Captive, Waiting,...
Documentary
23 minutes
2002

This movie is about a group of Iraqi war captives who have spent 20 years in a camp in Iran longing for freedom but it seems as if all the world has forgotten them except for the birds in the camp, which have become their companions.

Writer, director, and cinematographer: Mohammad Ahmadi
Edit: Mohammad Shirvani
Sound: Behrooz Shahamat
Producer: Mohammad Ahmadi
Distributor: Mohammad Atebbai, atebbai@intelirnet.net

1) The 55th Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland, August 1-11, 2002
2) The 29th Flanders International Film Festival of gent, Belgium, October 8-19, 2002
3) The 19th tehran International Short Film Festival, Iran, 2002
4) The 9th Sacred Defence Film Festival, Tehran, iran, 2002
* Awarded the Best Narration Prize
5) The 7th Pusan International Film Festival, South Korea, November 14-23, 2002
6) The 15th International Documentary Filmfestival of Amsterdam (IDFA), The Netherlands, November 20- December 1, 2002
7) The 1st Sony Festival of Young Filmmakers, Tehran, Iran, 2003
8) The 21st Fajr International Film Festival, tehran, Iran, February 1-11, 2003
9) The 4th Kish Documentary Film Festival, Iran, February 22-26, 2003
* Awarded the Prize of Best Narration
10) The 5th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Images of 21st Century, Greece, February 28- March 9, 2003
11) The 1st Chicago Interntional Documentary film Festival, USA, March 21-30, 2003
12) The 5th ONE WORLD Human Rights Documentary Festival, Prague, Czech Republic, April 8-16, 2003
* Awarded the Best Short Documentary Prize
13) The 5th Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival, Argentina, April 16-26, 2003
14) The 2nd Tribeca International film Festival, New York, USA, May 6- 11, 2003
15) The 43rd Cracow International Short Film Festival, Poland, May 28- June 1, 2003
16) The 1st SILVERDOCS International Documentary Film Festival, USA, June 18-22, 2003
17) The 52nd Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia, July 23- August 10, 2003
18) The 9th Sarajevo International film Festival, Bosnia & Herzegovina, August 15-23, 2003
19) The 32nd Montreal International festival of New Cinema & Media, Canada, October 9-19, 2003
20) The ONE WORLD International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival of Bratislava, Slovakia, November 5-9, 2003
21) The Cosovo ONE WORLD International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, December 3-10, 2003
22) 21st International Short Film Festival Hamburg, Germany, June 8th - 13th 2005

- Gold plate and honorary diploma for best dialogue from the fourth Kish Festival, 2002
- Honorary diploma for best dialogue from the ninth Holy defense festival, Mashhad, 2002
- Winner of Best Short Documentary from The 5th Human Rights Documentary Film Festival of prague, ONE WORLD, Czech Republic 2003
- Best documentary film from Melbourne Film Festival, Australia 2003

Captive, Waiting,..