Tehran International Short Film Festival Location Tehran , Iran Founded 1983 (1983 ) Awards Grand Prix Best Fiction Short Best Documentary Best Animation Best Experimental Short Best AI Short Emerging Horizons Award Hosted by Iranian Youth Cinema Society Artistic director Behrooz Shoaibi Website www.tisff.ir/english
Tehran International Short Film Festival (TISFF) is a film festival held in Tehran every year in October with a focus on short films .
Considered the most prestigious film festival in Iran, the festival was first founded in 1983.[ 1] [ 2] Academy Awards [ 3] AMPAS .
Organized by the Iranian Youth Cinema Society , Tehran International Short Film Festival has acted as a global platforms for emerging talents from all around the world. Previous winners at various editions of the festival include internationally-acclaimed artists such as Academy Award nominees Jasmila Žbanić , Ashvin Kumar , Patrick Vollrath , Jérémy Comte , Meryam Joobeur , Bill Morrison , Golden Globe nominee Payal Kapadia (filmmaker) , and Academy Award winners Hossein Molayemi and Shirin Sohani .
International Competition Jury at the 35th Tehran International Short Film Festival 36th Tehran International Short Film Festival
History
In 1983 the festival was first created as a section of the Fajr Film Festival showcasing 8mm and 16mm films. The event then became its own independent festival and was subsequently renamed the "Youth Cinema Festival" and later the "International Youth Cinema Festival", hosting works by young artists across three categories: film, photography, and screenwriting.
With the festival’s increasing specialization in 2003, it adopted the title "Tehran International Short Film Festival", which it has retained ever since, exclusively focusing on short films from Iran and around the world. Since 2020, this festival has become the first and only short film festival in Iran where shorts can qualify for Academy Award consideration.[ 4]
The 43rd Edition of TISFF will be held between 19 and 24 October 2026 in Tehran, Iran.[ 5] [ 6]
Awards
Consisting of two different sections, the festival offers the following awards, each decided by a separate panel of juries:
International Competition
Editions
Members of the National Competition Jury at the 41st Tehran International Short Film Festival, from left to right: Farzad Motamen , Kamal Tabrizi , Dornaz Hajiha, Shahab Hosseini , Maysam Molaei, Mohammadreza Shafah & Arman Fayyaz
1st Edition
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Festival President Juries Event Date
Mohammadali Asna'Ashar Morterza Pourazhari, Hojatollah Seifi, Hamid Dehghanpour, Majid Javanmard 1-11 February 1983
2nd Edition
Festival President Juries Event Date
Mohammadali Asna'ashar Mohammad Etesami, Seyfollah Daad, Hamid Dehghanpour, Mahmoud Nazaralian, Naser Abdollahinegar
1-11 February 1984
Award Film Name Recipient
Best Short Film The Other Amir Shahab Razavian
3rd Edition
Festival President Juries Event Date
Saeed Hajimiri Behrouz Afkhami , Kamal Tabrizi , Javad Salimi, Mohammad Afarideh, Mahmoud Arjmand5-11 February 1985
4th Edition
Festival President Juries Event Date
Saeed Hajimiri Ebrahim Hatamikia , Kamal Tabrizi , Saeed Hajimiri, Mohammad Afarideh, Mahmoud Arjmand27-31 March 1986
6th Edition
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Parviz Samadi Moghaddam Majid Gharizadeh, Farhod Saba, Karim Zargar, Mahdi Rahimian, Mohsen Sheikhi, Mahmood Arjmand
26- 31 March 1988
8th Edition
Festival President Juries Event Date
Parviz Samadi Moghaddam Rakhshan Banietemad , Mahmoud Kalari , Ali Moallem, Ensieh Shah Hosseini, Behrouz Gharibpour, Mohammadali Hosseinnejhad27-31 August 1990
Award Film Name Recipient
Best Short Film In His History Mehrdad Oskouei
9th Edition
Festival President Juries Event Date
Vahid Toofani Abolfazl Jalili , Mohammad Afarideh, Mahmoud Arjmand, Alireza Zohadi9-13 September 1991
10th Edition
Festival President Juries Event Date
Vahid Toofani Nader Ebrahimi , Jahangir Almasi , Abdollah Bakide, Mohammadali talebi, Masoume Ansari29 March - 1 April 1993
12th Edition
Festival President Juries Event Date
Vahid Toofani Mahmoud Kalari , Hamidreza Ashtianipour, Esmail Rahimzadeh, Dariush Norouzi, Mohammadjafar Sadeghi, Aliakbar Ghazinezam28 March - 1 April 1995
13th Edition
Festival President Juries Event Date
Mohammad Hossein Sufi Mahmoud Kalari , Hamidreza Ashtianipour, Aliakbar Ghazinezam, Naser Gholamrezai, Mohammadjafar Safi18-23 July 1996
15th Edition
Festival President Juries Event Date
Mohammad Hossein Sufi Nasser Taghvai , Kamal Tabrizi , Bahram Dehghani , Ahmad Alasti, Keyvan Jahanshahi, Gholam Heidari, Mohammad Davoodi, Mojtaba Raie, Ahmad Talebinejhad13-17 April 1998
16th Edition
Festival President Juries Event Date
Jafar Sanei Moghaddam Majid Majidi , Kamal Tabrizi , Kiumars Pourahmad , Mahvash Sheikholeslami, Ali Mohammad Ghasemi, Mohammadali Talebi29 September - 3 October 1999
Award (National Competition) Film Name Recipient
Best Film Life in Fog Bahman Ghobadi
Best Fiction Short My Hometown, The Marsh Mehrdad Oskouei
Award (International Competition) Film Name Recipient
Best Film I Am But a Doll (Iran) Parivash Nazarieh
Best Fiction Short An Eternity (South Korea) Kim Dae Hyun
Best Documentary Short Internal 55 (Poland) Estav Amirfabiki
Best Animated Short Twin (Finland) Milia Ahula
17th Edition
Festival President Juries Event Date
Jafar Sanei Moghaddam Nasser Taghvai , Kianoush Ayari , Reza Sobhani, Ahmad Alasti, Ahmad Zabeti Jahromi, Zaven Ghokasian, Zita Karvalhosa, Asako Fujioka26 October - 1 November 2000
Award (National Competition) Film Name Recipient
Best Film Cinema Dog Shahed Ahmadloo
Award (International Competition) Film Name Recipient
Best Film Yomut: a House, a Tribe (Iran) Farshad Fadaian
Best Fiction Short Charsho (Iran) Mahvash Sheikholeslami
Best Documentary Short Rojgiran (Iran) Mehrdad Oskouei & Ebrahim Saeedi
Best Animated Short Moon Man (Germany) Chris Steiner & Arvid Weibel
Best Experimental Short Musical Piece for Four Stairs and One Person (Germany) Olaf Giur
18th Edition
Festival President Juries Event Date
Jafar Sanei Moghaddam Majid Majidi , Rakhshan Banietemad , Mohammad Reza Aslani , Reza Mirkarimi , Ali Moallem, Mario Vitalone, Constantine Pasallis23-28 October 2001
Award (National Competition) Film Name Recipient
Best Film If the Walls Could Talk Nader Sheikholeslami
Award (Interational Competition) Film Name Recipient
Best Film Naked of Evil (Greece) / Drooped in Water (Turkery) / Butterfly on the Shoulder (Iran) Ari Bafalouka / Anwar Ardam / Parvin Donyafar
Best Fiction Short Meska Sprawa (Poland) Slawomir Fabicki
Best Documentary Short Black House (Bangladesh ) Tariq Shahyar
Best Animated Short Values (USA) Van Phan
Best Experimental Short Camouflage (England) Jonathan Hudson
19th Edition
Festival President Juries Event Date
Mojtaba Eghdami Kambuzia Partovi , Alireza Shoja Nouri Jafar Sanei Moghaddam, Alireza Raisian, Mohammadreza Jafari Jelveh, Parviz Samadi Moghaddam21-26 October 2002
Award (National Competition) Film Name Recipient
Best Film Caravan Mohsen Amiryoussefi
Award (International Competition) Film Name Recipient
Best Film Two Women (Iran) Amir Rezazadeh
Best Fiction Short Leonard (Scottland) Brian Kelly
Best Documentary Short We Live at the Edge (Belarus) Victor Alirus
Best Animated Short Clown (Russia) Irnia Onira
Best Experimental Short 17 Minutes (Poland & England) Lala Rashij
20th Edition
Festival President Juries Event Date
Mohammad Afarideh Kamal Tabrizi , Mohammad Davoudi (screenwriter) , Alireza Shoja Nouri , Reza Maghsoudi, Ahmad Alasti, Peter Vien, Erich Reyes, Sigo Tono, Silon Marit20-25 October 2003
Award (National Competition) Film Name Recipient
Best Film The last Uncounted Village Shahram Alidi
Best Fiction Short The Trouble of Being a Boy Jamil Rostami
Best Documentary Short The Window Behzad Rasoulzadeh
Best Experimental Short The Dragonfly Storm Shahram Mokri
Award (International Competition) Film Name Recipient
Best Fiction Short Ferdinand (Estonia) Andrei Loop
Best Documentary Short Red Rubber Boots (Bosnia) Jasmila Žbanić
Best Animated Short Hole (Iran) Vahid Nasirian
Best Experimental Short Mojgan (Korea) Kim Hue Ho
21st Edition
Festival President Juries Event Date
Mohammad Afarideh Masoud Jafari Jozani , Soheila Najm, Manouchehr Tayab, Akbar Nabavi, Mojtaba Raei, Mohammadreza Sokoot, Mitzi Goldman, Andrey Kalpakchi, Christian Braad Thomsen17-22 November 2004
Award (National Competition) Film Name Recipient
Best Film I Speak to God Kaveh Bahrami Moghaddam
Best Fiction Short That Poopak Mozafari
Best Documentary Short The Wall Arash Kordsali
Best Animated Short Contrast Vahid Nasirian
Best Experimental Short The Dream of a Dragonfly Mahdi Asadi
Award (International Competition) Film Name Recipient
Best Film Little Terrorist (India)Ashvin Kumar
Best Fiction Short That (Iran) Poopak Mozaffari
Best Documentary Short Land of Mist (Denmark) Suvi Andrea Helminen
Best Animated Short Kerji (Germany) Jan Touring
Best Experimental Short Road Martin Meija
22nd Edition
Festival President Juries Event Date
Mojtaba Eghdami Kianoush Ayari , Reza Mirkarimi , Hamid Khozouie Abyane , Bijan Mirbagheri, Habibollah Kasesaz, Mohammadmahdi Asgharpour, Michael Hannigan, Montserrat Givio Valez, Yuka Pekalakso15-20 November 2005
Award (National Competition) Film Name Recipient
Best Film The Case of Helias Mohammad Ali Farsi
Best Fiction Short My Boots Safi Yazdanian
Best Documentary Short Tis I, Darius Vahid Bagherzadeh
Best Animated Short The Screaming Room Sheida Zarrinfam
Best Experimental Short Anti-Memories Kooroush Farzanegan
Award (International Competition) Film Name Recipient
Best Film Fallen Art (Poland)Tomasz Bagiński
Best Fiction Short Role (Iran) Farshid Azari
Best Documentary Short Resident Permit (France) Tatyana Soboleva
Best Animated Short Room (South Koera) Yu Seok Hyun
Best Experimental Short A Man. A Road. A River. (Brazil) Marcellvs L.
23rd Edition
Festival President Juries Event Date
Nasser Bakideh Mehrdad Oskouei , Mohammad Reza Aslani , Kambuzia Partovi , Akbar Alemi , Mojtaba Raei, Hassan Bolkhari, John Stanley Wachowski, Stavros Hassapis, Nicolas Gilberg, Lessad Jomoosi21-26 November 2006
Award (National Competition) Film Name Recipient
Best Fiction Short White Mountains Taha Karimi
Best Documentary Short Zero Degree Orbit Mahmoud Rahmani
Best Animated Short Mahboobeh Ali Asghar rasooli
Best Experimental Short Limit of A Circle Shahram Mokri
Award (International Competition) Film Name Recipient
Best Film Dillema (Netherlands) Bormis Paul Kani
Best Fiction Short Oxford Circus Esteban Gitton
Best Documentary Short As Is Their Wont (Belarus) Galina Adamovich
Best Animated Short Delivery (Germany)Till Nowak
Best Experimental Short Cross Tie (Brazil) Joel Pizzini
24th Edition
Festival President Juries Event Date
Nasser Bakideh kamal Tabrizi , Maziar Miri , Amrit Gangar , Mohammadreza Sokoot, Misagh Amirfajr, Mani Mirsadeghi, Saeed Aghighi, Abdollah Alimorad, Andrzej Bednarek, Firas Dehni, Majid Shahhosseini13-18 November 2007
Award (National Competition) Film Name Recipient
Best Fiction Short The Cold Dream Payman Nahan Ghodrati
Best Documentary Short Cyanosis Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami
Best Animated Short The Cage Vahid Nassirian
Best Experimental Short Alternation Mehdi Fard Ghaderi
Award (International Competition) Film Name Recipient
Best Film Ela (England) Silvana Aguirre
Best Fiction Short Datorie (Romania) Vlad Trandafir
Best Animated Short Ship (Poland) / Lost Doll (Iran) Grigorij Yunkatis / Moin Samadi
Best Experimental Short Boomerang (Iran) Dariush Gharibzdeh
25th Edition
Festival President Juries Event Date
Nasser Bakideh Mohammad Ali Bashe Ahangar , Hamid Khozouie Abyane , Rasul Sadr Ameli , Abbas Arnaout Alireza Golpayegani, Majid Sheikh Ansari, Reza Serkanian, Morteza Razagh karimi, Azizollah Haji Mashhadi13-18 November 2008
Award (National Competition) Film Name Recipient
Best Fiction Short Blue tooth Houman Seyyedi
Best Documentary Short Square without a Fence Mehrdad Zahedian
Best Animated Short Solitude Mehrdad Sheikhan
Best Experimental Short Cold Blood Amir Mehran
Award (International Competition) Film Name Recipient
Best Film Gilles (Canada)Constant Mentzas
Best Fiction Short Le Crabe (Belgium) Christophe Hermans, Xavier Seron
Best Documentary Short Ageing Peter (Russia) Ivan Golunov
Best Animated Short Lisan al Gaib (England) David Anderson (animator)
Best Experimental Short Columba Palumbus (Spain)) Koldo Almandoz
26th Edition
Festival President Juries Event Date
Nasser Bakideh Mehrdad Oskouei , Mohammad Reza Aslani , Mohammadreza Arab, Abdollah Alimorad, Mahmoud Gabrloo, Ahmadreza Garshasbi, Mahnaz Mazaheri, Shahabeddin Adel, Abdollatif Ahmadi, Lassaad Jamoussi, Valerie Linardi11-16 November 2009
Award (National Competition) Film Name Recipient
Best Fiction Short All My Perosnal Effects Have Been Moved Houman Seyyedi
Best Documentary Short Morgh Sahar Mehdi Bagheri
Best Animated Short Twilight Mohammadali Soleimanzadeh
Best Experimental Short Minus Kazem Mollaie
Award (International Competition) Film Name Recipient
Best Fiction Short The Last Regal King Size (Scotland) Simon Hipkins
Best Documentary Short What's Your Name (Italy) Georges Salameh
Best Animated Short The Face (Hungary) Frank Kako
Best Experimental Short Minus (Iran) Kazem Mollaie
27th Edition
Festival President Juries Event Date
Hashem Mirzakhani Pouran Derakhshandeh , Shahriar Bahrani , Danny Schechter , Alireza Amini, Mohammad Dormanesh, Ramtin Lavafipour, Hamid Soheili, Jalil Erfan Manesh, Bahram Azimi, Mohammad Reza Abbasian, Ahmad Atef, Wayne Coolsjean , Jorge Rodriguez, Hans-Joachim Schlegel19-24 November 2010
Award (National Competition) Film Name Recipient
Best Fiction Short Sokar Dariush Gharibzadeh
Best Documentary Short Mobile in Tehran Loghman Khaledi
Best Animated Short Over the Grey Clouds Sare Shafiepour
Best Experimental Short My House is Cloudy Karim Azimi
Award (International Competition) Film Name Recipient
Best Fiction Short A Drop (India) / Sokar (Iran) Abhishek Pathak / Dariush Gharibzadeh
Best Documentary Short The Gardner and His 21 Flowers (Denmark) Emil Langballe
Best Animated Short Speechless (England) Daniel Greaves
Best Experimental Short Especially Music (Iran) / Raw, Cooked, Burned (Iran) Sina Ataeian Dena / Shahram Mokri
28th Edition
Festival President Juries Event Date
Hashem Mirzakhani Anis Lassoued , Nader Talebzadeh , Mohammad Davoudi (screenwriter) , Yvonne Ridley , Azizollah Hamidnejhad, Seyed Abbas Pouya, Abbas Rafei, Mohammad Ali Farsi, Ahmad Kavari, Naghi Nemati, Jen Petersing, Julia Guest, Stavros Raptis, Hiroyuki Tanimoto11-14 October 2011
Award (National Competition) Film Name Recipient
Best Fiction Short Bitter Milk Nasser Zamiri
Best Documentary Short The Bread Cycle Hossein Nazari
Best Animated Short The Alchemist Mehdi Khoramian
Best Experimental Short Delete Kazem Mollaie
Award (International Competition) Film Name Recipient
Best Fiction Short Bitter Milk (Iran) / Barbakan (Poland) Nasser Zamiri / Bartłomiej Żmuda
Best Documentary Short El Nino Miguel (Spain) Nacho Martin
Best Animated Short I'm Going to Disneyland (France) Calvin Antoine Blandin
Best Experimental Short Planet Z (France) Momoko Seto
29th Edition
Festival President Juries Event Date
Hashem Mirzakhani Rambod Javan , Yadollah Samadi , Reza Pourhossein, Bahram javanroudi, Morteza Shabani, Esfandiar Shahidi, Mohammadreza Gohari, Francisco Manuel Magalhaes Lobo Avila, Emilio Della Chiesa, Amir Emary, Ahmad Najafi, Mohammad Reza Eslamlou, Julian Polisse, Sourav Sarangi1-7 October 2012
Award (National Competition) Film Name Recipient
Best Fiction Short The Wind Will Yell Something Ali Mardomi
Best Documentary Short Shahrokh Vahid Zarezadeh
Best Animated Short Aperture Amir Mehran
Best Experimental Short C4 Behrouz Bagheri
Award (International Competition) Film Name Recipient
Best Fiction Short The Last Hour (Jordan) Roua Nazar
Best Documentary Short Odysseus' Gambit (USA)Alex Lora Cercos
Best Animated Short Red Line (Iran) Mona Abdollah Shahi
Best Experimental Short We'll Become Oil (Romania) Mihai Grecu
30th Edition
Festival President Juries Event Date
Hashem Mirzakhani Mehdi Karampour , Rasul Sadrameli , Ahmad Alasti, Mohammad Bozorgnia, Mohammad Reza Sokot, Mohammad Ali Safora, Ahmad Zabeti Jahromi, Mehdi Faraji, Seyyed Naser Hashemzade, Yeseri Bosaeed, Julia Guest, Jochen Ehmann, Paula Palacios, Young Chu-Young14-20 October 2013
Award (National Competition) Film Name Recipient
Best Fiction Short Jadeh Fari Mohammad Nasiri
Best Documentary Short Mookan Mohammad Ali Hashemzehi
Best Animated Short Why Doesn't This Phone Ring Hadi Yaghinloo
Best Experimental Short Somewhere to Live Milad & Sajad Sotoodeh
Award (International Competition) Film Name Recipient
Best Fiction Short ¿Cómo te clasifico? (Uruguay) Guy Dessent
Best Animated Short Women's Letters (France) Augusto Zanovello
Best Experimental Short Mayfly (Iran) Hossein Shayeghi
31st Edition
Festival President Juries Event Date
Habib Allah Ilbeygi Amir Shahab Razavian , Farhad Ghaemian , Reza Mirkarimi , Shahram Mokri , Loghman Khaledi , Fereshteh Taerpour , Narges Abyar , Jafar Sanei Moghaddam, Ravanbakhsh Sadeghi, Hooman Behmanesh, Masoud Amini Tirani, Christian Braad Thomsen, Johanna Bader, Claude Gizzard14-19 October 2014
Award (National Competition) Film Name Recipient
Best Film Cloudy Children Reza Fahimi
Best Fiction Short Cloudy Children Reza Fahimi
Best Documentary Short Alamto A Reptile Wonderland Fathollah Amiri
Best Animated Short Digital Native Mahboobeh Mohammadzaki
Best Experimental Short Breakable Mehdi Aghajani
Award (International Competition) Film Name Recipient
Grand Prix Digital Native (Iran) / Discipline (Switzerland) Mahboobeh Mohammadzaki / Christophe Saber
Best Fiction Short Au sol (France) Alexis Michalik
Best Documentary Short All The Winters Never Seen (Iran) Mohammadreza Hafezi
Best Animated Short Father (Argentina) Santiago Grasso
32nd Edition
Festival President Juries Event Date
Farid Farkhondehkish Mostafa Aleahmad , Mohammad Ali Bashe Ahangar , Houman Seyyedi , Alireza Shoja Nouri , Saeed Tavakolian, farhad Tohidi, Azizollah Hamidnejhad, Mohammad Afaride, Seigo Tono, Matthias Flügge, Chang Yuk-mui11-17 November 2015
Award (National Competition) Film Name Recipient
Best Film Chelleh Jamal Goli
Best Fiction Short Chelleh Davood Khayam
Best Documentary Short Khunbazi Mostafa Shiri
Best Animated Short Empty Page Siavash Khodaie
Best Experimental Short Survival Masoud Hatami
Award (International Competition) Film Name Recipient
Grand Prix Koharubiyori (Japan) Toshimichi Saito
Special Jury Prize Survival Masoud Hatami
Best Fiction Short Everything Will Be Okay (Austria)Patrick Vollrath
Best Documentary Short Touch of Freedom (Poland) Sardar Arshad Khan
Best Animated Short The Shop of Songbirds (Ukraine) Anatoliy Lavrenishyn
33rd Edition
Festival President Juries Event Date
Farid Farkhondehkish Mohammad-Reza Honarmand , Akbar Alemi , Mohsen Amiryoussefi , Reza Mirkarimi , Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck , Shubhra Gupta , Khosrow Sinai , Davood Khayam, Jukka-Pekka Laakso, Juliette Duret4-8 November 2016
Award (National Competition) Film Name Recipient
Best Film Common Hole / Tanavob Asma Ebrahimzadegan / Ali Khoshdooni Farahani
Best Fiction Short The Lost Items Hamed Nejabat
Best Documentary Short 10,4.5 and 3.5 Mehdi Heidari
Best Animated Short The Servant Farnoosh Abedi
Best Experimental Short 999999999 Karim Azimi
Award (International Competition) Film Name Recipient
Grand Prix Not Yet (Iran) Arian Vazirdaftari
Best Fiction Short Du Bout Des Doigts (Belgium) Basile Vuillemin
Best Documentary Short The Tibetan Girl (China) Huaqing Jin
Best Animated Short Joint-Tenants (France) Delphine Priet-Maheo
Best Experimental Short They Call Us the Enemy (Netherlands) Pim Zwier
34th Edition
Festival President Juries Event Date
Seyed Sadegh Mousavi Majid Barzegar , Mehdi Jafari , Mehdi Karampour , Mahnaz Afzali, Amir Saharkhiz, Majid Sheikh Ansari, Jafar Sanei Moghaddam, Hamid Nematollah, Peter Murdmaa, Gipsy Yuk-mui Chang, Andrzej Bednarek, Abir Hashem17-22 November 2017
Award (National Competition) Film Name Recipient
Best Film Animal Bahram & Bahman Ark
Audience Award Animal Bahram & Bahman Ark
Special Jury Prize Marzieh / Marlon Dornaz Hajiha
Best Fiction Short Animal / Elephant's Shadow Bahram & Bahman Ark / Arman Khansarian
Best Documentary Short The Sacred Carpet Mehdi Asadi
Best Animated Short Icky Parastoo Cardgar
Best Experimental Short A Nightmare's Tale Farhad Gholami
Award (International Competition) Film Name Recipient
Grand Prix Evil Deeds (Poland) Piotr Domalewski
Best Fiction Short Andro (Georgia) Tornike Gogrichiani
Best Documentary Short The Sacred Carpet (Iran) Mehdi Asadi
Best Animated Short The Never-Ending Wall (Spain) Silvia Carpizo
Best Experimental Short Whole to the Part (Iran) Seyed Vahid Hosseini Nami
35th Edition
Festival President Juries Event Date
Seyed Sadegh Mousavi Varuzh Karim Masihi , Ida Panahandeh , Behtash Sanaeeha , Loghman Khaledi , Virgil Widrich , Krzysztof Gierat , Mehrdad Oskouei , Mohammad Afaride, Kave Ghahreman, Ramtin Shahbazi, Thom Palmen, Sari Volanen, Per Fikse, Mick Hannigan9-13 November 2018
Award (National Competition) Film Name Recipient
Best Film In Between Aliyar Rasti
Special Jury Prize Dissect Siavash Shahabi
Best Fiction Short Reverence Sogol Rezvani
Best Documentary Short Joker Sajad Imani
Best Animated Short The Fox Sadegh Javadi
Best Experimental Short Not Being Pooya Razi
Award (International Competition) Film Name Recipient
Grand Prix Dissect (Iran) Siavash Shahabi
Best Fiction Short Fauve (Canada)Jérémy Comte
Best Documentary Short And What Is The Summer Saying (India) Payal Kapadia (filmmaker)
Best Animated Short Agouro (Portugal) David Doutel and Vasco Sá
Best Experimental Short Edge of Alchemy (USA) Stacey Steers
36th Edition
Festival President Juries Event Date
Seyed Sadegh Mousavi Ebrahim Forouzesh , Nima Javidi , Shubhra Gupta , Hassan Zahedi, Mahmoud Arjmand, Mehrdad Zahedian, Maryam Kashkoolinia, Parivash Nazarieh, João Garção Borges, Gina Dellabarca, Ahmad Alasti, Turi Finocchiaro9-15 November 2019
Award (National Competition) Film Name Recipient
Best Film Aziz Mahdi Barzoki
Special Jury Prize Dabur Saeed Nejati
Best Fiction Short Aziz Mahdi Barzoki
Best Documentary Short Where The Wind Blows Mina MashhadiMahdi
Best Animated Short Tangle Malihe Gholamzadeh
Best Experimental Short Earth Style Payam Rezai
Award (International Competition) Film Name Recipient
Grand Prix Brotherhood (Canada)Meryam Joobeur
Special Jury Prize Ashmina (Nepal)Dekel Berenson
Special Jury Prize Each Other (Iran) Sara Tabibzadeh
Best Fiction Short Super Comfort (Finland) Kirsikka Saari
Best Documentary Short Histories of Wolves (Portugal) Agnes Meng
Best Animated Short Untravel (Serbia) Nikola Majdak Jr.
Best Experimental Short Places (Spain) SClaudia Barral Magaz
37th Edition
Festival President Juries Event Date
Seyed Sadegh Mousavi Ashkan Rahgozar , Bahram Tavakoli (film director) , Rouhollah Hejazi , Mohammad Reza Delpak , Behnam Behzadi , Esmaeel Monsef, Hamidreza Lotfian, Roqiye Tavakoli, Mohammad Mehdi Asgarpour, Naser Safarian, Kyeongyeon Kim, Lia Beltrami20-25 January 2021
Award (National Competition) Film Name Recipient
Best Film White Winged Horse Hamidreza Zobeir
Best Fiction Short White Winged Horse Mahyar Mandegar
Best Documentary Short Khoonyar Children Arman Gholipour Dashtaki
Best Animated Short Red Fire Mona Abdollahshahi
Best Experimental Short Adapt Kamal Kachooian
Award (International Competition) Film Name Recipient
Grand Prix White Clad (Iran) Reza Fahimi
Best Fiction Short Da Yie (Belgium/Ghana)Anthony Nti
Best Documentary Short Kaak Iraj (Iran) Jamshid Farajvand Dana
Best Animated Short Canada (Spain) Marc Riba & Anna Solanas
38th Edition
Festival President Juries Event Date
Seyed Sadegh Mousavi Virgil Widrich , Abolfazl Jalili , Ensie Shah Hosseini, Manoochehr Shahsavari, Mohammad Taghi Fahim, Marjan Ashrafizadeh, Mehdi Khorramian, Reza Teymouri, Reza Fahimi, Lia Beltrami, Sebastien Simon, Shoko Takegassa19-24 October 2021
Award (National Competition) Film Name Recipient
Best Film Morse Mohammad Yousefi & Amirhossein Enayati
Special Jury Prize The Savior Soheila Pourmohammadi
Best Fiction Short Morse Ronak jafari
Best Documentary Short Chair Mohammad Bagher Shahin
Best Animated Short The Past Hamid Mohammadi
Best Experimental Short How Should One Wait For Godot Arsiya Zeinali
Award (International Competition) Film Name Recipient
Grand Prix Capsul (Iran) Amir Pazirofteh
Best Fiction Short Beyond Is The Day (Poland) Damian Kocur
Best Documentary Short I Won't Remain Alone (Iran) Yaser Talebi
Best Animated Short Step into the River (China/France) Ma Weijia
Best Experimental Short Identification (France) Jean-François Commines
39th Edition
Festival President Juries Event Date
Mehdi Azarpendar Rasul Sadr Ameli , Mahmoud Kalari , Hossein Namazi, Hadi Moghaddamdoost, Rouhollah Sohrabi, Mohammadreza Sookot, Mirona Radu, Sergio Gomez, Tahsin Isbilen, Edvinas Puksta19-24 October 2022
Award (National Competition) Film Name Recipient
Best Film Andarva Amir Pazirofteh
Special Jury Prize Silkworm Amir Honarmand
Best Fiction Short Noshabeh Meshki Mohammad Paydar
Best Documentary Short I'm Back Alive Mojtaba Heidari
Best Animated Short The Sprayer Farnoush Abedi
Best Experimental Short Breakfast Morteza Farhadnia
Award (International Competition) Film Name Recipient
Grand Prix Outtakes (Spain) Concha Barquero & Alejandro Alvarado
Best Fiction Short Old Windows (England) Paul Holbrook
Best Documentary Short Heimat (Italy) Giovanni Montagnana
Best Animated Short Absence (France) Marc Héricher
Best Experimental Short Basin of Attraction (France) Jonathan Pêpe
40th Edition
Festival President Juries Event Date
Mehdi Azarpendar Mahmoud Kalari , Giorgi Ovashvili , Mohammadhossein Latifi, Behrouz Shoaibi, Saeid Ghotbizadeh, Zohre Zamani, Hossein Darabi, Bahram Ark, Naghi Nemati, Georgios Zois, Marina Migunova, Wang Lina19-24 October 2023
Award (National Competition) Film Name Recipient
Best Film Nietzschean Suicide Payam Kordestani & Bahman Rezai
Special Jury Prize Recurrence Ali Alizade
Audience Award Ant Farhad Shantiaei
Best Fiction Short UFO Hamid Hosseini, Mehdi Hosseini
Best Documentary Short The Return Fatemeh Marzbani
Best Animated Short Being Ten Fatemeh Jafari
Best Experimental Short Mohammad Kachoei
Award (International Competition) Film Name Recipient
Grand Prix Recurrence (Iran) Ali Alizade
Best Fiction Short Everything Depends on Mr.K (Iran) Hassan Hekmat Ravesh
Best Documentary Short Little Berlin (France) Kate McMullen
Best Animated Short Once War Is Over (Italy) Simone Massi
Best Experimental Short Now (China) Ye Yuan
41st Edition
Festival President Juries Event Date
Mehdi Azarpendar Shahab Hosseini , Kamal Tabrizi , Farzad Motamen , A.R.Rahman , Sadia Khalid Reeti , Anthony Nti , Dornaz hajiha, Arman Fayyaz, Meysam Molaei, Mohammadreza Shafah, Masoud Madadi, Ahmadreza Motamedi, Maja Costa, Ekaterina Yakovleva18-23 October 2024
Award (National Competition) Film Name Recipient
Best Film Under the Shady Oak Hossein Allahyari
Special Jury Prize Limo Knew Everything Edris Mahmoudian
Audience Award Asin Show Ali Tavakoli
Best Fiction Short Claimant Nadere Sadat Serki
Best Documentary Short The Granny & Fishes Maria Mavati & Ehsan Farokhi Fard
Best Animated Short In the Shadow of the Cypress
Hossein Molayemi & Shirin Sohani
Best Experimental Short Iliha Reza Daneshpazhouh
Award (International Competition) Film Name Recipient
Grand Prix A Short Film About Kids (Palestine) Ibrahim Handal
Best Fiction Short Crack of Dawn (Spain) Anna Llargues
Best Documentary Short The Granny & Fishes (Iran) Maria Mavati & Ehsan Farokhi Fard
Best Animated Short In the Shadow of the Cypress (Iran)Hossein Molayemi & Shirin Sohani
Best Experimental Short The Poem We Sang (Palestine) Annie Sakkab
Best VR Short Tadpole (USA) Diane Catsburrow Linnet
Best AI Short Miracle (Iran) Afrouz Bavafa
The Truth Seekers Award Incident (USA)Bill Morrison
42nd Edition
Festival President Juries Event Date
Behrooz Shoaibi Mehdi Jafari , Damian Kocur , Marzieh Boroumand , Maryam Esmikhani, Ebrahim Saeedi, Bayram Fazli, Noushin Meraji, Hamid Nematollah, Parivash Nazarieh، Thom Palmen, Mirona Radu, Saeed Ebrahimifar, Joe Chang, Seifollah Samadian, Ahmad Alasti, Mahin Javaherian, Amir Saharkhiz, Tiyam Yabandeh, Nada Dagdoug19-24 October 2025
Award (National Competition) Film Name Recipient
Best Film And Life For All Mohsen Asdaghpour
Special Jury Prize Particle Fardin Ansari
Audience Award Bye Bye Garbage Bahman & Bahram Ark
Best Fiction Short Bye Bye Garbage Bahman & Bahram Ark
Best Documentary Short Robaro Amir Pazirofteh
Best Animated Short BMW 2002 Gholamreza Ghorbani
Best Experimental Short Notes From The Underground Abbas Shakoori, Sina Roosta
Award (International Competition) Film Name Recipient
Grand Prix The Canon (Chile) Martin Seeger
Best Fiction Short Baozhda (China) Keran Abukasimu
Best Documentary Short My Name Is Oil (Azerbaijan) Igor Smola
Best Animated Short Winter in March (Armenia) Natalia Mirzoyan
Best Experimental Short A Visualization of a Cut (Denmark) Claudia Munksgaard-Palmqvist
Best AI Short The Valley (Argentina) Juan Zabal
Emerging Horizons Award The Whispering Rocks (Iran) Ali Mohammad Tarahomi
