh Seraji
Synopsis
On the night of the last Wednesday of year' fest, the father goes to the police station and is looking for someone who beat his son. But his boy is silent and refuses to speak...
Technical data
Fiction, Color, Duration: 10' 34'', Year: 2017
The fan!?
Directed by Mostafa Emami
Synopsis
A little boy among hundreds of thousands of football fans in the stadium is looking for something.
Technical data
Fiction, Color, Duration: 5' 05'', Year: 2015
Manicure
Directed by Arman Fayyaz
Synopsis
The young woman who committed suicide was carried for bury to the holly tomb of the village, but the fanatical villagers were expelled after discovering her female hermaphrodite nature and her engagement with her husband.
Technical data
Fiction, Color, Duration: 14' 02'', Year: 2018
Cube
Directed by Farhad Najafi Fard
Synopsis
A man is pushing forward a big cube while people are passing by without noticing him.
People are standing in front of a deep pit. The man throws the cube inside of the pit and now people can pass from top of the pit.
Technical data
Animation, Color, Duration: 2' 25'', Year: 2015
The color of my mother’s chador
Directed by Zahra Kazemi
Synopsis
It’s an old man’s memory of his childhood.
Technical data
Fiction, Color, Duration: 8' 13'', Year: 2011
Withheld
Directed by Mohammad Soraya
Synopsis
The story of a man that commits a murder prevents assault to a woman.
Technical data
Fiction, Color, Duration: 15' 52'', Year: 2017
Periodicity
Directed by Ali Khoshdouni Farahani
Synopsis
In an unspecific time and area a man inside his tiny cell tries to communicate with the outside sound.
Technical data
Fiction, Color, Duration: 8' 59'', Year: 2016
For sale
Directed by Ali Bana`iyan
Synopsis
A young mother is struggling with her feelings when she has to give her baby for sale.
Technical data
Fiction, Color, Duration: 14' 00'', Year: 2017
Temporary
Directed by Behzad Azadi
Synopsis
Zahra lives with her only daughter in Tehran. She is temporarily married to a man who has never seen her, in order to live her life, on the suggestion of her neighbor's wife.
Technical data
Fiction, Color, Duration: 15' 29'', Year: 2013
Saad’s olive tree
Directed by Ahmad Zayeri
Synopsis
Saad is a Syrian child and loves football a lot.
He has a football team. The war loses his eyes and then imprisoned him at home. But his mother is trying to give him hope.
Technical data
Fiction, Color, Duration: 23' 51'', Year: 2017
Icky
Directed by Parastoo Cardgar
Synopsis
It is the story of a child living in a land whose people have solved Rubik`s Cube as their head.
Technical data
Animation, Color, Duration: 5' 55'', Year: 2016
That night raining
Directed by Mohammad Mahdi Βagheri Synopsis
Midnight, my wife woke me up and said
“someone is in our home” but not long ago, I lost my wife!!
Technical data
Fiction, Color, Duration: 4' 17'', Year: 2017
Silence
Directed by Mehrdad Hasani
Synopsis
An afghan boy earns a living by delivering letters to houses, till a day, that he becomes responsible for carrying a package to the city school...
Technical data
Fiction, Color, Duration: 12' 16'', Year: 2015
Astonished
Directed by Mohammad Davoodi
Synopsis
A family is involved in a conflict following a marriage proposal.
Technical data
Fiction, Color, Duration: 28' 50'', Year: 2015
The cemetery men
Directed by Ali Mardomi
Synopsis
An old man is the only narrator of the tragedies of Karbela in an old cemetery on the outskirts of the city. When a younger narrator enters, the old man’s peace is disturbed.
Technical data
Fiction, Color, Duration: 29' 27'', Year: 2015
SPECIAL TRIBUTE
“Gender Equality – Women support structures”
Pale mirrors
Directed by Salem Salavati
Synopsis
Shobo is a young woman struggling in the doubt of having a baby or not. She has limited time and has to decide the final decision whether she wants to be a mother or not. The decision will be crucial for her and the ones beside her.
Technical data
Fiction, Color, Duration: 15' 49'', Year: 2016
Not Yet
Directed by Arian Vazirdaftari
Synopsis
Hasti is studying abroad and her parents are determined to celebrate her birthday.
Technical data
Fiction, Color, Duration: 14' 49'', Year: 2016
Exchange
Directed by Abolfazl Azizi
Synopsis
A woman is forced to marry her husband’s brother in order to take care of her child. At that time her secret is revealed.
Technical data
Fiction, Color, Duration: 16' 37'', Year: 2017
Hostess
Directed by Omid Abdollahi
Synopsis
A middle aged woman reluctantly accepts to take part in his son’s nightly party, but not as a guest. She is the hostess.
Technical data
Fiction, Color, Duration: 20' 28'', Year: 2014
Retouch
Directed by Kaveh Mazaheri
Synopsis
Mariam's husband is dying before her eyes and she is just looking.
Technical data
Format: digital, Color, Duration: 6' 54'', Year: 2016
All the films will be screened for the first time in Greece and have Greek subtitles.
Free Entrance
Easy Access for Disabled People
The “Gender Equality – Women support structures” theme in this BBISFF 2018 is implemented through the Public Administration Reform. European Social Fund.
