The 3rd annual Iranian Film Festival has announced its 2013 line-up ahead of its opening later this month.
The three-day festival kicks off on Friday 25 October 2013 with the 2012 drama, Snow on Pines (Barf roo-ye kajha) which scored a Best Actress award for star Mahnaz Afshar and Best Film and Best Script awards for Director Payman Maadi at the 2013 Iranian Film Critics Guild Awards.
Highlights of the Festival also include the screening of the latest films from three big names in Iranian cinema – Jafar Panahi’s, Closed Curtain (winner of the Berlinale Silver Bear); Bahman Ghobadi’s Rhino Season; the Australian premiere of Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s controversial The Gardener; and a great treat with the classic first film from the great film director Behram Beza’i – the pre-revolutionary Downpour (1972). The newly restored print comes from Martin Scorcese’s World Cinema Foundation.
The Festival will screen seven films in total, offering only one screening of each at the Mercury Cinema. Films to be presented during the Festival are:
- Snow on Pines (Barf roo-ye kajha) on 25 October at 7pm
- Rhino Season (Fasle kargadan) on 26 October at 3pm
- Downpour (Ragbar) on 26 October at 6pm
- Parviz (Parviz) on 26 October at 8:30pm
- The Gardener (Baghban) on 27 October at 2:15pm
- Closed Curtain (Pardé) on 27 October at 5pm
- Meeting Leila (Ashnaee ba Leila) on 27 October 7:15pm
Each film is classified 18+. Both Festival passes and individual tickets are available from the Mercury Cinema box office by phoning (08) 8410 1934.
Iranian Film Festival
NOTE: All films are 18+
When: 25-27 October 2013
Where: Mercury Cinema, 13 Morphett Street, Adelaide (Lion Arts Centre complex)
Tickets: Available from the Mercury Cinema box office on (08) 8410 1934.
Photo: IFF opening night film, Snow on Pines (Barf roo-ye kajha)
More News
