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Iranian Films Receive Six Awards in Venice Sept. 14, 2020 Plato (Athenian philosopher) Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight 12 to the imagination, and life to everything. Arts & Culture License Holder: Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) Ambassador: Iran, China Editor-in-Chief: Kambakhsh Khalaji Editorial Dept. Tel: +98 21 88755761-2 Editorial Dept. Fax: +98 21 88761869 enjoy historical cultural relations Subscription Dept. Tel: +98 21 88748800 ICPI Publisher: +98 21 88548892, 5 Advertising Dept. Tel & Email: +98 21 88500617 - [email protected] Iran’s Ambassador to Beijing Mohammad Keshavarz-zadeh We b s it e : www.irandailyonline.ir said Iran and China enjoy historical cultural relations. newspaper.irandaily.ir Keshavarz-zadeh made the remarks in his speech to Chi- Email: [email protected] na’s One Belt, One Road Intangible Cultural Heritage Ex- Printing House: Iran Cultural & Press Institute change Forum, and tweeted in a post on Sunday. The One Belt, One Road Initiative – a development strat- Address: Iran Cultural & Press Institute, #208 Khorramshahr Avenue Tehran-Iran egy first announced Iran Daily has no responsibility whatsoever for the advertisements and promotional material printed in the newspaper. by Chinese Presi- dent Xi Jinping in 2013 – is a trans- portation and in- vestment move that follows cooperation Iranian films among countries in different con- tinents, IRNA re- IRNA ported. receive six awards in Venice Cooperation be- tween Iranian and Chinese museums is at a good level, the ambassador tweeted. Compiled from Dispatches com reported. In 2021, the National Museum of Iran will hold an exhi- Together, they awarded the bition in different Chinese cities to showcase Iran’s art trea- ranian films received six festival’s top prizes, includ- sures, the Iranian envoy added. awards at the 77th Venice ing the Golden Lion, which last The National Museum of Iran has already participated in IFilm Festival, which was year went to ‘Joker,’ under jury various Chinese fairs including ‘Longquan of the World: held amid the coronavirus out- president Lucrecia Martel. This Longquan Celadon and Globalization’ as well as exhibitions break. year’s Golden Lion went to ‘No- of Asian civilizations, and intangible cultural heritage. In the competition section, the madland,’ which received a rap- Marcello Mastroianni Award for turous reception out of the To- Best Young Actor went to Rouhol- ronto International Film Festival Iran’s ‘Violet Field’ to contend lah Zamani for ‘Sun Children,’ as well, and looks to be headed directed by Majid Majidi. This is straight for Oscar contention. while in Horizon (Orizzonti) sec- Meanwhile, in the Orizzonti, in Romania vimooz.com tion, ‘The Wasteland,’ directed or Horizons, section running Iranian short flick ‘Violet Field’ is slated to compete at the by Ahmad Bahrami received the parallel to the main competition, theaters have been closed, film fifth edition of the Bucharest Film Awards (BFA) in Romania Best Film award. French favorite Claire Denis sets shut down and moviego- on September 19. ‘The Wasteland’ also grabbed (‘High Life,’ ‘Beau Travail’) led ers forced to embrace streaming Directed by Abtin Salimi-Tari and written by Iman Afshar- the FIPRESCI award handed out the jury. video at home instead, during ian, the short film narrates the story of a girl named Reyhaneh by the Independent Federation The 77th edition of the festi- months of coronavirus-imposed whose grandmother, Aziz, is in the deathbed, ifilmtv.com re- of Film Critics on the sidelines GETTY IMAGES val took place in a year when lockdown. ported. of the Italian festival as well Majid Majidi receives on behalf of Iranian actor Rouhollah Zamani (inset) When Reyhaneh, whose grandmother is her only friend, as Italy’s Fai Cisl Studio e Ri- the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor during the closing ceremony at the 77th Venice Film Festival on September 12, 2020 in becomes distressed, Rahman, her father, decides to transfer cerche Foundation award. Venice, Italy. Aziz to a health clinic in another village. Majidi’s ‘Sun Children’ also The cast of the film includes Fatemeh Heidari, Aqdas won the Magic Lantern award at Ali (Rouhollah Zamani) and his the workers in front of his of- Mazaherzadeh, Iman Afsharian and Hamed Abrishami. the festival. three friends help support their fice. He wants to talk to them ‘Careless Crime,’ the latest families through odd jobs, even about the factory’s shutdown. production by Shahram Mokri, stealing a tire or two. One day, All that matters now to Lotfollah won the Best Original Screen- they are told a hidden treasure is is to keep Sarvar unharmed, the play award at the International buried underneath a school for woman he has been in love with Film Critics’ Week (SIC). The street children. To dig for it, they for a long time.” film was an entry to the Oriz- must enroll. Led by jury president Cate zonti section of the festival, ‘The Wasteland’s synopsis Blanchett, the jurors for the which is dedicated to films that reads, “A remote brick manu- main competition included Aus- represent the latest aesthetic and facture factory produces bricks trian director Veronika Franz expressive trends in internation- in an ancient way. Many fami- (‘Goodnight Mommy,’ ‘The al cinema. lies with different ethnicities Lodge’), British filmmaker Jo- ‘Careless Crime’ goes back to work in the factory and the boss anna Hogg (‘The Souvenir’), 40 years ago, during the uprising seems to hold the key to solving Italian writer and novelist Nic- ifilmtv.com to overthrow the Shah’s regime their problems. Forty-year-old ola Lagioia, German filmmaker in Iran, when protestors set fire Lotfollah, who has been born Christian Petzold (‘Phoenix,’ The BFA aims to host film professionals and enthusiasts to movie theaters as a way of on-site, is the factory supervi- ‘Barbara’), actor Matt Dillon and creates a space to promote creativity. showing opposition to Western sor and acts as a go-between (‘Crash’), and French actress Director of ‘The Wasteland’ Ahmad Bahrami gestures at the festival’s Both amateur and experienced filmmakers can connect and culture. for the workers and the boss. Ludivine Sagnier (‘Swimming closing ceremony of the 77th Venice Film Festival on September 12, 2020 share their experience and art in this festival. In ‘Sun Children,’ 12-year-old Boss Lotfollah has gathered all Pool,’ ‘8 Women’), indiewire. in Venice, Italy. The shrunken heads at that visitors often see the sas, this involves consult- Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Mu- Oxford museum removes displays of human remains ing with Shuar and Achuar seum were removed from as a testament to other representatives. Miguel display, after 80 years. In cultures being “savage,” Puwáinchir and Felipe a case prominently en- shrunken heads from “primitive” or “gruesome”. Tsenkush, Shuar leaders, titled, “Treatment of Dead Van Broekhoven said that said: “We don’t want to be Enemies,” they have long display after 80 years “rather than enabling our thought of as dead people been the greatest attraction visitors to reach a deeper to be exhibited in a mu- for many visitors, but will understanding of each oth- seum, described in a book, be hidden away in store Tsantsas were made by Of these, seven are human er’s ways of being, the dis- or recorded on film… Our when the museum reopens peeling back the skin and heads (the others are sloth plays reinforced racist and ancestors handed over these on September 22, after the hair of a severed head. The and monkey). stereotypical thinking that sacred objects without fully coronavirus closure. bones, brain and other mat- Laura Van Broekhoven, goes against the museum’s realizing the implications.” Known as tsantsas, the ter were discarded, with the the museum director, has core values.” Although face-to-face shrunken heads were made skin being soaked briefly in been overseeing an ethical She believes that action discussions have been put by the Shuar and Achuar hot water to shrink it. The examination of the muse- is now needed, not just on hold because of coro- people who live in the rain eye sockets and mouth were um’s entire display, which talk: “Instead of waiting, navirus, this will hopefully forests of Ecuador and sewn shut to prevent the es- contains over 50,000 ob- we decided on a proactive continue next year. Van Peru. Until the late 19th cape of what was regarded jects. This has resulted in approach – to take human Broekhoven has an open at- century the heads of dead as a dead man’s soul, with a total 120 objects made remains off display, to go titude as to whether it will male enemies were taken the resulting heads ending with human remains from to the communities from mean the tsantsas “remain HUGH WARWICK/ theartnewspaper.com and preserved to acquire up the size of a large or- all cultures being removed University of Oxford where the objects came, in store, are put back on the powers that had been lo- ange. to the stores in the past few and to work with them to show in a new display co- cated in the bodies of their The Pitt Rivers Museum weeks, including the tsant- much discussion in re- across the world, this has Lives Matter protests. find new ways of caring for curated with the communi- foe, theartnewspaper.com has 12 tsantsas, acquired sas. cent years about change at been intensified by repatri- The museum’s audi- these objects.” ties, or repatriated to Ecua- reported. between 1884 and 1936. Although there has been ethnographical museums ation claims and the Black ence research has shown With regard to the tsant- dor and Peru”. Weather 29 31 19 34 20 28 22 31 17 33 15 19 29 13 45 28 29 16 30 22 17 9 Amol Jiroft Ramsar Shahriar Shiraz Tehran Dushanbe Mecca Berlin Tokyo Toronto.
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