Among the films submitted by the Independent Short Film Support Base to the Kimiai Free Workshop Festival, 25 films have made it into the seventh edition of this festival.
The films are as follows:
Bam-e Behesht (Roof of Paradise) / Mahdi Yarmohammadi Gisuye Ashufteh Zamin (Earth’s Tangled Hair) / Mahdi Yarmohammadi Zemestan Ast (It Is Winter) / Sepideh Mirhosseini Gonah-e Akhar (The Last Sin) / Elham Aghalari & Mohammad Khoraei Gavahinameh (The License) / Fatemeh Barzkar Radpa (Footprint) / Noushin Meraji Tehran Khaniabad 1366 / Seyyed Emad Hosseini Mohkam (Firm) / Noushin Meraji Dast-e Khali Del Por (Empty Hands, Full Heart) / Babak Nabizadeh Trafik (Traffic) / Sohi Banu Zolghadr Gereh (Knot) / Azam Najafian Gladiator / Hamideh Moeinifar Apartment-e Morche-ha (The Ants’ Apartment) / Tofigh Amani Baz Baran Ab Dad (The Rain Gave Water Again) / Elham Aghalari Seh Rooz Ba’d-e Nagasaki (Three Days After Nagasaki) / Hamed Aslani Mehrabab-e Jonoubi (South Mehrabad) / Amin Ashrafi Bonbast (Dead End) / Arman Khansarian Ye Rooz Khoob (A Good Day) / Susan Salamat Ou (She/Her) / Hamed Aslani Kargadan (Rhinoceros) / Farzaneh Ghobadi Panke (The Fan) / Shirin Sohani Pansad Mesqal Tala (Five Hundred Mithqals of Gold) / Shahrzad Dadgar Tolu (Sunrise) / Ebrahim Nematiyan Jibhaye Barani-at ra Bigard (Search Your Rainy Pockets) / Babak Ghaem Bagh-e Bi Bargi (The Leafless Garden) / Ghazaleh Soltani
The Kimiai Free Film Workshop Festival, under the direction of Masoud Kimiai, will be held from the 8th to the 12th of Esfand with the support of the Tasvir-e Shahr Institute at the Mellat Cinema Complex.
Additionally, four educational workshops covering the topics of screenwriting, directing, acting, and impactful filmmaking — alongside screenings of the films that have made it to the final round — will be held from the 8th to the 11th of Esfand, between 1:00 PM and 4:00 PM, by Ayoub Aghakhani, Farzad Motamen, Amir Dejkam, and Saman Salour, and are open to the general public.
It is worth noting that the festival’s closing ceremony will take place on Wednesday, the 12th of Esfand, with tributes paid to Jamshid Arjomand, Farimah Farjaami, and Behrouz Afkhami, at the Mellat Cinema Complex.





