Art & Culture October 22, 2019 3 This Day in History Spotlight Award Goes to ‘Raheel’ in U.S. ENE Festival (October 22) illegally traveled to Iran to look for section which was dedicated to Iran. th rd Today is Tuesday; 30 of the Iranian month of Mehr 1398 solar hijri; corresponding to 23 of the Islamic month her husband, but there comes up some “Talent does not discriminate. of Safar 1441 lunar hijri; and October 22, 2019, of the Christian Gregorian Calendar. problems that leave her no hope to Throughout the submission process we 1278 solar years ago, on this day in 741 AD, Charles Martel, the Frankish statesman and military leader who, as Duke of the Franks, was de facto ruler of Francia, died after 23 years in power. An illegitimate son of move ahead. have discovered a vein of gifted and the German chief, Pepin, he was notorious for his barbaric nature as marauder of the frontiers of the Roman The 2019 ENE also screened ‘The talented filmmakers coming out of Iran. Empire. He took advantage of the infighting amongst the Muslims to lead the Christians to victory in the Last Embrace’ and ‘The Man Who For- The Islamic Republic of Iran has long Battle of Tours, near Poitiers in , southwest of Paris, where in 732 the Omayyad forces were defeated got to Breathe’ by Saman Hosseinpour, been shrouded in propaganda and polit- and their commander, Abdur-Rahman al-Ghafiqi, killed. In 737, he again crushed an Omayyad army at Arles ‘Starvation’ by Zahra Rostampour, ical rhetoric. We at ENE aim to show- in southern France. He then took the city by a direct and brutal frontal attack, and burned it to the ground. He ‘Are You Volleyball?!’ by Mohammad case a different side of Iran where pol- then moved swiftly and defeated a mighty host outside of Narbonnea at the River Berre, but failed to take the Bakhshi, ‘Birthday Night’ by Omid itics and propaganda have no foothold. city. Many historians, including Edward Creasy, believe that had Martel failed at Tours, the Muslims would Shams, ‘Slow Death’ by Amin Sahraee, This year, we are honored to showcase probably have overrun Gaul, and perhaps the remainder of Western Europe. The British historian, Edward as well as ‘Slaughter’ co-directed by the works of these young and visionary Gibbon believed that the Muslim armies would have conquered up to the River Rhine, and even England, had Saman Hosseinpour and Ako Zand- Iranian filmmakers, and celebrate their Martel not prevailed. 1113 solar years ago, on this day in 906 AD, Ahmad ibn Kayghalagh, a Turkic general of the Abbasid regime, Karimi, all from Iran. courage and spirit at our multi-cultural joined by the governor of Tarsus, the Iranian Rustam ibn Baradu al-Farghani, led a deep raid into the Byzantine The Iranian lineup also included ‘The event,” ENE website wrote. Empire, defeating Eastern Roman armies as far as Halys River (Qızılırmak in what is now Turkey), and seizing Old Man and the Dead’ by Amir Fala- The ENE celebrates independent large booty, including some 5,000 prisoners. Some of the local Greek commanders surrendered to the Muslims A still from Iranian short film ‘Raheel’. ki, ‘In Perspective’ by Arshia Zeinali, films, music, and the green technolo- and embraced Islam. Rustam al-Farghani on several occasions supervised the exchange of prisoners with the ‘Déjà vu’ by Nasim Forouq, ‘Not Ac- gy industry all at the crossroads of the Byzantines. Ahmad ibn Kayghalagh, who was appointed governor of Syria and of Egypt, on being deposed TEHRAN (IFILM) -- Iranian short Ayat Asadi-Rahbar, the short film re- ceptable’ by Saman Haqiqivand, ‘Uto- future to be a part of a diverse and cre- and defeated by the Abbasid regime in 935, defected to the rising empire of the Fatemid Shi’a Ismaili Muslim ‘Raheel’ has won an award at the 2019 ceived Spotlight Award at the 2019 pia’ by Mehdi Qorbani, and ‘Who Eats ative global community. Dynasty of North Africa and Sicily that would soon conquer Egypt, Syria and Hijaz. East Northeast International Film Festi- ENE. My Friend’ by Ali (Milad) Aqazadeh. The 2019 ENE was held on October 641 lunar years ago, on this day in 800 AH, Taj od-Din Ferouz Shah ascended the Turquoise Throne in val (ENE) in the U.S. The 30-minute flick tells the story of Most of the Iranian titles went on 10-14 in Newburgh, New York, the Gulbarga, as the 8th ruler of the Bahmani Dynasty of Iranian origin of the Deccan in South India by deposing Written, produced and directed by Raheel, an Afghan national who has screen during the festival’s Spotlight U.S. the boy-king Shams ud-Din Daud Shah II, installed five months earlier as the puppet ruler by the Turkic slave- commander Tughalchin, who had blinded and dethroned the elder brother, Ghiyas od-Din Tahmatan Shah, only two months after the 17-year old had succeeded his father Mahmoud Shah. Ferouz, the son-in-law of Mahmoud ‘The Clown’ Sweeps Awards at Warsaw Festival Shah and a grandson of Ala od-Din Bahman Shah, the founder of the kingdom, ruled for 25 years. He was the most learned and cultured ruler, and besides his native Persian, was well versed in the Arabic, Turkic, TEHRAN (FNA) -- Iranian Associations (www..org) Telugu, Kanada and Marathi languages. A poet, mathematician, and calligrapher, writing under the pennames movie ‘The Clown’ directed by as international film festivals - “Uruji” and “Ferouzi”, he patronized art and literature and kept the company of scholars and religious figures. Homayoun Ghanizadeh received next to Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Among the public works undertaken by him was an observatory on the chain of hills near Dowlatabad. His prime minister was the Iranian migrant scholar-statesman Mir Fazlullah Inju of Shiraz, who earlier in the reign three awards in the 2019 War- Locarno, San Sebastian, Karlo- of Mahmoud Shah had invited the renowned Iranian poet, Khwaja Hafez Shirazi to the Deccan. Ferouz was saw International vy Vary, Tokyo, Moscow, Mar inclined towards the school of the Ahl al-Bayt or Blessed Household of Prophet Mohammad (SAWA). in Poland. del Plata, Montreal, Shanghai, 525 solar years ago, on this day in 1494 AD, the second expedition of the Italian sailor, Christopher Columbus, The movie was granted the Cairo, Goa, and Tallinn,” the started from with the assistance of Spanish Muslims, who very well knew the sea routes of the Atlantic awards for best movie and best WFF official website wrote. Ocean including what the Europeans later called the American continent. Columbus landed on the Antilles islands in the Caribbean Sea. Two years earlier in 1492, he had made his first expedition to this new world, director as well as Special Jury WFF audiences - usually which he thought was India, and hence the Spanish called the indigenous American people, Red Indians. Award. as the first people in Poland 385 solar years ago, on this day in 1634 AD, in the Battle of Southern Fujian Sea, the Ming dynasty of China “Established in 1985, the - could discover American in- defeated the Dutch East India Company. joined in dependent cinema as well as 312 solar years ago, on this day in 1707 AD, the Scilly naval disaster occurred as four warships of a British 2009 the elite group of events Asian, Latin American, Ira- fleet sank near the Isles of Scilly off the southwestern tip of the Cornish peninsula of Britain, in severe weather, resulting in the death of 1,550 sailors, along with Admiral Cloudesley Shovell. It was one of the worst maritime recognized by the International nian, Russian and Romanian disasters, as a result of the navigators’ miscalculation. Federation of Film Producers cinema. 229 solar years ago, on this day in 1790 AD, Warriors of the Miami tribe under Chief Little Turtle defeated US troops under General Josiah Harmar at the site of present-day Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the Northwest Indian War. The next year, the Amerindians again defeated a US army at St. Clair, killing about 1,000 soldiers. After Tehran Holds Animation Day in Nature St. Clair’s disaster, President George Washington ordered General “Mad” Anthony Wayne to attack the natives, and in 1794 at the Battle of Fallen Timbers, he brutally massacred a large number of natives and forced the TEHRAN (MNA) – ASIFA at this special program have until tribal leaders to cede extensive territory, including much of present-day Ohio, as per the Treaty of Greenville in Iran, in collaboration with the Ira- 26th October to register. 1795. The US has since unleashed genocide to eliminate the race and culture of the native Amerindian people. nian Animation Guild, will be or- October 28 was proclaimed as ganizing a special outing in the na- the International Animation Day 188 lunar years ago, on this day in 1253 AH, the Treaty of Tafna was forced by the French occupiers on Algerian leader, Seyyed Abdul-Qader al-Hassani al-Jaza’eri, resulting in the occupation of a third of this ture on November 8th to celebrate in 2002 by the ASIFA as the main country including Oran and Algiers. Two years later, the French breached the clauses of their own imposed the 18th International Animation global event to celebrate the art treaty and gradually occupied the whole of Algeria. Abdul-Qader was taken prisoner and sent to Paris. Years Day. of animation. This day com- later he was released, but not allowed to go back to Algeria. He went to Syria and stayed there till he died. The program, lasting from 8 memorates the first public per- Algeria in 1961 became independent after the French had killed at least a million Algerian Muslims. AM to 10 PM on November 8th, formance of Charles-Émile Rey- 140 lunar years ago, on this day in 1301 AH, the prominent Iranian religious scholar, Shaikh Mohammad includes picnicking on the out- naud’s Théâtre Optique at the Baqer Aqa Najafi Isfahani, passed away at the age of 67. After preliminary studies in Isfahan, he went to skirts of capital Tehran, screen- Grevin Museum in Paris, 1892. Iraq for higher studies at the famous seminary of the holy city of Najaf. On returning to Iran, he taught at ing of nominated short animated The International Animated the Isfahan seminary, grooming students and writing books. He wielded wide social influence and attached films of Iran Independent Ani- Film Association (ASIFA) is an paramount importance to promotion of virtue and prevention of vice. His books include “Lobb al-Fiqh”, and mation Celebration, and an inter- international non-profit orga- “Lobb al-Osoul”. active animation performance in nization founded in 1960, with 123 solar years ago, on this day in 1896 AD, American biochemist, Charles Glen King, who discovered the nature by Aghil Hosseinian. chapters in as many as 30 coun- vitamin C, was born. After five years of painstaking research extracting components from lemon juice, in Those interested in taking part tries including Iran. 1932, he isolated vitamin C. Its structure was quickly determined and it was synthesized by scientists such as Haworth and Reichstein in 1933. Also known as ascorbic acid, (a- = not, without; scorbus = scurvy), vitamin C is a colourless crystalline water-soluble vitamin found especially in citrus fruits and green vegetables. Most organisms synthesize it from glucose but man and other primates and various other species must obtain it from Worldwide Short Film Festival Screens ‘Driving Lessons’ their diet. It is required for the maintenance of healthy connective tissue; deficiency leads to scurvy. Vitamin C TEHRAN (IFILM) -- Iranian film en-day event with a unique con- worldwide, with three main com- in cinemas all around the world, is readily destroyed by heat and light. 108 solar years ago, on this day in 191l AD, in a blatant act of violation of Iran’s sovereignty, the British set up ‘Driving Lessons’ is participating cept – a transnational film festival ponents: shnit PLAYGROUNDS, and our shnit FINALE awards cer- a joint force of English and Indian troops to police the southern parts of Iran and provide to security to colonial at the underway edition of Switzer- simultaneously taking place in taking place in all of our PLAY- emony in New York,” the event’s trade, at the expense of the weak Qajarid government of Iran, which had already succumbed to the pressure of land-based Shnit Worldwide Short multiple cities on five continents GROUND cities, shnit SHORTS, website reads. Tsarist Russia to set up a similar force of Qazzaqs in the northern parts. Even the parliament voted against the Film Festival. British measures, it was powerless in the face of the domineering colonialist powers. Marzieh Riahi’s ‘Driving Les- 108 solar years ago, on this day in 1911 AD, the prominent scholar, Ayatollah Mullah Ali Zanjani passed sons’ is representing Iran at the away. A student of Shaikh Mohammad Taqi (author of “Hidayat-ol-Mustarshidin”), and contemporary of 17th edition of the Swiss event. the celebrated Ayatollah Shaikh Morteza Ansari Dezfuli, he in turn groomed outstanding ulema such as Mirza The film is about Bahareh who Habibollah Rashti. He strove to solve the problems of people and was a prolific author as well. Among his must have her traditional chauvinis- books, mention could be made of an exegesis of the holy Qur’an, and “Jawame’ al-Usoul”. tic husband accompany her during 67 solar years ago, on this day in 1952 AD, Iranian foreign minister, Dr. Hussein Fatemi, announced severance driving lessons so that she and her of political ties with Britain. This decision was made by Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq after a vote instructor are not left together with- from the parliament. Dr Fatemi summoned the British Charge D’ Affaires and pointed out that the reason out a third party’s presence. behind the severance of ties with Britain has been the indifference of the British regime toward the Iranian ‘Driving Lessons’ is starring Lin- nation’s demands for fulfillment of the people’s rights in relation to nationalization of Iran’s oil industry. da Kiani, Alireza Sanifar, Salar 101 solar years ago, on this day in 1918 AD, the last phase of World War I started with the attacks of the allied Khamseh, and Sanaz Mesbah. forces in northwestern Europe. The German forces initially strongly resisted the offensive, but the Allied forces The film has grabbed several eventually prevailed, thus ending World War I in November 1918 after four years of war. global prizes, including a Jury Prize 63 solar years ago, on this day in 1956 AD, the premiers of France, Britain, and the Zionist regime of Israel, at the 18th Topaz Film Festival by in a meeting behind closed doors in France, hatched the plot to attack Egypt. After the Egyptian President, Women in Film Dallas in the U.S., Jamal Abdun-Nasser, announced the nationalization of Suez Canal in the year 1956, France and Britain were intent on occupying this Canal due to losing their illegitimate interests in the region. Moreover, the illegal the Best Film award at the 22nd Zionist entity called Israel, which considered Egypt as its main enemy, intended to use this opportunity to deal Religion Today Film Festival in It- a major blow against this leading Arab country. A week after the secret meeting of French, British, and Israeli aly, the Best Short Drama Award at regime premiers, the armies of these states attacked Egypt. But, during this offensive, the invaders failed to the 2019 “I Will Tell” internation- reach their goals. al film festival in the UK and the 44 solar years ago, on this day in 1975 AD, British historian, Arnold Toynbee, died at the age of 86. His Best Short Film Award at the 2019 12-volume analysis of the rise and fall of civilizations, titled “A Study of History”, took 27 years to complete, Golden Apricot Yerevan Interna- and is a synthesis of world history, based on universal rhythms of rise, flowering and decline, which examined tional Film Festival in Armenia. history from a global perspective. After initially supporting the Zionist movement at the turn of the 20th The short film also attended sev- century, he gradually changed his outlook and by 1950, two years after the illegitimate birth of Israel, was a eral global events, including the strong opponent of the Zionist entity, and supported the Arab cause. 40 solar years ago, on this day in 1979 AD, the US regime, despite warnings from the provisional in Finland, revolutionary government of Iran, allowed the deposed Shah to come to New York – on the excuse of the Cartagena Film Festival in Co- medical treatment – a provocative move by the Americans that led revolutionary students to take over the lombia, the Tribeca Film Festival in US embassy in Tehran, which was violating diplomatic norm by serving as an espionage den for Washington the U.S., and the Edmonton Inter- in the region. national Film Festival in Canada. The Association of Iranian Academic Book Publishers participated in the 71st‎‎ Frankfurt International The Shnit Worldwide Short Film Book Fair (FBF), which started on October 16 and wrapped up on Sunday. Courtesy: IRIB English Radio – http://parstoday.com/en) Festival is “an exceptional elev- Courtesy of Mehr News Agency