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.

Ali Mousavi Azad with "The Value of Women?" in 15th Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival

The Value of Women? bas been selected in 15th Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival.

"The Value of Women?" short documentary by Ali Mousavi Azad and Es`haq Alimardany has been selected in 15th Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival.

"The Vale of Women?" story is about Women living in the Islamic society of Afghanistan are not content with their situation and lack of freedom. They believe some Islamic laws prevent them from doing the things they want: choosing a spouse, pursuing an education and working outside the home.

This film also was official selection in Women`s Voices Now Film Festival in USA on 2011.

Last year "Uncrowded" Short fiction film by Ali Mousavi Azad with 2 others short films from Afghanistan was selected on TAU International Film Festival.

This festival will held on 19-24 June 2013 in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Second Afghanistan Human Rights Film Festival (AHRF)

Open Call for entries: Afghanistan Human Rights Film Festival (AHRF),
Kabul, Afghanistan
Deadline: June 30, 2013

AHRF is pleased to invite entries from film makers, both national and international, for its first film festival to be held in Kabul,
AHRF seeks to be a new window to an open and better society by screening critical films on human rights.
The festival welcomes films in all genres: short or long, documentary, feature, animation and experimental. All films should have been produced no earlier than 2000. National and international entries are welcome. All films should have human rights as their main focus.

Please refer to AHRF rules and regulation document to learn more about submission rules.
Contact us for more information:
www.ahrfestival.org
info@ahrfestival.org
submit@ahrfestival.org
+93 7000 83 908
+93 777 14 6666

Short films to compete at Cannes announced

New Zealand director Jane Campion, who won the Palme d'Or in 1993 for "The Piano" and the top short film prize in 1986 for "Peel" will head the jury.

The short film selection committee sifted through over 3,500 submissions from filmmakers in 132 countries to pick just nine to compete at the film fest.

The works selected are: Ali Asgari "More Than Two Hours" (Iran); Mohammed Abou Nasser "Condom Lead" (Palestinian Territories, Jordan); Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson "Whale Valley" (Iceland, Denmark); Sasaki Omoi "The Meteorite and Impotence" (Japan); Gilles Coulier "Mont Blanc" (Belgium); Elzbieta Benkowska "Olena" (Poland); Annarita Zambrano "Ophelia" (France); Moon Byounggon "Safe" (South Korea); and Adriano Valerio "374S" (France).

Cannes organisers also unveiled the 18 films selected to compete in the Cinefondation selection which highlights student films from around the world.

They include 14 fiction films and four animated films chosen from the 1,500-odd films submitted.

Three Cinefondation prizes will be awarded.

Nine films will compete for the short film Palme d'Or at next month's Cannes film festival, including a Palestinian work for the first time, organisers said. New Zealand director Jane Campion, pictured in Berlin on February 11, 2013, will head the jury.

Afghan films at Guggenheim NYC

MARCH 12, 2013 BY PASCALE BASTIDE

History of Histories: Afghan Films, 1960 to Present

Fri, Mar 1, 15, 22, and 29, 2 pm

Organized by independent curator Leeza Ahmady and artist Mariam Ghani, this series of fiction films, newsreels, and documentaries juxtaposes contemporary work with selections from the archive of Afghanistan’s national film institute, and documents Afghanistan’s history and vibrant culture. English subtitles.

Leeza Ahmady and Mariam Ghani introduce the film program on March 1 and March 29.

Qadar Tahiri, Khan-e-Tarikh(The House of History), 1996. Courtesy Afghan Films

March 1, 2 pm

Selections from the Afghan Films Archive(1967–80, 54 min.)

In these newsreels, documentary and propaganda shorts, and feature film clips drawn from the archive of Afghan Films, Afghanistan’s national film institute, the changing fashions, mores and politics of the constantly reconfigured state are reflected. With films from the end of the monarchy (the Zahir Shah period), the Daoud republic, the Afghan Communist republic, and the Soviet puppet state.

Khan-e-Tarikh
(The House of History, 1996, 20 min., dir. Qader Tahiri)

The only documentary produced by Afghan Films during the civil war years, The House of History is an intensely personal essay film directed by longtime cameramen Qader Tahiri that incorporates footage shot by six other cameramen from 1991–96 and poetic narration by Sher Mohammed Khara. The first half chronicles the destruction of Kabul during the civil war, while the second half meditates on the ruin of Kabul’s archaeological museum and the efforts to save fragments left behind after its destruction in 1991.

Fiction Shorts by the Jump Cut Film Collective
(2009–10, 10 min.)

The Jump Cut Film Collective was founded in Kabul in 2009 by a group of young, independent filmmakers who share both production duties and formal concerns. In the Name of Opium (dir. Sayed Jalal Hussaini) lies at the more experimental end of their output, with a completely nontraditional, circular or open-ended narrative structure and no dialogue. Formally, however, it is among the most completely realized of their films, with strong cinematography setting up a series of memorable images, each a small story in itself, and each a part of a larger opium-driven vicious cycle.

Feature: Akhtar Maskara
(Akhtar the Joker, 1980, 90 min., dir. Latif Ahmadi)

A stinging social critique of the gap between rich and poor, old and new Kabulis at the end of the 1970s, and the story of an unusual young man who falls into the cracks in between. Based on the novel by Aham Rahaward Zariab, and commissioned by the Parcham government, the film was shot by beloved director Latif Ahmadi in only 18 days; perhaps because of the literary source material, perhaps because of the compressed production time, it has a quality unlike anything else in Afghan cinema, with sharp cinematography, a twisting plot, and occasional breaks where our unreliable narrator (Faqir Nabi) addresses the camera directly.

Total run time 169 min.

Barmak Akram, Kabuli Kid, 2009

March 15, 2 pm

Documentary Shorts from Ateliers Varan Kabul
(2011, 47 min.)

Ateliers Varan, the documentary training program initiated by direct cinema pioneer Jean Rouch, has operated workshops in Kabul since 2006, in cooperation with Afghan Films and Radio Television Afghanistan. Shorts produced in Varan Kabul workshops have been screened in major documentary film festivals and broadcast internationally. The shorts Dusty Night and The Postman were produced during a workshop around “The Streets of Kabul,” and observe the rituals and rhythms of the city without judgment or commentary, unless offered by the participants observed. In Mohamed Ali Hazara’s Dusty Night, a group of street cleaners who fight a losing battle against the ever-present dust coating the city, and in Wahid Nazir’s The Postman, the eponymous postman Khan Agha attempts to deliver mail in a city reconstructed without a formal system of street names or house numbers.

Fiction Shorts by the Jump Cut Film Collective
(2009–10, 28 min.)

The Jump Cut Film Collective was founded in Kabul in 2009 by a group of young, independent filmmakers, who share both production duties and formal concerns. The early shorts ANT (dir. Hashem Didari) and Devious (dir. Sayed Jalal Hussaini) display Jump Cut’s preoccupation with narrative filmmaking that uses nonlinear temporal structures, as well as their interest in the illegal and informal economies, the petty and not so petty thefts, grifts, and deceits that spring from the inequities and poverty of Kabul.

Feature: Kabuli Kid
(2009, 94 min., dir. Barmak Akram)

In writer-director Barmak Akram’s debut feature, the life of cab driver Khaled (Hadji Gul) is thrown for a loop when he discovers that his last passenger left an infant boy in the backseat. Determined to do the right thing, Khaled embarks upon a chaotic adventure from one end of war-torn Kabul to the other to find the mother, all the while finding himself increasingly attached to the young life that fate has placed in his hands.

Total run time 169 min.

Latif Ahmadi, Akhtar Maskara(Akhtar the Joker), 1980. Courtesy of Afghan Films

March 22, 2 pm

Selections from the Afghan Films Archive
(1967–80, 54 min.)

In these newsreels, documentary and propaganda shorts, and feature film clips drawn from the archive of Afghan Films, Afghanistan’s national film institute, the changing fashions, mores, and politics of the constantly reconfigured state are reflected. With films from the end of the monarchy (the Zahir Shah period), the Daoud republic, the Afghan Communist republic, and the Soviet puppet state.

Khan-e-Tarikh
(The House of History, 1996, 20 min., dir. Qader Tahiri)

The only documentary produced by Afghan Films during the civil war years, The House of History is an intensely personal essay film directed by longtime cameramen Qader Tahiri that incorporates footage shot by six other cameramen from 1991–96, and poetic narration by Sher Mohammed Khara. The first half chronicles the destruction of Kabul during the civil war, while the second half meditates on the ruin of Kabul’s archaeological museum and the efforts to save fragments left behind after its destruction in 1991.

Fiction Shorts by the Jump Cut Film Collective
(2009–10, 10 min.)

The Jump Cut Film Collective was founded in Kabul in 2009 by a group of young, independent filmmakers, who share both production duties and formal concerns. In the Name of Opium (dir. Sayed Jalal Hussaini) lies at the more experimental end of their output, with a completely nontraditional, circular or open-ended narrative structure and no dialogue. Formally, however, it is among the most completely realized of their films, with strong cinematography setting up a series of memorable images, each a small story in itself, and each a part of a larger opium-driven vicious cycle.

Feature: Akhtar Maskara
(Akhtar the Joker, 1980, 90 min., dir. Latif Ahmadi)

A stinging social critique of the gap between rich and poor, old and new Kabulis at the end of the 1970s, and the story of an unusual young man who falls into the cracks in between. Based on the novel by Aham Rahaward Zariab, and commissioned by the Parcham government, the film was shot by beloved director Latif Ahmadi in only eighteen days; perhaps because of the literary source material, perhaps because of the compressed production time, it has a quality unlike anything else in Afghan cinema, with sharp cinematography, a twisting plot, and occasional breaks where our unreliable narrator (Faqir Nabi) addresses the camera directly.

Total running time 174 min

Toryalai Shafaq, Mujasemaha Mekhandan (The Sculptures Are Laughing), 1976. Courtesy of Afghan Films

March 29, 2 pm

Documentary Shorts from Ateliers Varan Kabul(2011, 47 min.)

Ateliers Varan, the documentary training program initiated by direct cinema pioneer Jean Rouch, has operated workshops in Kabul since 2006, in cooperation with Afghan Films and Radio Television Afghanistan. Shorts produced in Varan Kabul workshops have been screened in major documentary film festivals and broadcast internationally. The shorts Dusty Night and The Postman were produced during a workshop around “The Streets of Kabul,” and observe the rituals and rhythms of the city without judgment or commentary, unless offered by the participants observed. In Mohamed Ali Hazara’s Dusty Night, a group of street cleaners who fight a losing battle against the ever-present dust coating the city, and in Wahid Nazir’s The Postman, the eponymous postman Khan Agha attempts to deliver mail in a city reconstructed without a formal system of street names or house numbers.

Fiction Shorts by the Jump Cut Film Collective
(2009–10, 28 min.)

The Jump Cut Film Collective was founded in Kabul in 2009 by a group of young, independent filmmakers, who share both production duties and formal concerns. The early shorts ANT (dir. Hashem Didari) and Devious (dir. Sayed Jalal Hussaini) display Jump Cut’s preoccupation with narrative filmmaking that uses nonlinear temporal structures, as well as their interest in the illegal and informal economies, the petty and not so petty thefts, grifts, and deceits that spring from the inequities and poverty of Kabul.

Feature: Mujasemaha Mekhandan
(The Sculptures Are Laughing, 1976, 81 min., dir. Toryalai Shafaq)

The deliriously paced story of an artist who falls in love with a spoiled rich girl, who marries a gangster that then draws both her and her former love into his wacky schemes. A window into life in Daoud’s republic, from art school and fashion shows to house parties and weddings.

Total run time 156 min.

Source

"Kallo School" by Sahra Mousavi in Italy

"Kaloo School" by Sahra Mousavi in Film Festival, Film Middle east now Florence.

before "Kaloo School" short documentary by Sahra Mosawi was one of the winners in 5th Annual International Women and Minorities in Media Festival

"Kaloo School": In rural north Afghanistan there is a village with 2500 families but only two schools. Every child spends about 5 hours getting to school, which is hard and sometimes impossible, especially for girls. This documentary is a symbol of present Afghan life, trying to build back and to show how how the present day life for Afghan people and children after the NATO invasion. 

The Florence International Film Festival will held on 3-8 April 2013.

Call for entry of KUKI International Short Film Festival for children and youth berlin 2013

Submit Films

Submit films from March 1 to
May 24 2013

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Films should be no longer than 20 minutes.

Regulations (pdf)

Submit films for:

KUKI 6th International Short Film Festival for Children and Youth Berlin 2013

10 - 17 November 2013

Entry deadline: May 24 2013

The coming KUKI festival will present approximately 100 films during eight festival days in various competition categories and special programmes. Short films selected for competition will compete for a total cash prize pool of €3000.

Children and youth juries will confer ‘KUKI Awards’ in the following categories:

Competitions
• International Films for Children
• International Films for Youth

Special Programmes
• Documentaries for Children and Youth
• Environmental Film Programme
• English, French & Spanish Foreign Language Programmes
• Workshops

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Last year a film under name "The Glasses" short film by S. Hussein Mousavi was official selection on this festival.

Source: interfilm website