Tehran International Short Film Festival (TISFF) announces its selected films to compete in the international program of its 39th edition.
According to the international Affairs department of TISFF, this year more than 5000 films from 131 countries were submitted to the festival and 59 films amongst them were chosen by the international selection committee to compete in international section.
Since 2020, TISFF is an ACADEMY AWARDS® qualifying event and the winner of its Grand Prix will be introduced to OSCARS®.
The list of selected films goes as follows:
| Title | Director | Country | Genre | DURATION |
| The Bones | Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña | Chile | Animation | 14 |
| Humans Are Dumber When Crammed Up Together | Laurène Fernandez | FRANCE | Animation | 4 |
| PASAJERO (Passenger) | Juan Pablo Zaramella | Argentina | Animation | 10 |
| The House of Loss | Jinkyu Jeon | Japan | Animation | 9.5 |
| DISCONNECTED HEAD | Andreas Hans Duerr | Germany | Animation | 7 |
| How I Grew Up | Yufei Liu | China | Animation | 8 |
| Magnified City | Isaku Kaneko | Japan | Animation | 12 |
| MERRY BIG MESS | Group Directing | France | Animation | 7 |
| PINOCCHIO | Group Directing | France | Animation | 6 |
| Absence | Marc Héricher | France | Animation | 10 |
| salvation has no name | Joseph Wallace | United Kingdom | Animation | 17 |
| Sounds of Weariness | Taymour Boulos | Lebanon | Documentary | 12 |
| The empty sphere | Stéphanie Roland | Micronesia, Federated States of | Documentary | 20 |
| BLACK WAGON | Adilet Karzhoev | Kyrgyzstan | Documentary | 24 |
| A Winter’s Elegy | Aakash Chhabra | India | Documentary | 21 |
| RETREAT | Anabela Angelovska | germany | Documentary | 30 |
| HEIMAT | Giovanni Montagnana | ITALY | Documentary | 20 |
| Just 10 Watts | Oier Fuentes | SPAIN | Documentary | 19 |
| Infinity | Milan Zulic | Switzerland | Experimental | 6 |
| Antipode | Oliver Folcarelli | denmark | Experimental | 2 |
| In Memory Of | Mattia Bioli | Italy | Experimental | 6 |
| Please Leave a Message After the Tone | Risto-Pekka Blom | Finland | Experimental | 11 |
| BASSIN OF ATTRACTION | JONATHAN PÊPE | France | Experimental | 16 |
| BINARY | Elza Grimm | AUSTRIA | Experimental | 10.5 |
| Esterno Giorno (Exterior day) | Giulia Magno | ITALY | Experimental | 8 |
| Parasite Family | Prapat Jiwarangsan | Thailand | Experimental | 5 |
| DESCARTES | Concha Barquero | SPAIN | Experimental | 21 |
| Tvornica filmova (film Factory) | Silvestar Kolbas | CROATIA | Experimental | 15 |
| Lázadás (Revolt) | Bálint Erkel | HUNGARY | Experimental | 8 |
| SENILITY | Mattia Tognoni | Italy | Fiction | 15 |
| The Headhunter’s Daughter | Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan | Philippines | Fiction | 15 |
| UOGOS- CHERRIES | Vytautas Katkus | LITUANIA | Fiction | 15 |
| Intercom 15 | Andrei Epure | Romania | Fiction | 22 |
| Murder Tongue | Ali Sohail Jaura | Pakistan | Fiction | 17.5 |
| Tan. | Dery Prananda | Indonesia | Fiction | 24 |
| Fatjona | Steve Bache | Germany | Fiction | 27.5 |
| The rat | Zhantemir Baimukhamedov | Kazakhstan | Fiction | 29 |
| Spring Days | Imad Badi | Morocco | Fiction | 18.5 |
| Handstand | Ovsanna Shekoyan | Armenia | Fiction | 15 |
| WAID | Lorenz Piehl | Germany | Fiction | 20 |
| MIMINE | Simon Laganière | Canada | Fiction | 13.5 |
| MONSTERS | Frank Tremblay | Canada | Fiction | 15 |
| MOTHER’S DAY | Patryk Kaflowski | Poland | Fiction | 10.5 |
| Old Windows | Maythem Ridha | United kingsdom | Fiction | 17 |
| WHY DOES HELEN KOCH COMMIT SERIOUS VEHICLE THEFT? | Moritz Geiser | Germany | Fiction | 22 |
| Invisible Border | Mark Siegfried Gerstorfer | Austria | Fiction | 27 |
| Malabar | Maximilian Badier-Rosenthal | France | Fiction | 22.5 |
| Breakpoint | Nicolas PANAY | France | Fiction | 16.5 |
| All on Germania | Behraz Raphael Ghobadloo | Germany | Fiction | 22 |
| Same Old | Lloyd Lee Choi | US | Fiction | 15 |
| Mutations | Govinda Van Maele | Luxembourg | Fiction | 10 |
| Aska | Clara Milo | Canada | Fiction | 14 |
| LIVE | Mara Tamkovich | Poland | Fiction | 13 |
| A Broken Fan (Before the big collapse) | Assaad Khoueiry | Lebanon | Fiction | 12.5 |
| The Address | Aram Dildar | Turkey | Fiction | 15 |
| Action | Benoît MONNEY | Switzerland | Fiction | 7 |
| Voltige | Michael Dousse | United States of America | Fiction | 14 |
| Between the words | Farid Ismaïl | Luxembourg | Fiction | 14.5 |
| Ali and his miracle sheep | Maythem Ridha | iraq/ UK | Fiction | 27 |
39th edition of Tehran international short film festival will be held between 19-24 October in Tehran, Iran.
