The works selected for the Puyan Festival have been announced. According to the festival’s public relations office, out of more than 190 submissions received from universities and higher education institutions across the country, 25 short animations were chosen by the selection committee to compete in the official competition section of the first Puyan Student Short Animation Festival.
The festival’s selection committee, made up of active students and graduates in the field of animation, chose these works to compete in the festival’s main section after a careful review based on creativity, technical quality, and storytelling.
Films Selected for the Puyan Festival Competition
- Bug — Ali Masoumi
- Bougainvillea — Neda Sangtarash
- Twenty-Three Kilograms — Mobina Habibi
- Flight of Memories — Anahita Daneshnejad, Mohammad Abbasi
- Chavok — Hazhir Asadi
- Cycle — Mohammad Mahdi Hosseininejad
- Ruler — Dorsa Hosseinafshari
- Mother Sea’s Daughters — Sahar Ghafourian
- The Path We’ve Traveled — Narges Fazli
- Travelous — Samira Hosseini
- Dog — Sogand Vatankhah
- Butcher — Tara Moghimi
- Three Seconds — Javad Azari
- Breakfast — Mahan Pourebrahim
- The Strangest Night of Erwin’s Life — Fatemeh Zare
- Pollination Season — Atefeh Paknit, Masoud Sabahi
- Wallpaper — Amin Abdolhosseinzadeh, Zahra Khadem
- Marut — Zahra Azimi
- Crumpled — Mohammad Yaghoubi
- The Man and the Window — Fatemeh Ahmadi
- Poultry — Sara Alimoradi
- Memory — Mirsepehr Khoobbin Khoshnazar
- Half of the World — Hedieh Jafar
- A Black and White Story — Mohammad Mahdi Ghazizadeh
- In the Last Years of Life — Minasadat Ayatollahi
Judging the Selected Works
These selected works will now compete against one another in the festival’s official competition section. The jury — made up of Mahin Javaherian, Amirmohammad Dehestani, Dr. Mohammad Fadavi, Hossein Molayemi, Babak Nekooei, and Farrokh Yekdaneh — will evaluate the works. To learn more about the jury members, you can visit the jury introduction page.
Date and Venue
The first Puyan Student Short Animation Festival will be held from 8 to 13 Azar 1404, hosted by the Fine Arts Campus of the University of Tehran. For more festival news, visit the Puyan news page.
