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Friday
March 10, 2000
* Kiarostami to get Kurosawa Award
Thursday, March 9, 2000 (Press release) -- Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami
will receive this year's Akira Kurosawa Award, presented for lifetime achievement
by the San Francisco International Film Festival. Kiarostami, 59, will
come to San Francisco from Tehran for the award ceremony and the U.S. premiere
of his latest film, ``The Wind Will Carry Us,'' on April 30 at the AMC
Kabuki Theatres >>>
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* Hatami-Kia
Tehran (Iran daily) - A review of Ebrahim Hatami-kia's latest film "Ruban-e
qermez" (PDF file) >>>
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* Mehran-Far
Tehran (Asr-e Azadegan) - Farhad Mehran-Far has won several international
awards for his short films. He is also making the transtion to feature
films. An interview >>>
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Thursday
March 9, 2000
* Hamid Mossadegh
Tehran (Asr-e Azadegan) - Hamid Mossadegh's poems recorded in his own
voice has gone on sale, months after the first anniversary of his death
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* More awards
Tehran (Asr-e Azadegan) - Different organizations have picked their
own best films in the Fajr film festival >>>
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* Documents
Tehran (Hamshahri) - Fifty-thousand documents at Golestan palace have
been organized, including from "Pahlavi I" and "Pahlavi
II" eras (new titles?) >>>
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Wednesday
March 8 2000
* Cannes
Tehran (Mosharekat) - Jafar Panahi's "Daayereh"
does not have a screening permit. But there's talk of entering it in the
Cannes film festival. Impossible? >>>
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* Kimiaie
Tehran (Mosharekat) - Masoud Kimiaie's latest
film "Eteraz" has caused quite a stirr. What's all the fuss about?
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* Caves
Tehran (Hamshahri) - "Astonishing" (Pre-historic?)
caves near Kashan are being studied by a team of experts for the first
time >>>
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Tuesday
March 7, 2000
* Kish
Tehran (Asr-e Azadehan) - Forty documentary films from the past 40 years
will be screened at the Kish film festival >>>
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* Welcome
Tehran (Asr-e Azadehan) - Kish documentary film festival a welcome development.
Commentary >>>
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* Tin man
Tehran (Asr-e Azadegan) - "Mard-e halabi" wins the top prize
in the students theater festival >>>
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Monday
March 6, 2000
* Return of the exiles
A new wave of Iranian film-makers is winning official suppor
By Sheila Whitaker
The Guardian (London)
March 4, 2000
Whether in obvious or less discernable ways, cinema is often a nation's
barometer. In Iran, where the national desire for reform and liberalisation
made itself resoundingly felt in the recent elections, last month's Fajr
film festival in Tehran opened its doors wide to outside influences, most
obviously in the retrospectives of two highly political filmmakers, Constantin
Costa -Gavras and Francesco Rosi, both of whom attended.
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* 27 years
Tehran (Asr-e Azadehan) - Novelist Mahmoud Dolatabadi has delivered
a speech at a university for the first time in 27 years >>>
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* Poetry
Tehran (Asr-e Azadehan) - Ahmad Reza Ahmadi has dedicated his latest
book of poetry to Manouchehr Yektaie "because he's kind."
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* Honor
Tehran (Hamshahri) - Thirty of the country's "top thinkers"
have been honored. Do you recognize any? >>>
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