Part one : a brunet man discovers that Gazale, his wife, is having an affair with a blond man. The husband kills the lover. At court, he is sentenced to death penalty. Gazale commits *******. Part two : the blond man is Gazale's husband. The brunet is her lover. The outcome is the same. Part three : Similar to the first situation up until the conflict between the two men. The b...
On May 18, 2017, the Busan International Film Festival’s Program Director Kim Jiseok died suddenly and unexpectedly from a heart attack while on a business trip to the Cannes Film Festival. In the face of his unexpected demise, his old friends and colleagues in the film industry recall what tormented him in his last days. The documentary Jiseok was planned to commemorate progra...
Post September 11, Mohsen Makhmalbaf tracks the children who do not attend school in the border villages between Iran and Afghanistan with his digital camera and questions why they are not being educated. He finds girls studying in UNICEF classes in one region. One of the girls is not willing to come out of her burqa despite the fact that she has run away from Afghanistan and t...
Former festival director Kim Dong-ho always mentioned that he wanted to make a film when he left his chair. After he stepped down from his festival director position that he was dedicated to for fifteen years, he started to make his first short Jury. In Ongoing Smile his long time friend Mohsen Makhmalbaf followed his trail as he goes down the road to his directorial debut. Oft...
第二届海南岛国际电影节将于2019年12月1日至2019年12月8日在海南省三亚市举行,为提升电影节的品牌竞争力,第二届海南岛国际电影节在延续第一届电影节活动的同时,将首次增设竞赛单元——“金椰奖”评奖。
Amir and Serikpai are children of school age. They are growing up in rural Kazakhstan without their father, who went off to Russia in search of work and never came back. Their mother, Polina, is raising them, and they share their home with Polina’s old father and his sister. Without male support, the daily grind is often hard for Polina, and she finds that she cannot cope. The ...
A documentary report on paintings, photographs and the first cinematography images in Iran, which belongs to 90 years ago.