According to the Iranian Cinema Museum News Center, the festival—held in Qeshm Island in November under the theme “Cinema, the Common Language of Peace”—aims to promote friendship, empathy, and dialogue among nations.
Out of 679 submissions from Iran and other countries, a total of 47 Iranian films have been selected across four categories: Feature Film, Documentary, Short Film, and Animation.
Feature Films
Parviz Khan — Dir. Ali Saqafi / Prod. Ata Panahi
Unwritten — Dir. & Prod. Amin Bakhshiyan
Beneath the Burning Waters — Dir. Masoud Ahmadi / Prod. Shima Poursemdeddin
Mahoor — Dir. Majid Niyamrad / Prod. Asghar Pourhajrian
Son of Man — Dir. & Prod. Sepideh Mirhosseini / Prod. Vahid Dalili
Orbital — Dir. Meysam Hassanzadeh / Prod. Alireza Alavian
Silent Snail — Dir. Behrang Dezfoulizadeh / Prod. Morteza Shayesteh
Your Neighbor, Zohreh — Dir. Ali Derakhshandeh / Prod. Majid Barzegar
Twilight Sun — Dir. Mohsen Daneshvar Biri / Prod. Mohsen Daneshvar Biri & Leyla Ashrafi
Seven Springs of Orange Blossom — Dir. Farshad Golsefidi / Prod. Mohammad Kamalipour & Farshad Golsefidi
Documentaries
Checkmate — Dir. Nasim Soheili / Prod. Iranian Youth Cinema Society
Puppet Player — Dir. & Prod. Pouria Nouri
Tommy’s Dream — Dir. Dalavar Dostanian / Prod. Dalavar Dostanian & Raya Nasiri
This House and My Mother’s Leprosy — Dir. & Prod. Navid Sadeghi
Hafez and Goethe — Dir. & Prod. Farshad Fereshteh-Hekmat
Fidos — Dir. & Prod. Sara Abedi
Narkis — Dir. Zeinab Karimi / Prod. Fatemeh Ahmadi
Villain — Dir. Parsa Ansari / Prod. Iranian Youth Cinema Society
Children of Khoonyar — Dir. & Prod. Arman Gholipour Dashtaki
Mother — Dir. Nematollah Sargolzaei / Prod. Sajad Entezari
Porzal — Dir. Maria Mauti & Ehsan Farkhi-Fard
Dartash — Dir. & Prod. Khalil Sahragard
A Boat on the Water — Dir. & Prod. Arman Gholipour Dashtaki
Short Films
Like a Secret — Dir. Saeed Zamanian / Prod. Hassan Mohammadi
The Taxidermist — Dir. Sosan Salamat & Behzad Alavi / Prod. Hamed Tabibi
Comet — Dir. Erfan Chegini
The Narrator — Dir. Mohammad Paydar / Prod. Mohammadjavad Movahed & Mohammad Goodarzi
Omission by Semantic Parallelism — Dir. Saeed Heshmati
Fan — Dir. Leila Noei / Prod. Leila Noei & Roham Rasouli
Choolibooli — Dir. Mana Pak-Sarresht / Prod. Mana Pak-Sarresht & Alborz Pour-Seyaad
Childhood — Dir. Leila Nikzad
Black Fish — Dir. Saeed Valizadeh / Prod. Davoud Karami
Non-Newtonian Attraction — Dir. Alireza Sadeghi / Prod. Mojtaba Arshnia
Gave Life — Dir. Soheila Pourmohammadi / Prod. Javad Ramezani
The Other — Dir. Ako Zandkarimi & Saman Hosseinpour
Suicide Nietzsche-Style — Dir. Payam Kordestani / Prod. Payam Kordestani & Bahman Rezaei
White Flag — Dir. Parviz Rostami / Prod. Parviz Rostami & Iranian Youth Cinema Society
The Suffering of Abandoned Minor Characters — Dir. Nima Mazaheri / Prod. Nima Mazaheri & Reza Doosti
Animation
Colonel — Dir. Parastoo Kardgar
This Side, That Side — Dir. Leida Fazli
The Gray Gray World — Dir. Pejman Malmir / Prod. Seyed Mohsen Pourmohseni-Shakib
Piano — Dir. Marjan Keshani & Shahab Shamsi / Prod. Marjan Keshani
Melody — Dir. Mehdi Amini
Feather — Dir. Sadegh Javadi
Fence — Dir. Fatemeh Ghavam & Isa Nourazar / Prod. Seyed Isa Nourazar
Boots — Dir. Seyed Mohsen Pourmohseni-Shakib / Prod. Seyed Mohsen Pourmohseni-Shakib & Iranian Youth Cinema Society
There Is Always Someone Missing — Dir. Masoud Safari
Pentik — Dir. Narges Zakeri
Petal — Dir. Sadegh Ghasemi
Where the Winds Die — Dir. Pejman Alipour
The list of international films selected for the festival will be announced separately.
The Voice of Peace International Film Festival is organized with the support of the Qeshm Free Zone Organization, the Secretariat of the Supreme Council of Free Zones, and the Cultural and Artistic Division of the House of the Peace Soldier of Iran.