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Report of

4th Zoroastrian & Iranian culture Film Festival

(ZIFF-4)

4th Zoroastrian and Iranian culture Film Festival (ZIFF-4) was held on 16th November 2006,

at Kay Meek Centre, West Vancouver by showing 16 short and long films related to

Zoroastrian and Iranian culture.

The festival which is of its first kind in North America is bi-annual and compare to

previous years, this festival absorbed most audience and all its three sessions experienced

almost 'full-house' situation.

This is a non-competitive film festival and people's best choices were announced to be:

'Persepolis Recreated' by Farzin Rezaeian of USA

'The Rebirth of Rostam' by Saeed Ghahari from UK

'Mashi & Mashianeh' (Adam & Eve) by Hassan Naghashi of Iran

Preview of 'In Search of Cyrus the Great' by Cyrus Kar of USA

These films shall receive Crystal Cedar Trophy as appreciation.

Also,

'The Empty Cluster of Those Days' by Sohrab Akhavan

'This Cradle will Shake' by Foroud Evazpour

'Parsic Tree' of Hassan Naghashi received the appreciation diplomas.

'Palms Die Standing' and 'Share of Immigrant' by Panahbarkhoda Rezaee and

'Soshious' of Hassan Naghashi drew good attentions from the audience.

Due to good response by the audience and the film makers, this festival may become an annual event.

ZIFF Manager

Vancouver, Canada Sunday 19th November 2006

Films and Show Times

Time	Film	By	Country	Short Description
4pm	Tooranposht	A. Jafari	Iran	Stealing of historical artefacts from a village in Yazd
	Bed Pan	K. Umrigar	India	Seniors problem - Gujrhati
	Soshious	H. Naghashi	Iran	Legend about marriage with the water well and Anahita
	*Plames Die Standing	P. Rezaee	Iran	Some Facts on Bam Earthquake*
	Story of God		UK	Parts of a TV documentary
	Non-Parsi	K. Umrigar	India	Story of a Parsi girl who decides to marry a non-Parsi Boy
	Adam & Eve	H. Naghashi	Iran	Legend on Creation of Universe & story of door knockers in Yazd
6 pm	The Persian Tree	H. Naghashi	Iran	Story of a 5000 years old tree in Abarkooh
	Immortal Ahoorani	A.F. Jafari	Iran	A story on ancient Persian coins
	The Rebirth of Rostam	S.Ghahari	UK	Animation of Rostam-Sohrab story from Firdosi’s Shahnameh
	Some-eh, the Empty Cluster of those Days	S.Akhavan	Iran	Yaghma, a mason who was a poet.
	In Search of Cyrus the Great	Cyrus Kar	USA	Preview of this great film
8pm	Memento	M. R Zadeh	Iran	Guard of Bam Citadel after the Earthquake & his story
	This Cradle will Shake	F. Evazpour	Iran	A story about people of Lorestan
	The Share of Immigrant	P. Rezaee	Iran	Problems of Afghans in Iran
	Persepolis Recreated	F. Rezaeian	USA	Story of Persepolis and computerized

Sponsors

Arts & Culture Commission of North Vancouver

Mahvash Aidoun-Esfandiar Pourbahrami

Mr. Allahyar Dabestani

History:

ZIFF-1: Houston Texas, Dec 2000

ZIFF-2 Vancouver, 25-28, Oct 2002

ZIFF-2: Select , LA, California, Feb 2003

ZIFF-2: Select, Chicago, Oct 2003

ZIFF-2: Select , Tehran, Iran, Jan 2004

ZIFF-2: Select, San Jose, California, May 2004

ZIFF-3: Vancouver, Nov 2004

ZIFF-3: Select, Tehran, Iran, Jan 2005 ZIFF

Rules & Objectives

Entry Form

Deadline to receive the films for ZIFF4 was End of August 2006.

Trophy Video (you need QuickTime)

Trophies Donated by Ms. Mahvash and Esfandiar Pourbahrami

in Memory of Mahvash's late parents

3rd Festival Report

ZIFF-2

ZIFF-1 in Chicago - Oct 2003

Watch the TV Announcement: Windows Media Player Real Player

Announcement in NewsPapers: English

BBC, London Interview(18/10/02): Part 1 Part2

BBC Page

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