World renowned Iranian films in town
Celebrating the 39th Iran Islamic Revolution, Iran Cultural Centre Colombo presents Iran Film Festival with a number of cinematic creations from the world renowned Iranian cinema this week.
A Cube of Sugar
Opened on February 10, the festival will continue till February 14 at National Film Corporation cinema hall daily with screenings in the evening.
Award winning 2014 Iranian war drama movie ‘Track 143’ directed by Narges Abyar will be screened at 3.30 pm, today February 11.
The film title refers to an Iranian trench in Chazabeh region where the dead body of a soldier is found. ‘Track 143’ is an adaptation of Abyar’s novel titled ‘The Third Eye’. The film highlights the considerable role of women in the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-1988. The film centres around Olfat, a woman waiting for her son who has been missing in Pre-Operation Valfajr in the Iran-Iraq War.
Olfat is raising her children in hardship. She has one daughter and one son called Yonos who works in the Kerman copper mine. One day, she finds a note at home with this massage “My friends and I are going to enter the war as soldiers”. After reading this note, Olfat and his friend’s parents get worried about their sons. When operation Valfajr failed, they received news about Yonos’s friend. Olfat is waiting for her son too. As she finds out that the Iraqi radio announces the Iranian captives’ names, she ties a radio on her back and carries it everywhere.
‘Track 143’ won the Crystal Simorgh award for Audience Favorite Film at the 32nd Fajr International Film Festival.
Seyyed Reza Mir-Karimi’s drama movie ‘A Cube of Sugar’ (Yek Habe Ghand), the Iranian entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards will be screened at 6.30 pm today, Feb 11.
The story takes place in an old house in an old city in Iran. Because of the wedding of the youngest sister, Pasandide, all of her sisters come to their old house to help their mother.
‘The Sweet Taste of Imagination’ (Tame Shirin Khial), drama film directed by Kamal Tabrizi and produced by Mohammad-Ali Hossein-Nezhad revolves around an imaginative dreamer Garoos , a professor in a university who falls in love with a student who studies under him. The love affair is endangered when a business competitor sets Garoos up for unethical behaviour. The film will be screened at 6.30 pm on Feb 12.
Kiumars Pourahmad’s ‘Where Are My Shoes?’ revolving arounda an old man, Habib who starts losing his memory to the point of Alzheimer’s after his wife and daughter lose touch with him, will be screened 6.30 pm on Feb 13.
‘Where Are My Shoes?’ is an adaptation of the American author Lisa Genova’s debut novel ‘Still Alice’.
The final film of the Iran Film Festival, ‘The Painting Pool’, a 2013 drama directed by Maziar Miri will be screened at 6.30 pm on Feb 14.
This 2013 film revolves around interpersonal dynamics between a set of mentally challenged parents and their child.
Maryam and Reza are different from other people, it’s not just a simple difference, but a very big difference. They must try to prove to others that they have solved the big difference with the miracle of love …
Painting pool
The Sweet taste of Imagination
Track 143
Track 143
Where Are My Shoes