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Cinema Cinema| 1hr : 09mins
Director: Maani Petgar | Producer: Reverse Angle Production
Focus Years: 1996 | Country: Iran, (IR)
Subject Tags: culture, middle east
Quality Tags: Optimistic, Slow, Activating, Harmonizing
Synopsis:
This is a film about the making of Salaam Cinema by Mohsen Makhmalbaf in Tehran and it's eventual screening in Cannes Film Festival. Viewers are introduced to the personal and professional sides of Makhmalbaf and also to the uncontrollable passion for the cinema, held by the Iranian youth. Int. Art Film Festival, Teplice, Slovakia 1996 9th Singapore Int. Film Festival 1996 Montreal Int. Festival of Cinema & New Media -in competition- Canada 1996 Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival, New York 1997 Leipzig Int. Documentary Film Festival, Germany 1997 14th Turin Int. Film Festival, Italy 1997 37th Dei Popoli Film Festival, Florence, Italy 1997 Astra Film Fest. Int. Fest. Of Anthropology Films, Sibiu, Romania 1998 4th Sheffield Documentary Film Festival, -closing night-England 1997 10th Tokyo International Film Festival 1997 10th Amsterdam Int. Documentary Film Festival -video competition- 1997 and 17 cities in USA, Canada, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, France throughout 1997 as part of "The Makhmalbaf's Retrospective". Golestan, Bolzano University, Italy 2004 Tassvir Film Week, the Portrait of an Artist, Tehran 2004 Doc Point- Helsinki, Finland (Retrospective of Iranian Documentaries) 2008 Monthly Screening of Film Critics Association ('The House of Cinema')- Tehran- 2008

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