Tehran – The 8th Iranian Film Festival, held in Tokyo, will be held in Japan from August 8th to 10th, and will screen seven Iranian films with Japanese subtitles.
The three-day event, organized by the Cultural Centre of the Islamic Republic of Iran, by the Cultural Centre in Tokyo, will be held at Libra Hall, Minat City Gender Equality Centre, Irna reported.
The festival is open to the public, allowing audiences to experience Iranian culture through films. Film is a universal language that promotes dialogue between culture and nation.
The lineup includes “Zero Line”, “Gholamreza Takhti”, “Gholamreza Takhti”, “Bahram Tavakoli”, “Gholamreza Takhti”, “Behrouz Shoaybi”, “Leaf of Life” by Ebrahim Mokhtari, and “Amene’s Golden Blood” by Habib Ahmadzadeh.
Filmed in Iran, the Japanese violinist arborist’s music video “Cloudy Isfahan,” will be shown at the opening ceremony of the festival on August 8th, allowing audiences to enjoy beautiful views of the ancient city of Isfahan, paired with tsunami melody.
The Iranian-Japanese co-produced Zero Line is about a poet lost in words who meets a woman suffering from miscarriage at the equator. Two emotions intersect at zero latitude.
Produced in 2022, the 76-minute film is made in Dadaist style, a short-lived French movement that originated in Surrealism. Chance is an important element of Dadaist works. Literary examples are random selections and combinations of multiple words.
“On the Zero Line” was created by two directors, Ghaffarzadeh and Jinbo, from various regions of Iran and Japan. From the other side of the globe, they created fictional male and female characters, respectively, and traveled to Kenya, Africa, above the equator. There, they first experienced the story and wrote about the ending of their shared story.
“Gholamreza Takhti” is a 2019 biographer drama film about famous Iranian freestyle wrestler Gholamreza Takhti, from childhood to adults, his match and finally his death.
“No Pre-Appointment” tells the story of Iranian immigrants who were forced to return to their home country 30 years later after learning of the death of their estranged father. She rushes off from her job as a doctor in Berlin, Germany, and takes her young autistic son to her. She achieves a new understanding of humanity and death during a brief trip to Iran and meeting with her father’s friends.
“The Warden” is a 2019 mystery drama. Starring Navid Mohammadzadeh and Parisaz Izadyar. Set in Iran in 1967, Mohammazzade plays the main Nemato Jahed, a prison guard.
In “Leaf of Life,” the director is enthusiastically filming a documentary film about the cultivation and harvesting of saffron in a small town in northeastern Iran. He agreed to do this job to earn enough money to buy a house in Tehran. However, the prices of the real estate business are rising, and he is worried. Instead of focusing on the direction of his film, he spends time with his producers who are supposed to find his dream home. In fact, until the day he was said to have already bought a flat. The conditions for shooting are also not easy, due to the director’s request. Farmers, especially one elderly person, are reluctant.
“Tears of the Reedbed” covers the lifetime period of Martyr Ali Hashemi, and “Amene’s Golden Blood” is a documentary about the girl from Bucher.
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