IFFR 2007

Reza Haeri

Hot Spots

127 Band

Catalin Mitulescu

It’s early in the morning. His day starts with a crime. He has a tight schedule, but a strange car accident gets everything confused.

17 Minutes Later

Mohsen Khan-Jahani

Live music by the leading Romanian band Aievea (stimulating acid jazz, the band was deemed the best jazz band in Romania in 2002), VJ Casa Gontz and the classic guitar trained DJ Electric Brother (triphop, downtempo, chillout). Free entrance / walk-in-walk-out.

Bucharest Live 1

Presentation by Stefan Tiron, expert of the contemporary Bucharest underground artist scene, followed by the experimental music creations of yvat who blends electronic sound, dark electro-and abstract hip hop symphonic league occasionally mixed with classical opera music. The images are provided by VJ Cut (Paul Dersidan). DJ Megatron (Stefan Tiron) concludes the evening. Free entrance / walk-in-walk-out.

Bucharest Live 2

The short film Nothing by Chance by Cristian Mungiu opens this full-length programme. With a spectacular performance by the Shukar Collective, an original combination of Romanian gypsy and electronic music, followed by performances by VJ Casa Gontz and the innovative DJ Vasile, one of the pioneers of the underground scene after the revolution. Free entrance / walk-in-walk-out.

Bucharest Live 3

Live music by Suie Paparude, three energetic guys with special electronic contemporary easy dubbed Techno with bizarre yet smooth Romanian expressions and explosions, followed by a performance by DJ Haute Culture. Free entrance / walk-in-walk-out.

Bucharest Live 4

Early film by Mitulescu, to introduce his latest full-length feature.

Bucuresti - Wien 8:15

Cristian Nemescu

C Block Story

Saeed Dehghani

Short documentary about smuggling in southern Iran, instead of unemployment and poverty. In the meantime it is already a popular career choice among children.

Contrast

Mehdi Naderi

Daughters of Sunshine

Maani Petgar

Short film about the absurd experiences of people during a complete eclipse of the sun.

An Eclipse Which Dropped From the Sky

Abjeez

Eddea

Reza Tahami

Het elfje

Alireza Rasulinezhad

Trilogy about contemporary Iran. The nephew and niece of a discouraged intellectual from Tehran find an independent film and its notes about social and cultural questions. Inspired, they decide to make a film themselves.

Exteriors

Cristian Mungiu

The Firemen's Choir

Flathouse People are Dying for Music

Sarah Saidan

Fortune Telling

Naghi Nemati

Free Line

Corneliu Porumboiu

Country kid from Romania wants to emigrate and has to have a medical test first. On the way it gets a little too enjoyable.

Gone With the Wine

The Hand of Paulista

Hanno Höfer

Humanitarian Aid

A short film about state imposed limitations on the Internet. Kids of course know ways to get around them.

Internet

Nader Takmil Homayoun

Thorough and intelligent documentary about the history of Iranian film provides a beautiful picture of the consequences of the revolution on the film culture. From the first full-length film dating from 1933 (a comedy) to present-day masters such as Abbas Kiarostami and Moshen Makhmalbaf.

Iran: une revolution cinematographique

Mostafa Heravi

It is Written

Khastegaari

Bogdan George Apetri

Last Day of December

Liviu's Dream

Mid-length, bittersweet coming-of-age story about a teenager who steals a bus to impress the prostitute he’s in love with.

Marilena de la P7

Abes Borhan

Mariya

Mihai si Cristina

Reza Bahrami

Mister Art

Atousa Bandeh Ghiasabadi

My Own 1000 Square Meters

Nothing By Change

Picabia: Reza Abedini

Romanian Art Scene - Presentation by Maria Rus Bojan

Hamed Khosravi

Round 205

Amir Toude Rousta

Shining

Amir Hamz

Mark Lazarz

The contemporary independent music world in Iran seems to be swinging and developing strongly, but nothing is further from the truth. Musicians are kept on a short leash and the independent music industry is more or less banned. But talent develops underground when faced with censorship.

Sounds of Silence

Story Telling: Sahand Sahebdivani

Massoud Bakhshi

Documentary fiction/comedy about a documentary crew that wants to map the history of Tehran but becomes disillusioned. With archive material and evidence by city-dwellers visually interwoven while it is clear the characters don’t really exist. Crazy, dynamic, pleasantly young and intelligent.

Tehran Has No More Pomegranates!

Energetic music programme from Iran with a performance by Reveal, DJ Manny and VJ Arash. Reveal made together with rapper Hich-Kas the underground hit Tripee Maa with classic Persian instruments that put Iranian hip-hop on the world map. Free entrance / walk-in-walk-out.

Tehran Live 1

Varied presentation (and film) by Iran’s leading graphic designer Reza Abedini, live music from Sara (soulful vocal performance from pop and rock to soul and jazz), and DJ Ishtar who combines various styles, from atmospheric mellow moods to mystic lounge and upbeat world dance with contemporary electronic world music. Free entrance / walk-in-walk-out.

Tehran Live 2

Live performance by Mohsen Namjoo. His music is honest and sincere, very emotionally charged and expresses a deep faith in the future. DJ ART concludes the programme. Free entrance / walk-in-walk-out.

Tehran Live 3

Hot Spots finale party with a live performance by Abjeez, (Farsi slang for sisters, Safoura and Melody Safavi), swinging world music with humorous, rebellious lyrics reminiscent of The Specials. And sparkling performances by Sufi and VJ Arash. Free entrance / walk-in-walk-out.

Tehran Live 4

Corina Ilie

On his way to a business meeting, Tudor has a 20-minute break. Enough time to invite a girl for coffee, talk about his daughter and take a photo. Won the Golden Palm at Cannes.

Traffic

A Trip to the City

Harun Farocki

Andrei Ujica

Reconstruction of a revolution. During the fall of Ceausescu in Romania in 1989, demonstrators took over state television to broadcast their revolution. The filmmakers compress 125 hours of TV.

Videogramme einer Revolution

Bizhan Mirbagheri

An Ironic family story. Six years ago, Jamshid left for Europe and has not been in touch since. Suddenly a strange man asks if the family would like to record a video message for Jamshid. This reveals the complicated choices that the family had to make after his departure.

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