The Iranian Film Festival Australia is back for its fifth year in theatres across Australia to shine a light on contemporary life in Iran.
The festival will kick off in Adelaide at The Mercury Cinema on October 9 before moving to Sydney, Canberra, Brisbane and Melbourne.
This year.s program will feature eleven features and six short films.
Festival co-director, Anne Demy-Geroe, said the changing political environment had influenced the Iranian film industry.
"This year will see the theme of relationships move to the forefront of the program,. she said.
.We.re hoping audiences will be curious about the transformation of Iranian cinema and will once again join us to explore and experience the thought provoking films now coming out of Iran..
Festival co-director Armin Miladi said the 2015 program featured three first-time filmmakers.
.We are proud to open with Safi Yazdanian.s What.s the time in your world?, a curiously...
The festival will kick off in Adelaide at The Mercury Cinema on October 9 before moving to Sydney, Canberra, Brisbane and Melbourne.
This year.s program will feature eleven features and six short films.
Festival co-director, Anne Demy-Geroe, said the changing political environment had influenced the Iranian film industry.
"This year will see the theme of relationships move to the forefront of the program,. she said.
.We.re hoping audiences will be curious about the transformation of Iranian cinema and will once again join us to explore and experience the thought provoking films now coming out of Iran..
Festival co-director Armin Miladi said the 2015 program featured three first-time filmmakers.
.We are proud to open with Safi Yazdanian.s What.s the time in your world?, a curiously...
- 9/29/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
Iran's Farabi Cinema Foundation has shortlisted 10 films that are being considered as potential candidates to represent the Middle Eastern nation in the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 88th Academy Awards. A team of experts from the Iranian film industry has been commissioned to review the films and make a final selection in the upcoming days. Iran is one of the last country's to submit a film into the race which this year includes films from 67 countries so far.
Here are the 10 films being considered:
Note that none of this films has secured U.S. distribution, thus rights are available.
"13"
Dir. Hooman Seyedi
Isa: Visual Media Institute
"Crazy Castle"
Dir. Abolhassan Davoodi
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"Fish & Cat"
Dir. Shahram Mokri
Isa: Iranian Independents
"I Am Diego Maradona"
Dir. Bahram Tavakoli
Isa: Iranian Independents
"The Long Goodbye"
Dir. Farzad Motamen
Isa: Farabi Cinema Foundation
"Melbourne"
Dir. Nima Javidi
Isa: Iranian Independents
"Muhammad: The Messenger of God"
Dir. Majid Majidi
PC: Nourtaban Film Indsutry
"Tales"
Dir. Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
Isa: Noori Pictures
"Track 143"
Dir. Narges Abyar
Isa: Irib Media Trade
"What's the Time in Your World?"
Dir. Safi Yazdanian
Isa: Dreamlab Films
Despite censorship and other restrictions imposed on Iranian filmmakers, which would never allowed a film like Panahi's "Taxi" to become the country's Oscar entry, Iranian cinema is thriving and the films in this list showcase a range of sophisticated stories that have gotten the attention of multiple international festivals.
Simply based on its scale and the talent involved, the clear favorite would be Majidi's biopic "Muhammad: The Messenger of God." Not only is the director one of the most internationally acclaimed Iranian auteurs of all time, but the film also has 3-time Academy Award-winner Vittorio Storaro as its Dp. It's also the most expensive Iranian film ever made. However, regardless of these numerous qualities, the committee might choose to look elsewhere to avoid more controversy as the film has been banned in other Muslim countries that reject any visual depiction of the prophet, even if his face never appears in the film.
If Majidi's epic is deemed too much of a liability, there are plenty of other great options among the shortlisted works: Yazdanian's "What's the Time in Your World?" stars two of Iran's most well-known actors, Leila Hatami ("A Separation") and Ali Mosaffa ("The Past"), and won the Fipresci Prize at last year's Busan International Film Festival; "Tales" won the Best Screenplay award at the 2014 Venice Film Festival and stars "A Separation's" Peyman Moaadi; "Melbourne," which also stars Moaadi, had extensive presence in the festival circuit picking up several awards, and Mokri's "Fish & Cat" screened at AFI Fest and won a Special Prize in Venice back in 2013.
Iran won its first Academy Award with Asghar Farhadi's masterpiece "A Separation" in 2012. Prior to that deserved win, the country had only been nominated once for Majid Majidi's "Children of Heaven."...
Here are the 10 films being considered:
Note that none of this films has secured U.S. distribution, thus rights are available.
"13"
Dir. Hooman Seyedi
Isa: Visual Media Institute
"Crazy Castle"
Dir. Abolhassan Davoodi
Facebook Page
"Fish & Cat"
Dir. Shahram Mokri
Isa: Iranian Independents
"I Am Diego Maradona"
Dir. Bahram Tavakoli
Isa: Iranian Independents
"The Long Goodbye"
Dir. Farzad Motamen
Isa: Farabi Cinema Foundation
"Melbourne"
Dir. Nima Javidi
Isa: Iranian Independents
"Muhammad: The Messenger of God"
Dir. Majid Majidi
PC: Nourtaban Film Indsutry
"Tales"
Dir. Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
Isa: Noori Pictures
"Track 143"
Dir. Narges Abyar
Isa: Irib Media Trade
"What's the Time in Your World?"
Dir. Safi Yazdanian
Isa: Dreamlab Films
Despite censorship and other restrictions imposed on Iranian filmmakers, which would never allowed a film like Panahi's "Taxi" to become the country's Oscar entry, Iranian cinema is thriving and the films in this list showcase a range of sophisticated stories that have gotten the attention of multiple international festivals.
Simply based on its scale and the talent involved, the clear favorite would be Majidi's biopic "Muhammad: The Messenger of God." Not only is the director one of the most internationally acclaimed Iranian auteurs of all time, but the film also has 3-time Academy Award-winner Vittorio Storaro as its Dp. It's also the most expensive Iranian film ever made. However, regardless of these numerous qualities, the committee might choose to look elsewhere to avoid more controversy as the film has been banned in other Muslim countries that reject any visual depiction of the prophet, even if his face never appears in the film.
If Majidi's epic is deemed too much of a liability, there are plenty of other great options among the shortlisted works: Yazdanian's "What's the Time in Your World?" stars two of Iran's most well-known actors, Leila Hatami ("A Separation") and Ali Mosaffa ("The Past"), and won the Fipresci Prize at last year's Busan International Film Festival; "Tales" won the Best Screenplay award at the 2014 Venice Film Festival and stars "A Separation's" Peyman Moaadi; "Melbourne," which also stars Moaadi, had extensive presence in the festival circuit picking up several awards, and Mokri's "Fish & Cat" screened at AFI Fest and won a Special Prize in Venice back in 2013.
Iran won its first Academy Award with Asghar Farhadi's masterpiece "A Separation" in 2012. Prior to that deserved win, the country had only been nominated once for Majid Majidi's "Children of Heaven."...
- 9/25/2015
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Sydney's Buzz
The fifth edition of the Bengaluru International Film Festival will hold retrospectives of Girish Kasaravalli and Jahnu Barua among others. Five of Kasaravalli’s films: Tabarana Kathe (1986), Kraurya (1996), Thaayi Saheba (1997), Dweepa (2003) and Hasina (2004)will be screened. While Barua’s Halodhia Choraye Baodhan Khai (1987), Banani (1990), Firingoti (1992) and Hkhagoroloi Bohu Door(1995) will be screened.
Besides, three other sections are dedicated to Indian cinema. Chitrabharathi – Indian Cinema Competition, Kannada Cinema (competition and screening of films in other dialects in Karnataka) and 100 years of Indian Cinema (screening of 14 films).
Complete line up:
Retrospective
Chan-Wook Park (South Korea)
1. J.S.A.: Joint Security Area (Chan-Wook Park/110/2000/South Korea)
2. Sympathy for Mr Vengeance (Chan-Wook Park/129/2002/South Korea)
3. Old boy (Chan-Wook Park/120/2003/South Korea)
4. Lady Vengeance (Chan-Wook Park/112/2005/South Korea)
5. Thirst (Chan-Wook Park/133/2009/South Korea)
Fatih Akin (Germany)
1. Short Sharp Shock (Fatih Akin/100/1998/Germany)
2. In July (Fatih Akin/99/2000/Germany)
3. Solino (Fatih Akin/124/2002/Germany)
4. Head On (Fatih Akin/121/2004/Germany/Turkey...
Besides, three other sections are dedicated to Indian cinema. Chitrabharathi – Indian Cinema Competition, Kannada Cinema (competition and screening of films in other dialects in Karnataka) and 100 years of Indian Cinema (screening of 14 films).
Complete line up:
Retrospective
Chan-Wook Park (South Korea)
1. J.S.A.: Joint Security Area (Chan-Wook Park/110/2000/South Korea)
2. Sympathy for Mr Vengeance (Chan-Wook Park/129/2002/South Korea)
3. Old boy (Chan-Wook Park/120/2003/South Korea)
4. Lady Vengeance (Chan-Wook Park/112/2005/South Korea)
5. Thirst (Chan-Wook Park/133/2009/South Korea)
Fatih Akin (Germany)
1. Short Sharp Shock (Fatih Akin/100/1998/Germany)
2. In July (Fatih Akin/99/2000/Germany)
3. Solino (Fatih Akin/124/2002/Germany)
4. Head On (Fatih Akin/121/2004/Germany/Turkey...
- 12/7/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Salt White
Written and directed by Ketevan Machavariani
2011, Georgia
Salt White is a moody, bleak first feature by Georgian director Ketevan Machavariani. Set in a post-communist Georgian Black Sea resort, Salt White is at first glance an unpretentious chronicling of the daily lives of an assortment of underdog characters – proud but impecunious waitress Nana, her jaded, brutish policeman of a suitor Niko, and a gang of street children of varying ages. Yet the film has a surreal charisma served by a breathtakingly atmospheric cinematography: the metallic surface of the sea, the craggy hyper-real, pebbly texture of the forlorn beach, the brooding long takes convey a hermetic, hopeless desolation that somehow manages to insinuate itself into the viewer’s sympathy.
Policeman
Written and directed by Nadav Lapid
2011, Israel
Policeman, a rather atypical Israeli offering dealing with home-grown extreme-left terrorism, is a refreshingly unpredictable triptychal thriller opening with a hyper-intimate quasi-voyeuristic sequence of the policeman in question,...
Written and directed by Ketevan Machavariani
2011, Georgia
Salt White is a moody, bleak first feature by Georgian director Ketevan Machavariani. Set in a post-communist Georgian Black Sea resort, Salt White is at first glance an unpretentious chronicling of the daily lives of an assortment of underdog characters – proud but impecunious waitress Nana, her jaded, brutish policeman of a suitor Niko, and a gang of street children of varying ages. Yet the film has a surreal charisma served by a breathtakingly atmospheric cinematography: the metallic surface of the sea, the craggy hyper-real, pebbly texture of the forlorn beach, the brooding long takes convey a hermetic, hopeless desolation that somehow manages to insinuate itself into the viewer’s sympathy.
Policeman
Written and directed by Nadav Lapid
2011, Israel
Policeman, a rather atypical Israeli offering dealing with home-grown extreme-left terrorism, is a refreshingly unpredictable triptychal thriller opening with a hyper-intimate quasi-voyeuristic sequence of the policeman in question,...
- 2/6/2012
- by Zornitsa
- SoundOnSight
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