The names of 14 feature-length documentaries and 34 short and semi-length documentaries that have qualified for the 9th International Shahr (City) Film Festival have been announced.
According to Artmag.ir, citing ISNA, the secretariat of the 9th International Shahr (City) Film Festival announced the names of the 14 feature-length documentaries that have qualified for this edition of the festival as follows:
1- Documentary “The Elevator” directed by Javad Razaghizadeh and produced by Mohammad Kart
2- Documentary “The Day the Stones Fell” directed by Saeed Sadeghi Sararudi and produced by Ahmad Shafiei
3- Documentary “Iranian Benz” directed and produced by Reza Ostadi
4- Documentary “The Khalaj Family” directed and produced by Maryam Elhamian
5- Documentary “Mother Shokoh’s House” directed by Mehdi Bakhshi Moghadam and produced by Mehdi Shamohmmadi
6- Documentary “The Hallway of Paradise” directed and produced by Mohammad Hassan Abedinejad
7- Documentary “In the Middle of Love” directed by Mina Ghasemi Zavareh and produced by Mina Ghasemi Zavareh and Alireza Dehghan
8- Documentary “Diaphragm” directed and produced by Javad Vatani
9- Documentary “The Winter That Was Not Forgotten” directed and produced by Pouria Torabi
10- Documentary “How Iraq Became Arak” Directed and produced by Saeed Shahhosseini
11- Documentary “Uninhabited” directed and produced by Masoud Zareian
12- Documentary “Evil Deaf Ear” directed and produced by Mehdi Bostani Shahrebabaki
13- Documentary “Old Man’s Bag” directed by Ali Rastegar and produced by Milad Bagheri
14- Documentary “A Foot of Soil” directed and produced by Nima Mahdian
The names of the 34 short and semi-length documentaries that have qualified for this festival are as follows:
1- Documentary “The Tattooed Dragon” directed and produced by Ali Ghasemi
2- Documentary “Confession” directed by Mostafa Sabouri and produced by Amin Delkhasteh
3- Documentary “Omid” directed by Nima Azimmoradi and produced by Kasra Ghanbari
4- Documentary “This House and My Mother’s Leprosy” directed and produced by Navid Sadeghi
5- Documentary “Ashti Kanan” directed by Tina Safahieh and produced by Mohammad Javad Amirani
6- Documentary “That Night” directed and produced by Mina Ghasemi Zavareh
7- Documentary “Dance with Me” directed by Mohammad Safa and produced by Seyyed Jamal Oudsimin
8- Documentary “Torghrol Tower” directed and produced by Abbas Mohammadi Gilvaei
9- Documentary “Bemani” directed and produced by Mohammad Reza Dehestani
10- Documentary “Until the Winds Blow Memories” directed and produced by Ahmad Sarraf Yazd
11- Documentary “The Loving Merchant” directed and produced by Rahbar Ghanbari
12- Documentary “The Road of Bones” directed and produced by Behrouz Nooranipour
13- Documentary “Who Moved My Cheese” directed and produced by Ezzatollah Parvazeh
14- Documentary “The Story of a City” directed and produced by Hassan Khamseh
15- Documentary “The Pomegranate Lesson” directed by Sajjad Parhizkari and produced by Pouria Najafi
16- Documentary “The Southern Gate” directed by Mohsen Alam Hohadi and produced by Mostafa Shoghi
17- Documentary “The Path of the Nurse” directed by Ahmad Seyed Kashmiri and produced by Afsaneh Heydari
18- Documentary “The Life of Amir Ali” directed by Ali Al Hayari and produced by Fariba Azimzadeh and Ali Allah Yari
19- Documentary “Six Floors” directed by Ayoub Marvanipour and produced by Amineh Baraiyeh and Ayoub Marvanipour
20- Documentary “My City Unveiled” directed by Ahmad Noormohammadi and produced by the Youth Cinema Association
21- Documentary “The Sound of Water Steps” directed and produced by Amir Hadi Malek Esmaili
22- Documentary “Zero” directed by Mohammad Bagher Khodadoust and Leyli Norouzi and produced by Leyli Norouzi Sadeh
23- Documentary “Amunaser” directed and produced by Ali Tak Roosta
24- Documentary “Qalamdar” directed by Hamidreza Maghsoudi Dagdari and produced by Ata Panahi
25- Documentary “Katayoun” directed by Mohammad Naseri Rad and produced by Reza Danesh Pajouh
26- Documentary “Kahang Bana” directed and produced by Tamanna Balouchi
27- Documentary “Mirath Madadh” directed and produced by Nasim Soheili
28- Documentary “Misophonia” directed and produced by Sogand Rezaei
29- Documentary “Freedom Guest” directed by Reza Heydari and Reza Ostadi and produced by Reza Ostadi
30- Documentary “Whisper from afar” directed and produced by Mehdi Meysami
31- Documentary “Nineteen and Ninety Nine” directed and produced by Leila Rostami Shokoh
32- Documentary “One Thousand and One Nights in Baladieh” directed and produced by Ahmad Sarraf Yazd
33- Documentary “Holine in Iran” directed and produced by Hadi Afarideh
34- Documentary “More Real Than Documentary” directed by Farid Fallahi and produced by Maryam Bahr ul Oloumi
The 9th International Shar Film Festival, under the direction of Maryam Pirkari, will be held from November 10 to 12, 2025, at the Mellat Cinema Campus, and the festival will close on November 14, 2025, at the Milad Tower Conference Center.
