Best Films of The First Afghanistan Student Film Festival Announced

Jury members of Afghanistan Student Film Festival included from Latif Ahmadi, Ibrahim Arify and Roya Sadat that selected 3 films as First prize, second prize and 3rd prize from between 12 short films.

1. Silence / Sara Motamedi

2. Guard of Shadows / Aref Alizadeh

3. A Gift from my Brother / Wais & Khadem Hussein

THe first Afghanistan Student Film Festival held on 28 to 29 October 2013 in Art department, Kabul university. 

One Jury, One film in competition and 9 short films in Kabul Fresh in 15th Mumbai International Film Festival.

Afghanistan may be in turbulence but it is producing some of the world’s best cinema.

Sediq Barmak famous filmmaker of our country will be one of jury member in Mumbai International Film Festival this year. Also One future film has been selected in international competition. 

Taking note of this, the 15th edition of the Mumbai Film Festival will show nine films under a segment called “Kabul Fresh.” Films will screened in 'Kabul Fresh: 

1. Eye witness / Rafi Behroozian & Alka Sadat

2. Driving Test / Mahbouba Ebrahimi

3. A Time Called Oldness / Hamed Alizadeh

4. End of Love / Ghafar Azad

5. Life Imprisonment / Gholamreza Majedi

6. One Wish / Mohammad Aref Abidian

7. The Glasses / Seyyed Hussein Mousavi

8. Kabul Ambulance / Taj Mohammad Bakhtari

9. Amir and Sara / Sayed Jalal Husseini

This is the second year that the festival will see films which mark the blossoming of the film movement in Afghanistan. Over 200 films from 65 countries will be shown at the Festival between October 17 and 24.

12 films has been selected for the first kabul student film festival.

Kabul Student Film Festival committee selection selected 12 films through 51 films for competition.

The selection committee members , including Mr. Siddiq Barmak, Mr. Mamnon Maqsodi, Mr. Aref Bahram, Mss. Alka Sadat, Mss. Sahra Mousavi and Mr. Hassan Fazili selected 12 movies from total 51 movies which the festival received this year from students of universities of Afghanistan.

THe first Kabul Student Film Festival will held on 28 to 29 Octobe 2013 in Art department, Kabul univercity. 

5 short films from Afghanistan in Eastern Breeze International Film Festival.

Short fiction; "The Out Post" / Sayed Jalal Husseini ; "The Unknown" / Abdulqafar Azad

"End of Story" / Ghafar Azad ; "The Death Row" / Maryam Ebrahimi Short Documentary and 

"The beggar" / Mohammad Reza Gholami has been selected on Eastern Breeze International Film Festival.

Eastern Breeze International Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Toronto, Canada, which previews short and mid-length films of all genres, including documentary, animation, fiction and experimental, from around the world which contain an eastern taste or philosophy. This is a public film festival that takes place every October in Toronto.

Eastern Breeze International Film Festival aims to give new talent an opportunity to have their work screened for cinema fans who would be unable to find these films in their local movie theatres. EBIFF   strives to highlight the enigmatic eastern arts and cultures, introducing the existential humanist, and soulful characteristics of these bracing cultures in the context of a modern, Western Canada. By helping to bridge that gap, we celebrate Canada’s rich multicultural community.

The festival will highlight contributions from the quickly growing Canadian communities that come from the East. Today across Canada, these communities number 12 million people from Asia and the Middle East. In Ontario alone, over three million share an eastern culture, and it is to honour and display their cinematic contributions that Eastern Breeze rolls out this fall.

Eastern Breeze International Film Festival will held on 18 to 25 October in Toronto, Canada.

Afghanistan Human Rights International Film Festival Films has been selected

Afghanistan Short Film News Base(ASFNB) - Afghanistan Human Rights International Film Festival selection committee has finished for film selection. They have selected 46 films among 380 films from national and international films. They have selected 24 films for national and 23 films for international. Also 6 films has been selected for out of competition.

Afghanistan competition:
1. Wajme / Barmak Akram

2. My Sin / Ramin Yoosufi

3. Life imprisonment / Gholamreza Majedi

4. The Broken destiny of poetry / Neamat Haidari and Rahmat Haidari

5. A Wish / Mohammad (Aref) Abedian

6. On the String of forgetfulness / Aboozar Amini

7. Eyewitness - Rafee Behroozian & Alka Sadat

8. Afghan Women Behind the Wheel / Sahraa Karimi

9. Dorahi / Abdul Wahed Bakhtiar

10. The icy sun / Ramin Mohammadi

11. Swap / S. Masood Eslami

12. All human beings are member of one framel!? / Javid Merzaei

13. Little Afghanistan / Basir Seerat

14. The last president Jamil Jalla

15. Travel to The Dark / Wahed Habibi & Jalal Jamshidi

16. House 111 / Aziz Deldar

17. Guard of Shadows / Mohammad Arif Alizada

18. Story of a documentary / Sayed Zia Qasemi

19. End of love / Ghafar Azad

20. A women singing in the desert / Alka Sadat

21. The dog married to sheep / Hassan Fazili

22. The Unknown / Abdul Ghafar Faizyar

23. The life is beautiful / Sear Noorzad

24. Play on the play / Lajaward Haqiqi


International competition: 
1. The story of the book - Roberto Orazi / Italy

2. The Boy Mir - Phil Grabsky / UK

3. The Weight of the word - Costanza quatriglio / Italy

4. Iran southwestern - Mohammad Reza Fartousi / Iran

5. Daily Check-up - Mriganka Sonal / India

6. Duam - Abeer Zeibak Haddad/ Israel

7. Fire in the blood - Dylan Mohan Gray / India

8. White night - IRIT GAL / Israel

9. Platform no.5 - C. VANAJA / India

10. A drop of sunshine - APARNA SANYAL / India

11. Ancient Nomads - MARSBEK BUZURMANKULO / Kyrgyzstan

12. No man`s land - MICHAEL GRAVERSEN / Denmark

13. Much ado about knotting - GEETIKA NARAG ABBASI & ANANDANA KAPUR / India

14. Night of silence - REIS CELIK / Turkey

15. Dance with me - MARYAM PIRBAND / Iran

16. For what… - BATTULGA.S / Mongolia

17. While the wind blows - SERGEY POTAPOV / Russia

18. The 40th door / ELCHIN MUSAOGLU / Azerbaijan

19. If only everyone / NATALIA BELYAUSKENE / Armenia

20. Der kandidat / YOSEF BARAKI / Germany

21. Complicit / GAVIN HOFFMAN / Ireland

22. True Noon / NOSIR SAIDOV / Tajikistan

23.Finding Hilly wood / LEAH WARSHAWSKI / USA


Out of Competition:
1. Not at home / Shahrbano Sadat

2. The Virgin Minarets / Farhad Rezaie

3. Light and darkness / Fardin Barakzai

4. School Bus / Maryam Nabil Kamal

5. We come home / Ariana Delawari

6. Dusty Night / Ali Hazara

Second Afghanistan International Human Rights Film Festival will held on 5-10 October 2013 in Kabul.

Women's Voices Now - Call for Submissions

Women's Voices Now - Call for Submissions:

Women Bought and Sold: Voices United Against the Violence

$30,000 in CASH PRIZES
Categories: Documentary, Fiction, Experimental, and Student.
Deadlines: Submissions are OPEN until December 31, 2013. Late submissions accepted until January 31, 2014.

Women's Voices Now (WVN), a Los Angeles-based not-for-profit social enterprise is calling for film submissions for Women Bought and Sold: Voices United Against the Violence. The Festival is open to filmmakers of all genders, nationalities, and faiths. [For more detail on the subject of the film submission, see below.]

Subject Matter: Women Bought and Sold: Voices United Against the Violence aims to amplify the voices of women of all faiths and backgrounds living in Muslim-majority societies around the globe. The subject matter of the films must be pertinent to the scope of the Festival: (i) focus on the issues of sex trafficking, slavery, domestic servitude, forced marriage, and sexual harassment; portray both the plight and the relentless struggle of exploited women; display the role of men and women in Muslim-majority societies in eradicating such injustices; and develop the network committed to achieving justice and equality; (ii) amplify the voices of women living in Muslim- majority societies and Muslim women living as minorities around the globe; these women's struggles, the challenges they face, the solutions that have been identified, and the success stories that have resulted.

Submission: The Festival accepts submissions from both amateur and professional filmmakers. Pursuant to WVN's goal of reaching and educating people around the world, WVN requests that films be made available for viewing online. For submission guidelines and application forms, please visit the WVN Film Festival page on our website: http://womensvoicesnow.org/submit- film. 

Please carefully review the rules and regulations for each film category before submitting your film.

If you have any questions, please contact us via e-mail:

WVNfilmfestival2014@womensvoicesnow.org.

Prizes, Connections, and Gratitude: Women’s Voices Now will coordinate cash prizes to be awarded to the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and honorable mention winners in each film category based on the decisions of our panel of judges. We also hope that at the Festival events we intend to coordinate that you will connect with others who share your support and work for pro-women voices.

Support: WVN is a not-for-profit organization. Please also consider making a donation to our work by visiting our Donations page. Support our work by following us on Facebook and Twitter, and sign up for our newsletter and monthly publication, The WVoice.

Contact Information:

WVNfilmfestival2014@womensvoicesnow.org

www.womensvoicesnow.org 

MOHTARAMA Documentary film by Malek Shafi`i and Diana Saqib has been selected in YAGAMATA International Film Festival

A documentary film from Afghanistan has been selected in YAGAMATA International Documentary Film Festival.

MOHTARAMA is a joined project documentary by Malek Shafi’i and Diana Saqeb, tow Afghanistani documentary filmmakers based in Kabul.

19 short and feature documentaries has been selected to competing for the "New Asian Currents" Yamagata Documentary Film Festival.

In 2009, the Afghan Parliament approved the Shia Family Law, which was then signed by President Karzai. The law severely restricted women’s freedom, making it illegal for them to exit the house without their husband’s consent or resisting to their husband’s sexual demands.

The Afghan women who were against this law, gathered and protested in front of Afghanistan’s biggest religious school where the law was written with support from Sheikh Asif Mohsini (an Islamic scholar and the founder of the school). The protests turned violent as the students of the school began humiliating the women protestors by beating, spitting, and labeling them as “Western followers”.

This was one of the first major movements by women for their rights. This seemed to be the right time to visit other provinces to learn about the concerns and challenges of the educated Afghan women and their hopes and expectations from women movements.

Muhtarama is mainly about the educated Afghan women and their common concerns that ranges from lack of political and social rights to domestic violence and troubled married lives to street harassment.

Muhtarama is a joint project undertaken by Diana Saqeb and Malek Shafi’i. In this movie, Malek Shafi’i follows Diana Saqeb, who is also one of the organizers of the protests against the Shia Law, and highlights the concerns and worries of like-minded women.

MOHTARAMA’s Trailer

21st YAGAMATA international documentary film festival will held on 10 to 17 October 2031 in Tokyo JAPAN. 

The 14. Izmir Short Film Festival

2013 Rules & Regulations
Deadline for submissions: September 1, 2013

All entries including the completion of the online entry form and sending of screeners must be submitted for arrival at the Festival offices by September 1, 2013.

Competition and Awards
International Competition – Golden Cat Award for Best Film
National Competition - Golden Cat Award for Best Film
National Competition - Golden Cat Award for Most Promising Actor/Actress

In addition to these awards, the Jury may also decide to give a Special Jury Award to a film in competition.

National and International Competition Regulations:

1. Each year, the Izmir Short Film Festival opens a short film competition in the National andInternational categories. Narrative, documentary, animated and experimental shorts are eligible for the competitions.

2. All applicants should fill out the application form online. Incomplete entry forms will not be considered.

3. The jury is comprised of a president and four members chosen from among leading national and international figures in cinema, culture and art. The decisions of the Jury are final.

4. All productions made on 35mm, 16mm or in digital and video formats are eligible for the festival. All submissions should be recorded in DVD/HD or BLURAY (PAL format).

5. All submissions that are not in English must have English subtitles.

6. The following materials should be sent for a film submission:
The online entry form, duly filled out, which includes the film credits, a short synopsis of the film, director’s biography and filmography.

One multi-zone or region-free DVD copy of the film OR a password-protected link (e.g. Vimeo) with English subtitles (to be included in the online entry form). Each DVD must be clearly marked with the film’s title, director’s name, year and country of production and runtime.

The Festival address is:

İzmir Short Film Festival, Attn: Program Department
Cumhuriyet Bulvari No: 133 Okan Apt. K:6 D:5
Alsancak 35220 Izmir, Turkey.
Phone: +90 232 466 0202, E-mail: program@izmirkisafilm.org

7. The International Competition is open to entries from all nations. In order to be able to compete in the National Competition, the director or one of the producers must be a . 7. Turkish citizen. All films that are eligible for the National Competition will also be considered for the International Competition.

8. The films must not exceed 30 minutes.

9. To be eligible for the competitions, the films must not have been released or publicly screened before October 2012.

10. Unless approved in advance by the Festival, films may not be publicly broadcast via TV, Internet or otherwise, prior to or during the Festival’s 2013 edition.

11. Applicants may submit more than one film.

12. Festival will send out film invitations by September 2013. The invitation will include a list of materials to be duly completed and returned to the Festival within two weeks of receiving the invitation. An English dialog list is required for all films, even those in English, to be used for subtitling in Turkish. All exhibition copies must reach the Festival offices no later than October 30, 2013. If the exhibition copy is not in perfect condition, the Festival may refuse to present it. The Festival reserves the right to withdraw a film that it deems technically unsuitable for screening.

13. Films submitted cannot be withdrawn after October 15, 2013.

14. The Festival reserves the right to screen each film up to three times during the Festival period and will decide, at its sole discretion, the screening schedule for each film.

15. The Festival program will be announced by November 1, 2013 on www.izmirkisafilm.org.

16. The Festival reserves the right to assign each film to the section it believes most appropriate.

17. The invitation must remain strictly confidential until the Festival’s program is officially announced. Any exception must be approved in writing by the Festival.

18. Work-in-progress projects may be submitted but must be identified as such on the entry form. A final version of the film must arrive at Festival offices by October 15, 2013.

19. Shipping costs for submissions must be covered by the sender. Submission materials will not be returned.

20. The Festival reserves the right not to comment on the reasons for not selecting a film.

21. The Festival reserves the right to change the above Rules & Regulations without notice.

22. Submission of a film implies unconditional acceptance of the Rules & Regulations.

Plese click here to apply online.

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SUBMIT YOUR FILMS TO ZAGREBDOX 2014

The deadline for submissions is October 15, 2013.

Directors, producers and other film authorities are hereby invited to submit documentary films for the 9th International Documentary Film Festival ZagrebDox, taking place in Zagreb from  February 23 to March 2, 2014.

Submissions can only be made by filling out the online form.

The festival program consists of the Competition Program, Official Program (special thematic programs) and Retrospectives.

The Competition Program consists of International Competition and Regional Competition.

The International Competition includes films from all over the world, except those competing in the Regional Competition.

Eligible to compete in the Regional Competition are the films produced or co-produced in one of the following countries: Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Croatia, Italy, Kosovo, Macedonia, Hungary, Serbia, Slovenia and Romania.

Only the documentary films completed after 1 January, 2012 can compete in the Competition Program.

The deadline for submissions is 15 October, 2013.

There is no submission charge.

The entry rules and conditions can be found on the user pages upon registration.

Please contact info@zagrebdox.net for any additional inquiries.

Call for Entry Tricky Women 2014

Tricky Women Award of the City of Vienna worth 4000 Euro
3-month scholarship to live and work at quartier21/MQ under the Artist-in-Residence Program
Synchro Film & Video Material Prize worth 1,500 Euro
Sawczynski-Award worth 1,000 Euro
Sielecki Award worth 750 Euro (for an Austrian animation)
Tricky Women Audience Award
Awards and prize money will go to the directresses of the films.

The festival offers an international competition of animated short films realised by female artists (male co-directors are welcome) and finished after January 1st, 2012. Each filmmaker, producer or distributor may submit as many films as they like. Each film submitted must be accompanied by an entry form and sent on a separate DVD. No films entered in prior Tricky Women Festivals shall be admitted.

The deadline for applications for the preliminary selection is October 18th, 2013.

The entry can (and that is NEW!) be up-loaded via www.shortfilmdepot.com or sent by snail mail directly to Tricky Women.

Announcement for AHRF Student section!

Announcement for AHRF Student section! 

AHRF are delighted to inform you about final selection of 'Afghanistan Human Rights FilmFestival' student section. The selection committee members , including Mss. Dr.Homayra Qaderi, Mr. Aziz Dildar (professors of Kabul University) and Mr. Ibrahim Bamyani (Documentary Filmmaker) selected 12 movies from total 33 movies which we received this year from students of universities of Afghanistan. 

AHRF will announce the main AHRF selection committee members at next.

Mourteza Shahed and Fatima Husseini from Afghanistan in ASIAN FILM ACADEMY.

Mourteza Shahed and Fatima Hassani from Afghanistan has been selected to attend in 9th Asian Film Academy.

Busan International Film Festival has announced the 24 fellows for 9th Asian Film Academy (AFA) which will train future Asian filmmakers. This year, 228 applicants have submitted applications for AFA under a competitive rate of 9.5:1 that shows the consistent interest in AFA by Asian filmmakers.