Deutscher Fokus in Teheran

In 2016, the International Short Film Festival Tehran (8-14 November 2016) decided to focus on Germany. In addition to numerous German competition entries, two special programmes with German short films were shown. One programme featured German Oscar and student Oscar winners, the other current German short film productions. Due to the strict and sometimes difficult to understand censorship regulations in Iran, however, these were not really deliberately curated programmes. This made it even clearer under what difficult conditions their colleagues work. All the more credit must be given to them for the fact that they nevertheless manage to set up such a festival.
There was also a panel where Jutta Wille, Managing Director of AG Kurzfilm, introduced the Iranian and international festival audience to the short film and festival scene as well as film education in Germany and answered questions.
The German Focus was supported by German Films and the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Tehran.


Programme Current Short Film Productions
DIEBE (D: Lauro Cress), HIGH WOOL (D: Moritz Mugler, Nikolai Maderthoner), JOB INTERVIEW (D: Julia Walter), TEA TIME (D: Thomas Schienagel, Marie Kister, Marcel Knüdeler, Wilfried Pollan), WO WIRD SIND (D: Ilker Catak), WHOLE (D: Verena Klinger, Robert Banning), WRAPPED (D: Roman Kälin, Falko Paeper, Florian Wittmann), THE PRESENT (D: Jacob Frey), SHORT FILM (D: Olaf Held), VELO MYSTERIUM (D: Jörn Staeger), ZWEI ZUCKER (D: Thore Schwemann)

Programme (Studenten) Oscar Winners
BALANCE (D: Christoph und Wolfgang Lauenstein), SCHWARZFAHRER (D: Pepe Danquart), DIE ROTE JACKE (D: Florian Baxmeyer), DER AUSREIßER (D: Ulrike Grote), TREUE (SADAKAT) (D: Ilker Catak)