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"TINY SNOWFLAKES
(Danehaye Rize Barf)

Director & Scriptwriter: Ali-Reza Amini
Assistant Director: Saman Salur
Director of Photography: Tooraj Aslani
Sound: Mohammad Reza Yousefi
Editor: Ali-Reza Amini
Music: Mehrdad Nosrati
Cast: Mohsen Tanabandeh, Majid Bahrami and mine workers
Producer: Documentary & Experimental Film Center, Ali-Reza Amini
2003, 75 min, Color, 35mm

   
SYNOPSIS:

Loneliness and isolation are a part of life for two mine keepers in a remote mountain town. Their only light of hope comes in the form of a small dog they find and an unknown woman they see walking in the distance. People enter and exit their lives, including a group of mine workers—but it is the very world they have created for themselves to deal with their loneliness that keeps others out. Nevertheless, they still ultimately find pleasure in the subtle and simple things of life.

BIOGRAPHY:  

Born in 1970 in Tehran, Amini holds a degree in theatre direction. He has also had experience as a performer as well as theater and cinema director of short and documentary films. He has made 20 short films and has participated in many festivals, winning awards in many of them. He was assistant-director for Bahman Ghobadi’s films LIVING IN THE MIST and TIME OF DRUNKEN HORSES.
Amini’s first feature which tells the story of soldiers in Iran, despite not being allowed to leave it’s own borders, was seen and appreciated by most of the influential foreign experts of Iranian film.

FILMOGRAPHY

Short and ocumentary:

  • THE GIFT                  1994
  • THE LOOK                 1994
  • THE CASE                  1995
  • 40 PIECES                  1997
  • THE LETTER               1998
  • THE GREEN FRAME      1998
  • THE TEACHER’S HOME 1998
  • THE RAINBOW            1999
  • HERE IS TEHRAN         1999
  • THE DESERT               2000
  • DARK ANGLE               2002

Feature:    

  • LETTERS IN THE WIND       2002
  • TINY SNOWFLAKES            2003

 FESTIVALS:

  1. Locarno International Film Festival (2003) (Switzerland )
    Has acquired The Special Mention from International Jury
    and winner of Special Prize from the Junior Jury
  2. Pusan International Film Festival (2003) ( South Korea)
    Participated in New Current Section and winner of the best feature award
  3. Thessaloniki Int’l Film Festival (2003) (Greece)
    Winner of Artistic Achievement Award
  4. Festival D'amiens (2003) (France)
  5. Flanders Film Festival (2003) (Belgium)
  6. Bratislava Film Festival (2003) (Slovak Republic)
  7. Belgrade International Film Festival (2004) (Yugoslavia)
    Received Silver Sign of the Festival
  8. Festival Cinema Africano Asia a America Latina (2004) (Italy)
    Winner of Second Prize
  9. Kino Otok – Isola Cinema (2004) (Slovenia)
  10. Enviromental Film Festival (2004) (Turkey)
  11. Moscow Int'l Film Festival (2004) (Russia)
  12. Festival Int'l du Film de la Rochelle (2004) (France)
  13. Kalovy Vary Film Festival (2004) (Czech)
  14. Cervino International Film Festival (2004) (Italy)
  15. Horizon Film Festival (2004)(Poland)
  16. CJ Asian Independent Film Festival (2004) (Korea)
  17. Museum of Fine Arts (2005) (USA)
  18. UCLA Film Festival (2005/ USA)
  19. India Int'l Film Festival (2005/ India)
  20. Pune Int'l Film Festival (2006/ India)

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