Posts Tagged ‘Persian’

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    World Cinema coming home to us
    Seems times are changing at last – for the better, and fast. After all these years of scouring the film festivals and pirated DVD shops (unless we have deep pockets to splurge on the highly-priced original DVDs of foreign films), it seems 2008 is bringing some happy tidings for us, the lovers of world cinema (that is, anything that comes from outside the country...
    by Runumi G at January 25th, 2008 at 01:01 am
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    Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles 2008 Call for Entries
    IFFLA 2008 Announces Call for Entries The Sixth Annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) seeks narrative, documentary, music videos, experimental, children’s and animated films of any length and format. IFFLA will run April 22-27, 2008 at ArcLight Hollywood, a state-of-the-art facility located in the heart of Los Angeles. Jury and Audience Choice Prizes...
    by Vijay at September 17th, 2007 at 11:09 pm
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    Neville Tuli’s ‘vision’ about Cinefan
    Recently I had interviewed Neville Tuli, the founder chairman of the Osian’s Connoisseurs of Art, which organizes the Osian’s Cinefan Festival of Asian (& Arab – from this year) Cinema, in New Delhi. While some parts of the interview have been carried in my paper Deccan Herald, I am reproducing the whole text of the interview for PFC readers, for...
    by Runumi G at August 27th, 2007 at 08:08 am
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    Turtles Can Fly – Unforgettable Cinema
    Iranian filmmakers for long have thrived on their unmatched ability to reflect upon their times through the eyes of their children. Majidi is perhaps the finest examples of exploring the issue through the viewpoint of the children who live it, because they are perhaps the only ones who see the world for what it is. They don’t judge, they observe. They see it, and...
    by Vijay at June 11th, 2007 at 03:06 pm
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    For cinephiles in Mumbai: National Film Circle
    Received from Worldwide Film Distribution yahoogroup… Please spread the word! Let me take this opportunity to introduce you about me and social activities of our organization. … I am working with a government organization, one of the most important & entertainment department called “NATIONAL FILM CIRCLE” is given to me and I am looking for...
    by striker at April 26th, 2007 at 04:04 pm
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    INTERVIEW WITH BAHMAN GHOBADI. Exclusive for PFC.
    [oz note: bumped to Exclusive] Fascinating FARSI films! How I love them. Be it Iron Island [ Mohammad Rasoulof ] or The Day I Became A Woman [ Marziyeh Meshkini ], Secret Ballot [ Babak Payami ] or Offside [ Jafar Panahi ], Father[ Majid Majidi ] or Beneath the Skin of the City[ Rakshan Bani Etemad ] they have all succeeded in enthralling us with their tales, the way they...
    by Krsn Kavita Kasturi at April 15th, 2007 at 05:04 pm
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