Sri Lankan film goers will get the opportunity of viewing five films.
directed by world renowned Iranian woman director. Mrs. Pouran Derakhshandeh when the Iranian Film Week gets underway in Colombo Tomorrow, 7 February.
The Film Week has been organized to commemorate the 32nd Anniversary of the Islamic Revolution by the Cultural Section of the Embassy of Iran in collaboration with the National Film Corporation (NFC) Iranian Film Week.
The films are to be screened at the NFC Cinema Hall, Baudhaloka Mawatha, Colombo7. The films are open to the public and will be screened free of charge except on the opening day when it will be for invitees only.
The films that are to be screened are: Love without Frontier- February 7 (Invitees only), Children of Eternity (February 8), Twenty (February 9), Wet Dreams (February 10) and - Lost Time (February 11)
Ms. Derakshandeh is the first woman who started to direct after the Islamic revolution in the late 1970s and her films deal with contemporary topics. She has won many international awards for her movies. Love without Frontier is the first-ever Iranian film made in Hollywood. It tells the story of children of mixed Iranian –American parentage and the problems that they face.
‘ Twenty’ is the story of a reception hall owner. There are twenty days remaining before Mr. Soleimani closes his reception hall. The hall hosts mainly mourning receptions (and occasionally a wedding), and the sorrow they invariably bring has drained the owner so much that his psychologist has recommended closing down his business immediately. It’s a subtle, psychological drama, masterfully walking the line between comedy and tragedy.
Wet Dreams is the story of a sixteen-year-old Arash, preoccupied with his parents’ divorce and friends’ way of living, decides to break free from his mother’s domination by taking refuge in his father’s house.
In Lost Time, ten years after their married life, Dr, Shakibeh Moayed, an experienced and skilled obstetrician, and her husband, a textile designer, are deprived of the joy of having children. As a last resort to save their marriage, Dr. Moayed adopts an orphan girl, but her husband finds it impossible to accept the child as a member of his family. |
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