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Dear Sis: Hair Cuts Season of the Boys Beijing Cotton-Fluffer Jiang Hu: Life on the Road Living Elsewhere Old Men I Am 17 Years Old in 1997 Magcojaodkal 98 Notes Before the Revolution An Autumn Fable For Maya How Do I Survive, My Friend! I Sing the Body Electric Kumar Talkies A Season Outside Jakarta Stock Shots: No. 7 Kamas Dolls Silk Tehran, the 25th Hour Trap After School Bicycles Annyong-Kimchi The New God Princess Plum P-udding The Children of North Korea Escaped to China Talbuk Sonyeondul Chungguk e Kada Making Sundried Red Peppers Gochoo Maligi The Three-Legged Crow Empty House Bin Chip Jaiyk Child of Mermaid Between Us Two... Beirut The Spirit Doesn't Come Anymore Tension Title Deed from Moses Made In the Philippines ... To Fukuoka with Love Return to the Tribes Boys for Beauty Funny Competition Between Labor and Management: You Have Me in You I Love (080) The Red Leaf Legend Swimming on the Highway Two Guys Go Hunting Exotic 101 thirdworld The Hearts That Can't See the Sun Between Two Banks		Kamas Dolls Arousakha-ye Kamas IRAN / 1995 / Persian / Color / 16mm / 28 min Director, Script: Bahram Azimpour Photography: Morteza Poursamadi Sound: Mehdi Azadi Editing: Abbas Ganjavi Producer: Mohammad-Reza Sarhangi Source: Cima Media International 64 Hedayat St, Yakhchal Ave., Tehran 19497 IRAN Phone: 98-21-2548032 / Fax: 98-21-2551914 　 Bahram Azimpour Born in 1959 in Tehran. Graduate of Tehran University's Faculty of Fine Arts, majoring in Stage Directing. Besides directing and acting in a number of plays, he was involved in professional Iranian cinema as assistant director, programmer, and casting director since 1989. Kamas Dolls was his first experience in filmmaking as a director. Other documentaries include Chamar (1996), and Dobeh (1996). A piece of wood is wrapped in several layers of cloth scraps. Such are dolls for the girls of Kamas village. Dolls, but more like alter-egos, as the girls change their ' clothes' and play-act their rituals according to the adult world. Their attitude is serious; this is no ' game' for them. Only when they allow the dolls to dance to wedding music do brilliant carefree smiles break out. One of many excellent films in a series presenting children from all regions of Iran. Director's Statement Kamas is a village in the western part of Iran, in a province named "Kurdestan," where Kurds live. Kamas Dolls is the poetic expression of work, play, friendships and dreams of village girls, in the form of dolls which they make themselves; girls who practice life with their dolls alongside their mothers. During daytime, the village girls work like grownups and at night they put their dolls to sleep in cradles, singing lullabies to them. The dolls die; the girls bury the dead in a ceremony. They put black clothes on their dolls and mourn for the dead one along with the other dolls. And when the village is filled with joy over a wedding, the girls put colorful clothes on their dolls and take them to the feast. The dolls dance and joy, and so do the girls; a dance mixed with childhood dreams and regrets of Kamas girls. 　 beforenext COPYRIGHT:Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival Organizing Committee