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Cannes 2023 :: Killers of the Flower Moon :: Martin Scorsese’s Bitterest Crime Epic Martin Scorsese triumphs yet again. A story about greed, corruption, and the mottled soul of a country that was born from the belief that it belonged to anyone callous enough to take it.. |
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Berlinale 2023 :: Full Winners List This year’s jury, headed by Kristen Stewart, gave
the Golden Bear award to the French documentary “On the Adamant..” The Silver Bear for
Best Lead Performance notably went to child star Sofia Otero for “20,000 Species of Bees.”
Philippe Garrel's “The Plough” was.. |
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BAFTA 2023 :: ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’
Dominates BAFTA Awards With Seven Wins “All Quiet on the Western Front” dominated the BAFTA Awards in London on
Sunday night with a record-breaking seven wins for a film not in the English languag,
including for Best Director.. |
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Berlinale 2023 :: Golshifteh Farahani :: Talks Role Of
Art In Iran “In A Dictatorship Like
Iran, Art Is Essential, It’s Like Oxygen.” Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani, who is at the
Berlin Film Festival as a member of Kristen Stewart’s jury, has talked passionately about the
importance of art.. |
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SIFF 2023 :: Shirin Ebadi :: Until We Are Free
This is the amazing, at times harrowing,
simply astonishing story of a woman who would never give up, no matter the risks. The first
Muslim woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Shirin Ebadi has inspired millions around
the globe.. |
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IFFR 2023 Awards :: 'Le spectre de Boko Haram' and
'Endless Borders' are the victors Cyrielle Raingou’s documentary took home the Tiger Award, whilst Abbas
Amini’s feature won the VPRO Big Screen Award, as the Dutch gathering celebrated its in-
person comeback.. |
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Winners of the 2022 ‘Sepanta Awards’ :: 15th Annual
Iranian Film Festival This year, the
festival presented 50 films from Iran, USA, Italy, France, Luxembourg, Greece, UK, Canada,
Australia, and Denmark…, ranging from fiction, documentary, short, animation…. to the
music video.. |
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Opinion :: Will Venice Protests Help or Hurt filmmakers
in Iran? As the Venice Film Festival
celebrates Iranian cinema — with four Iranian films screening at the 79th Biennale — back
home in Tehran, Iranian filmmakers and artists are facing the harshest crackdown in
decades.. |
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Biennale Cinema 2022 :: Awards Ceremony
Official Awards of the 79th Venice Film Festival.
Announced by the five international Juries, chaired by Julianne Moore, during the Awards
Ceremony that was held on Saturday 10th September at 7:00 pm..
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Coming: 15th Annual Iranian Film Festival! : San
Francisco: Sep. 17-18 This year, the
festival presents 50 films from Iran, USA, Italy, France, Luxembourg, Greece, UK, Canada,
Australia, and Denmark…, ranging from fiction, documentary, short, animation…. to the
music video. We are happy and proud to.. |
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Malaria • Movie
review Winner of Grand Prix at
Warsaw International Film
Festival
theweereview.com
A traditional tale about societal pressures told through modern
technology.
Malaria by Iranian
director Parviz Shahbazi was awarded the Grand Prix at the 32nd Warsaw
International Film Festival, which drew to a close Saturday in the Polish
capital.
Malaria
concerns the relationship between young couple Hanna (Saghar Ghanaat) and Murry (Saed Soheili), who have eloped to escape the wrath of
Hanna’s abusive father.
After being turned away by multiple
establishments for being an unmarried couple, Hanna and Murry seek refuge at the
house of Azi (Azarakhsh Farahani),
an aspiring rock musician whose band the couple travels with on their journey to
live together.
The entire sequence is filmed from Hanna’s perspective, with the entire frame
surrounded in darkness with the exception of a horizontal jagged shaft of light
in the centre, with the only visual spatial cues provided by dialogue, namely
Azi’s intense dialogue with Hanna’s father and brother. This stylistic decision
is not only visually unique but also underlines the desperation of Hanna’s
situation as well as representing the constrictive nature of the social
restrictions she faces as a young woman in Iran. This last issue is further
reflected in the various obstacles that Hanna and Murry have to face throughout
the film. The couple are refused a hotel room because as an unmarried couple
they are not allowed to travel together or to share the same room without
authorisation, forcing them to sleep in a factory and later an abandoned
house.
These repressive societal factors, as well as
Hanna’s own familial pressures, are underlined in her climactic speech delivered
to her iPhone camera, which when placed within a wider context serves as a
tragic reflection of the restrictions placed on women in contemporary Iranian
society.
Shahbazi
combines this use of smartphone technology with a semi-improvisational style to
create a sense of intimacy that allows for a more naturalistic sense of
chemistry between the main actors, enabling Hanna and Murry’s relationship to
feel more realistic compared with a more traditional scripted approach.
However, this more freeform approach results in the film’s
narrative occasionally becoming sidetracked, with sequences involving the
characters joining in street celebrations, as well as a movie premiere that Azi
tries to gatecrash, undermining the urgency of the couple’s situation and
slowing down the pace of the film.
Despite this issue, Malaria serves as a technologically innovative
interpretation of a situation provoked by traditional religious
sensibilities.
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