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Feb 22-26, 1999 / Esfand 3-7,1377

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* Film: Winner of Berlin film festival
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Literature: Interview with Moshiri
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Film: Iran's Oscar-hopeful director wins home film award
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Literature: Golshiri to get German rights award
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Film: Fajr Film Festival awards
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Film: Oscar nomination helps Iran movies
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Book: Winners of Iran's book awards

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* New books: Farmanfarma

Tehran, (Hamshahri) - This week's book reviews in Hamshahri include one about the life and time of Abdol-Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma ... IMAGE TEXT IN PERSIAN

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* Winner of Berlin film festival

Tehran (Iran daily) - Kamal Tabrizi's "Mehr-e Maadar" (Mother's love) has won the best film award from a children's film festival in Berlin ... IMAGE TEXT IN PERSIAN

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* Ancient gold chalice to go on display

Tehran (Iran daily) - A 3,200-year-old gold chalice, one of the many spectacular finds from the Hassanlou region, will go on public display for the first time beginning March 3 ... IMAGE TEXT IN PERSIAN

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* 'The Apple': Daughters of Darkness Who Dream of the Light

February 19, 1999 (The New York Times) - "The Apple" was shown as part of last year's New York Film Festival. Following are excerpts from Lawrence Van Gelder's review, which appeared in The New York Times on Sept. 30. The film opens Friday in Manhattan. Potent symbolism linked to a bizarre story rooted in fact, set in Iran and laden with political, social and generational overtones makes "The Apple" one of the more intriguingly resonant features of the 36th New York Film Festival ... FULL TEXT

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* Majidi: American films should be banned

Tehran (Iran daily) - Majid Majidi, whose film "Children of Heaven" is currently playing in U.S. theaters and been nominated for an Oscar, told Variety magazine that he supports Iran's ban on the showing of American films. He said this will help the domestic film industry ... FULL TEXT

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* Iranian film fest gets Oscar boost

18-FEB-99 TEHRAN, Iran (Variety/Reuters) - There was good news and some bad vibes at the 17th Fajr International Film Festival, Iran's window on the world that ran Feb. 1-10. Coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the country's Islamic revolution, it marked a time to look back at the unexpected flowering of post-revolutionary cinema and take stock of future prospects ... FULL TEXT

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* Interview with Moshiri

Tehran (Iran daily) - Iran's only newspaper for the blind has done an extensive interview with poet Fereydoun Moshiri ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

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* Iran's Oscar-hopeful director wins home film award

February 10, 1999, TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) -- A film by Majid Majidi, the man who directed the first Iranian film to be nominated for an Oscar, has won the top prize at Iran's premier film festival, newspapers reported Wednesday. "The Color of God," the story of a blind boy's difficult relationship with his father, won the prize as the best film in Tehran international Fajr film festival's competition section on Tuesday, the newspapers said ... FULL TEXT

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* Golshiri to get German rights award

Tehran (Iran daily) - Author Hooshang Golshiri and the Iranian writers guild have been named the recipients of an award in Germany for their defense of freedom of expression ... IMAGE TEXT IN PERSIAN

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* Fajr Film Festival awards

Tehran (Iran daily) - Tehran's Fajr Film Festival has ended with one of the Best Film awards going to Rasool Qolipour's "Hiva" ... IMAGE TEXT IN PERSIAN

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* Oscar nomination helps Iran movies

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Although Iranian films have won awards at international festivals for years, Tuesday's Oscar nomination for ``Children of Heaven' is a first for a movie from the Islamic Republic. Despite strict government rules for filmmakers, Iranian films have won praise for their frank portrayal of social issues in Iran's restrictive society ... FULL TEXT

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* Winners of Iran's book awards

Tehran (Hamshahri) - Compilers of a children's encyclopedia have won Iran's top book award ... IMAGE TEXT IN PERSIAN


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