- 8 January 2010
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Freer and Sackler Galleries’ 14th Annual Iranian Film Festival Debuts
8 January 2010 Posted By Darioush Azizi
In conjunction with the Falnama: The Book of Omens exhibit, the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Galleries’ 14th Annual Iranian Film Festival features five new films and a special presentation by Abbas Kiarostami. The film festival runs all month from January 8 to February 21 and is organized by Carter Long of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts with the support of ILEX Foundation: Olga M. Davidson and Niloofar Fotouhi.
Films include, Payman Haghani’s A Man Who Ate His Cherries, Kiarostami’s Taziyeh (The Spectators) and Shirin, Samira Makhmalbaf’s Two-Legged Horse, Niloofar and Shalizeh Arefpour’s Heiran. Film topics range from a story of a wealthy child with no legs and 12-year old girl’s quest for an education and an Iranian girl who falls in love with an Afghan refugee.
All films are in Persian with English subtitles. The festival recommends viewers to arrive at least an hour early; as there is high demand for tickets, assigned seating is in effect and tickets are distributed one hour before show-time with a two-ticket-per-person limit. For information on the film festival, please click here.
2 Responses to “Freer and Sackler Galleries’ 14th Annual Iranian Film Festival Debuts”
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Dear Madam(s), Dear Sir(s),
I would like to thank you for reporting on matters Iranian in an unexcited, matter-of-fact tone,
which by the way as as result communicates itself to the tone usually adopted by your commentators/readers on their part!
A hard task to keep a cool, rational head, a stiff upper lip in times as tempestuous [to say the least] as these !
This kind of climate and atmosphere – conducive to sound mental reflection – seems to enable your readers to ponder calmly on momentous matters of far-reaching – and at the time cataclysmic and disastrous – importance/relevance.
So thank you very much from the whole of my heart!
With best wishes from everything good for you and for Iran
remains
Publicola
MashAllah