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License Holder: Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) Tehran’s Azadi Tower to screen Editor-in-Chief: Kambakhsh Khalaji Editorial Dept. Tel: +98 21 88755761-2 calligraphy works through Editorial Dept. Fax: +98 21 88761869 Subscription Dept. Tel: +98 21 88748800 ICPI Publisher: +98 21 88548892, 5 video mapping Advertising Dept. Tel & Email: +98 21 88500617 - [email protected] We b s it e : www.irandaily.ir A selection of calligraphy works at the First Raqs-e Qalam Inter- newspaper.irandaily.ir national Exhibition of the Silk Road Calligraphy, which opened Email: [email protected] Friday at the Iranian Academy of Arts in Tehran, will be dis- Printing House: Iran Cultural & Press Institute played through video mapping over Azadi Tower in Tehran, Iran. The projection mapping will be performed today and will con- Address: Iran Cultural & Press Institute, #208 Khorramshahr Avenue Tehran-Iran tinue for four nights at the same location, from 18:30 to 20:00, Iran Daily has no responsibility whatsoever for the advertisements and promotional material printed in the newspaper. IRNA reported. Three Iranian films garner Dhaka accolades

hree Iranian films received awards from the 19th Dhaka International IRNA TFilm Festival (DIFF) in Bangla- desh, held January 16-24. Calligraphy works by 800 artists from 30 countries have been Iranian film, ‘Careless Crime,’ directed showcased at the exhibition which officially opened on Janu- by Shahram Mokri, won the Best Screen- ary 20 in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad. The Iranian play Award at the Competition Section; National Commission for UNESCO is the main organizer of the ‘Sunless Shadows,’ by Mehrdad Osk- exhibition. ouei, was named the Best Documentary On this occasion, the exhibition of works by pioneers of Ira- in the Spiritual Section; and ‘Tirishko,’ nian calligraphy will also be opened in Azadi Tower. by Shakiba Khaleqi, won the Best Short The international art event ends with the presence of ambas- Film Award in the Women Filmmakers sadors of participating countries and a group of officials and cul- Section. tural and media figures at a ceremony on January 28. Nassim Ahmadpour and Mokri, who According to UNESCO, the Silk Road enriched the countries wrote the screenplay of ‘Careless Crime,’ it passed through, transporting cultures, religions, languages and, received the Best Screenplay award, of course, material goods to societies across Europe, Asia and Af- IRNA reported. rica, and uniting them all with a common thread of cultural heri- ‘Careless Crime’ goes back to 40 years tage and plural identities. ago, during the uprising to overthrow the There are over 40 countries today along the historic land and Shah’s regime in Iran, when protesters set maritime Silk Roads, all still bearing witness to the impact of fire to movie theaters as a way of show- these routes in their cultures, traditions and customs. ing opposition to Western culture. IMDB lagvelki.com dreamlabfilms.com Mokri’s film won the Best Original Screenplay award at the International national cinema. annual basis but has become a biennial The 19th DIFF, organized by Rain- Switzerland’s timeless art Film Critics’ Week (SIC) during the It has also been accepted into the 2020 event since 1995. DIFF is one of the most bow Film Society, was held at the Al- 77th Venice International Film Festival. edition of Viennale Film Festival in Aus- prestigious film events in Bangladesh, liance Francaise de Dhaka, Star Cine- mechanics embraces 3D future The film was an entry to the Orizzonti tria. dedicated to introducing mainstream plex, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, section of the festival, which is dedi- DIFF is a biennial film festival held in global cinema to local filmmakers as well Central Public Library Auditorium and In his snow-bound workshop, Swiss master Francois Junod’s mov- cated to films that represent the latest Dhaka, Bangladesh. Established in 1992, as to promoting healthy cine culture with- Bangladesh National Museum Audito- ing mechanical artworks whir into action: Birds whistle, historical aesthetic and expressive trends in inter- the festival was initially organized on an in Bangladesh. rium. luminaries write poetry – traditional craftsmanship newly recog- nized as being among the world’s cultural heritage. In the Jura Mountains running along the French-Swiss border, his daughters who flatter their father. the precision skills behind some of the planet’s finest watches and Iranian animation ‘King Lear, Tragedy of Light’ The third daughter, who is not flatter- automatons have been handed down through the generations. ing her father, gets nothing. In the end, the The region’s historical pre-eminence in a field combining sci- awarded in Lithuania king reconciles with his third daughter but ence, art and technology has also been given a boost by the United their story culminates in a tragedy. Nations, AFP wrote. Iranian animation, ‘King Lear, Tragedy of tion is a free adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Lithuanian festival hosts short In December, the craftsmanship of mechanical watchmaking Light,’ garnered the Best Iranian Film Award famous tragedy ‘King Lear,’ ifilmtv.com films, animations, and documentaries and art mechanics in the Juras were jointly added to UNESCO’s at the 2021 Iconic Images Film Festival in reported. from around the world and provides an op- Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Human- Lithuania. ‘King Lear’ tells the story of a king who portunity for filmmakers to showcase their ity. Directed by Omid Movahedi, the anima- passes on his wealth and power to two of works. Junod is working on an automaton of Leonardo da Vinci. His tmff.net eyelids blink, and his sparkling eyes move, following his pen strokes as his arm moves from left to right. “It’s close to magic,” Junod told AFP as he brought Da Vinci’s head to life. Walter Bernstein: Blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter dies at 101

Screenwriter Walter Bernstein, among the last survivors “fronts,” people willing to lend their names for scripts he The blacklist began to weaken in the late 1950s and of Hollywood’s anti-communist blacklist, whose Oscar- had written. ended for Bernstein in 1959. He was soon working on nominated script for ‘’ drew upon his years of While many were blacklisted just for supporting left- ‘The Magnificent Seven,’ the Hollywood adaptation of being unable to work under his own name, died, aged 101. wing causes, Bernstein actually was a member of the Akira Kurosawa’s classic ‘Seven Samurai,’ and Marilyn HIs wife, the literary agent Gloria Loomis, said he died American Communist Party and remained so until 1956. Monroe’s last film that never finished, ‘Something’s Gotta of pneumonia, the Guardian wrote. Bernstein would remember his decision with “relief” over Give’. A Second World War correspondent for the military no longer abiding by Soviet philosophy and “sadness” for In the 1970s, Bernstein was able to use his own story for who also had been published in , Bern- the people who were fellow idealists. what became his most acclaimed project, ‘The Front,’ star- stein was at the start of what seemed a promising film ca- ring as a stand-in for blacklisted writers and reer when the Cold War and anti-communist paranoia led featuring Bernstein’s friend , who also had

FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP to his being blacklisted in 1950, a fate which ruined the been ostracized in the 50s. Bernstein received an Academy lives of many of his peers and led some to suicide. Award nomination in 1977 and a Writers Guild of America “There is renewed interest in these objects because we are living “I was starting to look around when I left my house, prize for best screen drama. Around the same time, Allen in an electronic age, and to see these mechanical artworks again – looking over my shoulder when I walked down the street, gave him an acting cameo in the Oscar-winning Annie the mystery comes back, the magic returns. bracing myself for the inevitable encounter,” he wrote in Hall. Pristine snow engulfs Junod’s studio in the village of Sainte- his memoir ‘Inside Out,’ published in 1996. His other writing credits included the Burt Reynolds Croix in western Switzerland, more than 1,000 meters (3,300 feet) “Even expecting it, I was startled when it came, and football comedy ‘Semi-Tough’ and films by such old up in the Juras, and less than five kilometers (three miles) from the there would be the sudden sour taste of fear for a moment friends as and . Bernstein him- French border. and then a shaming wave of anger, not at them but at my- self directed ‘Little Miss Marker,’ a 1980 release based on The area is a hotbed of creation in watchmaking and its close self for being afraid. I could never really get angry at them. the ‘’ short story. relative, art mechanics. They were only doing their job, like delivering milk.” In 1994, he received a lifetime achievement award from It has been so since the 1685 revocation of the Edict of Nantes, Unwilling to provide the House Un-American Activi- the Screen Writers’ Guild. Into his 90s, he taught screen- which saw Protestants flee France en masse, many heading for ties Committee names of suspected communists, the way writing at University and was an adviser to the safety in the Frontier Mountains, taking their skills and industrious- director Elia Kazan and others had been spared from ban- film school at the Sundance Institute, founded by Robert ness with them. ishment, Bernstein found employment through the use of Redford. nydailynews.com Weather 9 13 2 21 5 11 4 11 -4 17 -1 -2 7 -7 32 20 3 -1 13 4 1 -1 Amol Jiroft Ramsar Shahriar Shiraz Tehran Dushanbe Mecca Berlin Tokyo Toronto