DOCUMENTARIES
COPPER NOTES OF A WISH by Reza FARAHMAND
Line Up 2019
Original Title: Nothay-e- Mesi Yek Arezu
Type: Feature Documentary l Social l Children Women Issue l War
Running Time:90 min
Aspect Ratio: 16.9
Resolution: 1920/ 10.80
Original version: Arabic
Subtitled in English
Screening format: DCP, Blu-Ray
Sound: 5.1
Year: 2019
Remarkable , daring and highly original film about Children Power in bringing happiness and changes into the life After the War .
Logline : Childhood and happiness are great and sacred concepts. Even war, cannot destroy these profound and holy words.
To scrape money together for the concert, Malook and some friends pull the copper lines out of the walls of empty buildings that are riddled with bullets and rockets. In one of the most moving scenes, the children write apologies for their theft on the walls, should the people who have fled ever return. A spark of hope remains for the children and for us, too, as long as such acts and art – songs and wall paintings – survive.
ANTICLOCKWISE by Jalal VAFAEI
Original Title: Khalaf-e- aghrabehaye saat
English Title :Anticlockwise
Remarkable, daring and highly original film 3 generation of grandfather, father, grandson, in a regime
Running Time: 48 min
Aspect Ratio: 16.9
Resolution: 1920/ 10.80
Original version: Persian (Farsi)
Subtitled in English
Screening format: DCP, Blu-Ray
Sound: 5.1
Year: 2019
Anticlockwise is about 3 generation of grandfather, father, grandson, in a dictatorship regime. Grandfather has been a revolutionary but has changed his believes and entrusted anymore to the regime after a decade. The son is completely against the regime and has been prisoner for years but grandson is a Rapper! The whole family are in wet blanket and frustrated, but the Rap songs are talking about Hope, happiness and future.
des Hirondelles (Swallows) by Caroline Emery
Original Title: Des Hirondelles
Type: Documentary l Social l Children l Women Issue l Rape
Running Time: 40 min
Flat : 1.85
Aspect Ratio: 1.33 ( the projectionist had to put wipe on left and right)
Resolution: 2K 1920/ 1080
Original version: French – Farsi
Subtitled in English & French
Screening format: DCP, Blu-Ray
Sound: 5.1
Year: 2019
Remarkable , daring and highly original film about Children in Rape.
Synopsis in English :
Sparrows is Two story of two rapes! , one in Iran one in France, are echoing each other.Two little girls had to face alone a male violence of which they knew nothing.
Nasreen in Tehran : When she was thirteen, she was married in spite of her reluctance to a twenty years older man whom she did not want. She tells her resistance to this marriage, her wedding night, the birth of her two children and how she never stopped thinking leaving her husband until the day she succeeded. In 1972, the year Nasreen was born, Caroline was six years old.
Caroline in Paris.In the midst of a happy childhood, if one can say childhood is a happy moment in life, when she was eight, Caroline was raped by a great uncle. She tells about her childhood, her rape and how she knew right away that she would not keep the secret as her great uncle asked her to, and about the visons and nightmares that ensued.
This documentary summons the memories and the ghosts of a common suffering, intertwining the two stories each one in an urban scenery where the representations of sexuality are totally opposed, with filmed sequences, photos and paintings made by Caroline and inspired by what she saw in Iran, and by her nightmares and her memories.
In spite of these tragedies, life goes on for Nasreen and Caroline, who cling to life’s little moments of happiness. With this film, they break the silence and hope to get other girls to do the same.
WOMEN WITH GUNPOWDER EARRING by Reza FARAHMAND
Line Up 2018
Original Title: Zanani Ba Gushvarehaye Baruti
Type: Feature Documentary l Social l Women Issue l War
Running Time: 77 min
Aspect Ratio: 16.9
Resolution: 1920/ 10.80
Original version: Arabic
Subtitled in English
Screening format: DCP, Blu-Ray
Sound: 5.1
Year: DEC 2017
Noor Al Helli is an Iraqi female journalist who goes to the ISIS war zones to report and film the events of ISIS’s cracked up . in confronting an ISIS family she is drawn to the camps of ISIS men’s wives and children for the first time.Close encounter with these families marks a series of incidences for her.Women With Gunpowder Earring is a daring and highly original film about Women’s Power in bringing changes into the life.
The Invincible Diplomacy of Mr Naderi by Behtash SANAEEHA & Maryam MOGHADAM
NEW FILM – LINE UP 2018
Original Title : Diplomasi Shekast Napazir Mr Naderi
Type : Long Documentary
Running Time: 89 min
Original version: Persian
Subtitled in English
Screening format: DCP, Blu-Ray
Sound: stereo
Ratio: 16:9
Year: 2018
A warm and fascinating portrait of jack-of-all-trades Naderi, who is trying to make peace between the United States and Iran
by presenting a Persian carpet of peace illustrating the American presidents.
LIKE A WOMAN
Original Title : Maesle Yek Zan
Type : Feature Documentary / Political
Year: Completed Nov 2016( 2014 – Dec 2016 .. 2 years shooting )
Running Time: 73 min
Resolution:25
Original version: Persian
Subtitled in English
Screening format: DCP, Blu-Ray
Sound: Surround 5.1
Ratio: 16:9
Faezeh Hahsemi daughter of the Iran’s powerful president, Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani. is the most news making woman in the Islamic republic’s history. She was at first, only, known as the courageous daughter of the Iran’s powerful president, Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani. But quickly she became an independent character and turned into one of the most influential individuals in the world of politics in Iran with her speeches about Baha’i in Iran and also with her protests against the election in Ahmadi Nejhad Time. Like A Woman is about Faezeh and her believes and her private life as daughter of Islamic President.