BYSTANDER

Writer and Director: Mohsen Bagheri Dastgerdi

Character Designer: Fatemeh Bagheri Hafshejani

Storyboard: Mahsa Asadi, Akram Ghaedamini

Animator: Sina Koohi Fayegh Dehkordi, Akram Ghaedamini, Mahsa Asadi

Scan: Khadijeh Ghanbari Sheykhshabani

Color: Ahmad Reza Bagheri Haruni

Sound: Hossein Ghoorchian

Edit: Mahdokht Asghariyan

Production Manager: Sajad Shirazi Chaleshtori

Poster Designer: Moein Raeisi Mofrad

Credit Designer: Amin Hekmatpanah

Key Cast: Mahsa Dehghan Ghahfarrokhi, Sahar Ghanepoor, Milad Gholami, Somaye Mohamadiyan

Producer: Mohsen Bagheri Dastgerdi, Luqman Qasemi, VEST PRODUKTION

Runtime: 3 minutes 20 seconds

Film Type: Short Animation

Completion Date: 2017

Synopsis: The human-like people which does not accept diversities and seeks its annihilation. This

totalitarianism for human-like people is their way of happiness and continuation of their rotten thinking.

Director's biography: Mohsen Bagheri Dastgerdi. Date of birth, 10 July 1984, Chaharmahal & Bakhtiari - Iran.

Iranian Youth Cinema Society (IYCS) Studies Graduate. The writer of more than 10 short scripts and one feature

screenplay. Director of one short film animation.

Director's statement: This animation, represents the authoritarian desires of humanity from the past till the

present time. The authoritarian in question is revealed through ideological, political, social moulds and etc. In this

film, humans are sentenced to assimilation with a brutal crackdown of objection. I have attempted to show that

through vanishing contradictions that lead us to a passive, boring life which itself eventually leads us to total

destruction. In this short animation, I have tried to show my respect to all the differences out there in real life.

Festivals:

68th Montecatini International Short Film Festival, Italy, 2017

34th Tehran International Short Film Festival, Iran, 2017

33rd International Short Film Festival Berlin - interfilm, Germany, 2017

30th Minimalen Short Film Festival, Norway, 2018

15th PROVINZIALE - Filmfest Eberswalde, Germany, 2018

14th International Short Film Festival Detmold, Germany, 2018

14th International Festival-Workshop of Film Schools Kinoproba, Russia, 2017

12th Pontino Short Film Festival, Italy, 2017

11th Kinofest International Digital Film Festival, Romania, 2017

11th Short Short Story Film Festival, United States, 2017

9th Independent Animation Festival of Iranian Cinema, Iran, 2017

8th MystiCon Independent Film Festival, United States, 2018

7th National Hasanat Short Film Festival Esfahan, Iran, 2018

6th PERSIAN FILM FESTIVAL, Australia, 2017

6th Tracce Cinematografiche Film Fest, Italy, 2017

6th Wasteland Film Festival, United States, 2017

4th Al-Nahj International Film Festival, Iraq, 2018

3th MINIKINO FILM WEEK, Indonesia, 2017

3th Golden Triangle International Film Festival, India, 2018

3th Animation Marathon, Greece, 2017

2th Slemani International Film Festival, Iraq, 2017

2th Arroios Film Festival, Portugal, 2017

2th link International Film Festival, United Kingdom, 2018

2th Ajayu International Animated Short Film Festival, Peru, 2017

1th The Animattikon Project, Cyprus, 2017

1th Chellavision short film fest, United States, 2017

Awards:

DIPLOMA BRAVERY from 9th TOFUZI, Georgia, 2017

GRAND PRIX from 2th Open Air Short Film Festival, Belarus, 2017

Bystander's link:

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/242556498

Address: facebook.com/bystander.shortanimation

Mohsen Bagheri Dastgerdi

Born in 1984, Iran.

Telephone (mobile): +989132801814

Email: mb.dastgerdi@yahoo.com

Website: facebook.com/m.b.dastgerdi

Address: No. 28, Safir-Omid 9, Alley 105, Imam Reza Blvd, Shahrekord, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Iran - Zip

code: 8814874768

Education

Civil Engineer (Graduated in 2011)

Iranian Youth Cinema Society (IYCS) Studies Graduate (2007)

Job Records

Manager of the film department Hoze Honari Shahrekord, Iran (Since 2007)

Filmmaking records

The writer of more than 10 short scripts and one feature screenplay. Director of 6 short films.

Presence at international festivals such as:

68th Montecatini International Short Film Festival, Italy, 2017

34th Tehran International Short Film Festival, Iran, 2017

33rd International Short Film Festival Berlin - interfilm, Germany, 2017

12th Pontino Short Film Festival, Italy, 2017

11th Kinofest International Digital Film Festival, Romania, 2017

14th International Short Film Festival Detmold, Germany, 2018

30th Minimalen Short Film Festival, Norway, 2018

Getting numerous awards in film and script (national and international) such as:

BEST SCREENPLAY - 2nd Place from 2th Polish International Film Festival, Poland, 2017

DIPLOMA BRAVERY from 9th TOFUZI, Georgia, 2017

GRAND PRIX from 2th Open Air Short Film Festival, Belarus, 2017