Tehran – The closing ceremony of the 22nd Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival took place on July 20th, with the documentary “Put Your Soul and Walk on Walk on Walk” being awarded during the ongoing Israeli military action.
Iranian director Amir Nadeli competed in the panoramic competition section of the region where ju-choice was ju-choice, and “get your soul and walk,” directed by Sepide Falsi, Isna reported.
The 112-minute French/Palestinian film is the filmmaker’s response to the ongoing massacre of Palestinians. Falsi believes that a miracle happened when he met Fatima Hassona. She became eyes in Gaza and resisted while recording the war, and Falsi became a connection between her and the world from her “Gaza Prison” as she named it.
They kept this life for almost a year. The sound and pixel bits they exchanged became a movie. Fatima’s murder on April 16th changes its meaning forever with an Israeli attack on her home.
At the opening ceremony of the festival on July 13th, Nadeli was awarded the Parakhanov Tara Award, one of Golden Apricot’s highest honors, for her outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema.
Parajanov’s Thaler is named after the artist Sergei Parajanov. When Soviet filmmaker and screenwriter Parakhanov was imprisoned in 1976, he carved his figures with his claws on the aluminum lids of milk bottles, calling them “talahs.”
Today they are Yerevan, S. I’m at the Paradjanov Museum. The award is a silver replica of one of these unique coins and is presented annually at the Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival.
Nadeli, 78-year-old pioneering post-revolution Iranian cinema, is a leading figure in the so-called “second wave” along with Abbas Kiarostami and Majid Majidi.
As a filmmaker, he inspired him from Henri Cartier Bresson’s photography of urban experiences and everyday life, as well as the aesthetics of Italian neorealist films.
Nadeli aims to give fundamental driving forces to the birth of Iranian cinema in the 1970s and 1980s, with several masterpieces aiming to mark the history of cinema.
Born in the southern city of Abadan, Nadeli made her directorial debut in 1971 with “Goodbye Friend” and soon became one of the most famous figures in the film industry.
He took part in the international spotlight with “Tangsir” (1974). “The Runner” (1985) and “Water, Wind, Soil” (1989) both won the Golden Montgolfiere at the Three Continents Festival in Nantes. “The Runner” is considered by many critics to be one of the most influential films of the past quarter century.
The prominent director moved to the United States in the mid-80s, won the Roberto Rossellini Critics Award at the 2005 Rome Film Festival, and won “Vegas: Based on a True Story,” which premiered in a competition in Venice in 2008.
He was named Rockefeller Film and Video Fellow in 1997 and served as an instructor at Columbia University, the University of Las Vegas and the Visual Arts School in New York. His American films premiered in the Film Institute of Lincoln Center/New Director/New Film Series, Venice, Cannes, Tribeca and Sundance FF.
His Japanese set, “The Cut,” is a homage to the Yakuza (crime syndicate) films, opening the Venice Horizons section in 2011.
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