Iranian Film Festival Zurich Für Ihr Hohes Engagement Für Die Filmstadt Zürich
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24 — 30 MAY 2018 IRANIAN FILM FESTIVAL Kino Kosmos ZURICH Lagerstrasse 104 8004 Zürich www.kosmos.ch . IRANIAN4 FILM FESTIVAL ZURICH PROGRAM WWW.IRANIANFILMFESTIVAL.CH TABLE OF CONTENTS HONORING MAHTAB KERAMATI 6 DARIUSH MEHRJUI 8 PAST WINNERS 9 IN COMPETITION MAJAN 10 ISRAFIL 11 WAITING FOR KIAROSTAMI 12 ALI AQA 13 WHEN I BECAME A BUTTERFLY 14 SEARING SUMMER 15 BRIDGE OF SLEEP 16 ANONYMITY 17 ASPHYXIA 18 PARIS TEHRAN 22 DOGS & FOOLS 23 KUPAL 24 OUT OF COMPETITION SUBDUED 25 A DYING KING 26 NO DATE, NO SIGNATURE 27 ALONE THROUGH IRAN 28 PANEL DISCUSSION PREJUDICES AND TRUST IN OUR WORLD 29 SPECIAL SCREENING MALARIA 30 JURY JURY MEMBERS 32/33 TEAM FILM FESTIVAL TEAM 34/35 COOPERATION 35 TIMETABLE 38/39 2 Liebe Gäste des Iranian Film Festival Zürich Es ist bereits das vierte Mal, dass das Iranische Film Festival dem Zürcher Publikum eine sorgfältig ausgewählte Kostprobe des iranischen Filmschaffens präsentiert. Das Festival ist aber mehr als ein Filmfest. Es gründet im Wunsch nach kultureller Verständigung und einem verstärkten Austausch zwischen der iranischen und der schweizerischen Kultur. Es bedient sich dafür der universellen Sprache des Films und schlägt damit eine Brücke zwischen den Kulturen. Die bisherige Entwicklung des Iranischen Film Festivals spricht eine deutliche Sprache und zeigt das Potenzial des Anlasses. Die von Jahr zu Jahr steigenden Besuchszahlen belegen das Interesse der Zürcherinnen und Zürcher am iranischen Film und an der iranischen Kultur. Auch örtlich bleibt das Festival am Puls der Kinostadt Zürich. Nach dem Stüssihof und dem Houdini in den Vorjahren findet es dieses Jahr im neuen Kosmos an der Europaallee statt. Die Filmauswahl für die diesjährige Austragung ist erneut vielversprechend. Der gute Draht der Macherinnen und Macher des Festivals direkt zu den iranischen Filmschaffenden und die grosse Erfahrung der Programmkommission zahlen sich aus, zugunsten des Publikums hier in Zürich. Ich danke den Organisatorinnen und Organisatoren des Iranian Film Festival Zurich für ihr hohes Engagement für die Filmstadt Zürich. Ich wünsche dem Festival für seine vierte Austragung viel Erfolg und Ihnen, liebe Gäste, viel Vergnügen und spannende Einblicke in das iranische Filmschaffen. Corine Mauch, Stadtpräsidentin 3 WILLKOMMEN WELCOME BIENVENUE خوش آمدید Yadolah Dodge Artistic & Managing Director, IFFZ The Iranian Film Festival in Zurich (IFFZ) aims These films have been selected from interna- to fill the cultural gap between Iranians and tional film festivals such as Berlinale, Busan, Swiss as well as the many other nationalities Cannes, Venice, Fajr Film Festival and many living in Switzerland. Each year the festival others. presents a selection of the best contempo- rary feature films and documentaries from The festival opens with «Majan», in presence all generations of Iranian filmmakers. The of the actress Mahtab Keramati, appointed IFFZ understands itself as a platform for the UNICEF National Ambassador of Iran in 2006. presentation of different facets of the Iranian culture and its traditions. It aims at building The festival also pays homage to Levon Haftvon, a bridge between different cultures by the the Iranian actor - director who passed away in means of the universal language of art - and March 2018, by showing his last film «Kupal». especially the 7th art, cinema. The IFFZ is a unique cultural event with 17 art The 2018 edition of the Iranian Film Festival features and documentaries in the heart of is dedicated to films on issues of family prob- Zurich. The films are subtitled in English. lems and love, and matters related to women in Iran and around the globe such as sacrifice, love and honor. The festival presents out- standing films made between 2016 and 2018 by Iranian filmmakers from anywhere in the world and films about Iran from filmmakers of other nations. Award Ceremony Film Please save the date on Wednesday, May 30, 2018 in Kosmos Kino 1 for the closing film No Date No Signature, winner of Best Director, and Best actor of the Venice Film Festival 2017. 4 HONORING Homage and Honorary Golden Cylinder for MAHTAB KERAMATI 5 HONORING MAHTAB KERAMATI The UNICEF National Ambassador Mahtab Head Of International Jury Keramati was born in Tehran, Iran in 1970. – 15th Dhaka International Film Festival 2016 She was taking acting courses when she was – Batumi International Arthouse Film Festival chosen for the role of Helen in The Men of 2016 (BIAFF) Angelos, which won her national recognition. – Festival Arbitration of AIDS She later went on to appear in films such as – Khorshid Independent Short Film Festival Mummy III and Rain Man for which she was – 26th International Children & nominated for a Fajr International Film Festival Young Adults Film 2013 Crystal Simorgh. She then appeared in dramas – 30th International Children & such as Saint Mary and Crimson Soiland Young Adults Film(UNICEF section) 2017 the films Hell, Purgatory, Heaven, There Are – New Look 34th Fajr Film Festival Things You Don‘t Know, Alzheimer and The – Songhour Local Photo Festival Private Life of Mr. and Mrs. M.. She won a Crystal Simorgh for Best Actress in a Sup- porting Role for Twenty. In 2015 winner Best Actor Award Imagineindia Film Festival. She was also featured in Dhaka Film Festival Jury. 6 HONORING Filmography 2007: Hidden Sense ( Hess – e Penhan ) 2011: Absolutely Tame Is a Horse 2007: Reward of Silence ( Padashe Sokoot ) (Asb Heyvane Najibist) 2007: Adam 2012: The Private Life of Mr. & Mrs. M 2008: The Green Fire ( Atash – e – Sabz ) (Zendeghie Khosoosi Agha va Khanoom) 2008: Shirin 2012: Azar 2009: The Uncertainty ( Tardid) 2012: Resurrection ( Rastakhiz) 2009: Women are Angels (Zanha Freshtehand) 2013: Fourth Child ( Farzande Chaharom) 2009: Hell , Purgatory , Paradise 2014: Inadvertent ( Na’khaasteh) (Doozakh , Barzakh , Behesht) 2014: Ghosts ( Ashbah ) 2009: Twenty (Bist) 2014: Jamehdaran 2010: Day and Night (Shabane Rooz) 2014: Arghavan 2010: Creed (Adamkosh) 2015: Mazar – e – Sharif 2011: Alzheimer 2015: Ice Age ( Asr e Yakhbandan ) 2011: There Are Things You Don’t Know 2016: August ( Mordad ) (Chizhaei Hast Ke Nemidani) 2017: Majan 7 HONORING DARIUSH MEHRJUI Life Dariush Mehrjui, born on 8 December 1939 Iran. His film The Pear Tree (1999) has been in Tehran, is an Iranian director, screenwriter, hailed as the apotheosis of the director‘s producer, film editor and a member of the examination of the Iranian bourgeoisie. Iranian Academy of the Arts. Since his film The Cow in 1969, Mehrjui, Mehrjui was a founding member of the Irani- along with Nasser Taqvai and Masoud Kimiai, an New Wave movement of the early 1970s. has been instrumental in paving the way for His second film, Gaav, is considered to be the Iranian cinematic renaissance, so called the first film of this movement, which also the „Iranian New Wave.“ included Masoud Kimiai and Nasser Taqvai. Most of his films are inspired by literature and Mehrjui has received 49 national and internati- adapted from Iranian and foreign novels and onal awards including: plays. Modern Iranian cinema begins with Dariush Mehrjui. Mehrjui introduced realism, symbolism, and the sensibilities of art cinema. His films have some resemblance with those Awards of Rosselini, De Sica and Satyajit Ray, but he – Golden Seashell, San Sebastián also added something distinctively Iranian, International Film Festival 1993. in the process starting one of the greatest – Silver Hugo, Chicago International modern film waves. The one constant in Film Festival 1998. Mehrjui‘s work has been his attention to the – Crystal Simorgh, Fajr Film Festival 2004. discontents of contemporary, primarily urban, – Honory Golden Cyrus Cylinder 2017, IFFZ 8 AWARDS PAST WINNERS Reza Dormishian Behnam Behzadi Born in 1981 in Tehran, Reza Dormishian has Behnam Behzadi was born in 1972 in Boro- studied English Language and then he was ujen, Iran and obtained a diploma in cinema involved in film journalism. He was an as- from the faculty of “Seda & Cima” in Tehran sistant to some prestigious Iranian filmmakers in1995. Over the past few years he’s written like Dariush Mehrjui and Alireza Davoudnejad scripts, worked in editing and collaborated and he’s also been credited as a scriptwriter with various scriptwriters including Bahman for some films and TV productions. Reza Ghobadi with whom he was co-script writer Dormishian started making short films since for the film ‘Nive mang/Half Moon’. 2002 and Hatred is his first feature film, fully Born in 1972, Behnam Behzadi graduated produced independently in Istanbul. in film-making in 1997. After making some programs for TV, his first short film RETALIA- TION gained an international success, winning the second prize of FIPA 2000 in France. Golden Cyrus Cylinder Golden Cyrus Cylinder for for Best Director Best Director for the feature film for the feature film «Lantouri», 2016 «Inversion», 2017 9 IN COMPETITION English title: Majan Genre: Fiction, Drama Country and year of production: Iran, 2017 Length: 95 min Language: Farsi Subtitles: English European premiere Screenplay: Leila Larijani MAJAN Director of Photography: ماجان Mohammad Aladpoosh Editor: Nazanin Mofkham RAHMAN SEIFI AZAD Sound: Saeed Bojnourdi Producer: Moloud and Hashem have an argument about the care of their Mohammad Mehdi Asgarpour son Ehsan, who is ill. Against the will of Moloud, Hashem has sent their son to a sanatorium. Moloud goes through an Cast: enormous crisis until Hashem decides to divorce her. Hashem Mahtab Keramati wants to remarry but the prospective second wife refuses Farhad Aslani Hashem because she is afraid of having an ill child, too. Sima Tirandaz Hashem gets more and more mentally unstable, to the point Babak Ansari that he loses his job. To get rid of his son Ehsan, he looks for Mohammad Mahdi Ahadi someone to kidnap him and to take him to a sanatorium. Erfan Barzin But then, something unexpected happens. Sara Mirayi Director Rahman Seifi Azad was born in 1972 in Tehran. Script writer of the film Story of Fairies, I am a Mother, Sleeplessness.