A look at the team working from behind the scenes of Abbas Kiarostami’s “Certified Copy”
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September 10-11, 2011
IFF 2011 Poster
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Radio France International interview with "Saeed Shafa" about the 4th Annual Iranian Film Festival - San Francisco [September 10-11, 2011].
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San Francisco: The 4th Annual Iranian Film Festival - San Francisco, an annual cultural event showcasing the independent feature and short films made by or about the Iranians from around the world, will present an outstanding program this year with a never seen before discovery of a documentary produced by British broadcaster Sir David Frost called Crossroads of Civilization which was made in 1976 but never seen before, and the IFF will have its world premiere for the first time. The film te...
Iranian Film Festival (IFF) is an annual event showcasing the independent feature and short films made by or about the Iranians from around the world.
IFF is open to all genres. Click here to submit your film. Deadline: August 1, 2011
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Iranian Film Festival - San Francisco
1680 Tiburon Blvd.
Tiburon, CA 94920 USA
Phone: (415) 789-8854
Fax: (415) 388-4123
info@IranianFilmFestival.org
www.IranianFilmFestival.org
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Iranian Film Festival – San Francisco©, is accepting submissions for its 4th annual festival, set for September 10-11, 2011.
To submit your film, please visit Submit Film section and send a DVD and a press kit [synopsis, your bio and photo & some stills from your film] to:
Iranian Film Festival
1680 Tiburon Blvd.
Tiburon, CA 94920 USA
info@IranianFilmFestival.org
www.IranianFilmFestival.org
Deadline: August 1, 2011
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Salam Iran, A Persian Letter
Director: Jean-Daniel Lafond ~ 72 minutes ~ Canada
“I first traveled to Iran with Amir, without ever leaving Montreal. Until the day when a new wind of hope sprang up across Tehran. After 18 years in exile, Amir had decided to return home. And I, to make a film. What seemed at first like a simple story quickly turned complex. In a country where the dead and martyred are more alive than the living, where the past is more present than the present, and w...
Red Burqa
Director: Roxana Pope ~ 5 minutes ~ Scotland/Iran
The Red Burqa worn by women in the Hormozgan region of Southern Iran. This short art documentary takes us behind the masks to reveal the lives of the women who wear them as well as take us on a visually stunning journey across the landscapes of Southern Iran.
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Tehran: Another Side
Director: Sam Ali Kashani ~ 63 minutes ~ Iran/US
Like the majority of Iranian-American families that ultimately settled in California, Sam Ali Kashani’s family came to the United States after the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Sam however, was thoroughly American, leading a lifestyle typical of any young Californian. Therefore, his perspective of Iran was much like most Americans, colored by skewed media portrayals and political constructions. Yet, the Tehra...
30 years ago they had a political revolution - but is Iran about to have a revolution of a very different kind? In an exclusive investigation, we go inside Iran to explore the secret underground world of sex, drugs and rock 'n roll. Just how far can Iran's Young Rebels change the country's religious regime?
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‘Letters from America’ revolves around the saga of a father and daughter and their impressions of America upon returning to the US after so many years. It is the testimony of a western educated Iranian intellectual who having returned to Iran to raise his family after living in America for many years; has once again returned to America to witness the changes that have taken place since he lived there. It is also the testimony of his nineteen years old daughter born in America and raised in p...
Gohar Kheirandish, actress and director, was born in 1954 in the city of Shiraz, state of Fars, Iran. She began her acting career in 1970 while in High School in association with a theater group in the city of Shiraz. Her first movie is named "Rooz haye Entezaar" [The days of waiting] that was screened in 1986. She earned her Acting and directing degree from the University of Tehran, "Daneshkadeh-ye- Honarhaye Zeeba" which translates to "The College of Beautiful Arts.&q...
Two Iranian exiles, a left-wing filmmaker and the deposed Shah's widow, Queen Farah, form an unlikely bond in this illuminating and compassionate documentary about life after the Islamic revolution.
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From Nahid Persson, the filmmaker of the award winning Prostitution Behind the Veil, comes an intimate portrait of a polygamist family in a rural Iranian village. Persson reveals the intricacies of the relationships between the four wives, their husband, their astoundingly free-spoken mother in- law and their numerous children. Sometimes humorous and often heartbreaking, this film follows the daily lives of the wives whose situation has turned them into both bitter rivals and coconspirators agai...
The 2009 program is posted on line. Please visit the festival website for more information: http://iranianfilmfestival.org/Home_Page.html
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In honor of the Iranian women and the important role they play in the Iranian society, we dedicate this year’s festival to the Iranian women and the Iranian women filmmakers.
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