Special Programs in Focus
The House is BlackIn 1962, Farrokhzad and three colleagues from Golestan Films traveled to Tabriz and in twelve days filmed The House Is Black, a documentary on the leper colony there. As for the significance of The House is Black, it had the effec...
Open Cinema
Get upGet Up deals with the hilarious happenings related to a James Brown, ′the King of Soul′, concert. The director Izutsu Kazuyuki, famous for Nodojiman, which portrayed the contestants for a TV singing contest, has wished to make a f...
Open Cinema
Boy Who Wanted to Be A BearA poignant and touching drama The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Bear is the eighth feature-length animated film by prolific producer and director Danish grand master Jannik Hastrup. In the polar bear′s den which acts as a sanctuary from ...
Wide Angle
Joy of MadnessFourteen-year-old Hana Makhmalbaf expresses her views about post-Taliban Afghanistan by documenting the production process of At Five in the Afternoon, a film directed by her older sister Samira Makhmalbaf. That is how she began m...
New Currents
Tiny SnowflakesYoung director Alireza Amini has been deeply interested in loneliness and the sense of alienation of people in deserted places. Letters in the Wind, his debut feature, was a story of soldiers consoling themselves by listening to r...
World Cinema
In the South of the CloudsAt the grand old age of 70, Adrien is about to have a life-transforming experience. Until now, he has never moved from his patch on the Cotter Mountain, where he lives with his cows. From this high vantage point, he likes to surve...
Wide Angle
In The EyesA boy and his mother trapped in silence and conflict. Their relationship is uncomfortable and uncommunicative. She always represses his thoughts and feelings. He longs to be free, to be able to do what he wants. One day, when ...
Open Cinema
Good Bye, LeninOctober 1989 was a bad time to fall into a coma if you lived in East Germany and this is precisely what happens to Alex′s proudly socialist mother. Teenage Alex has a big problem on his hands when she suddenly regains consciousnes...
Korean Panorama
Invisible LightThis film, divided into two parts, is about two women Ga-in and Do-hee. The former has an eating disorder and the latter is going to have a baby out-of-wedlock. By keeping herself locked in her room, Ga-in tries to control her bod...
Wide Angle
Trialls it possible to turn the cinema clock back to the time before industrialization?That is, to take an artistic medium away from the mass capital and dehumanization and back to the age of innocence. Trial poses the fundamental ques...