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The President (2014 Film)
''The President'' (Persian: پرزیدنت) is a film by Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf following the themes of his previous film '' The Gardener''. ''The President'' had its world premiere at Venice Film Festival in 2014, opening the festival together with '' Birdman''. Plot A revolution is happening in a country with a dictatorial president. The president sends his family abroad but his grandson wants to stay with his grandfather. In order to save their lives they run away and the president uses a wig and a guitar to disguise himself as a gypsy. They want to reach the sea so they can go to another country by boat. They must experience poverty and hunger during their journey, and see the effects of the dictatorship on the country. The inspiration for the film came when Makhmalbaf visited the Darul Aman Palace in Kabul. The Arab Spring The Arab Spring ( ar, الربيع العربي) was a series of Nonviolent resistance, anti-government protests, Rebellion, uprisings a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Mohsen Makhmalbaf ( fa, محسن مخملباف, ''Mohsen Makhmalbaaf''; born May 29, 1957) is an Iranian film director, writer, film editor, and producer. He has made more than 20 feature films, won some 50 awards and been a juror in more than 15 major film festivals. His award-winning films include ''Kandahar''; his latest documentary is '' The Gardener'' and latest feature '' The President''. Makhmalbaf's films have been widely presented at international film festivals in the past ten years. The director belongs to the new wave movement of Iranian cinema. ''Time'' selected Makhmalbaf's 2001 film ''Kandahar'' as one of the top 100 films of all time. In 2006, he was a member of the Jury at the Venice Film Festival. Makhmalbaf left Iran in 2005 shortly after the election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and has lived in Paris since the events of the 2009 Iranian presidential election. Life Makhmalbaf was born in Tehran on May 29, 1957. At the age of 15, he became involved in a milita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Downey (producer)
Michael Downey is an Irish-British film producer. He is the co-founder and CEO of Film and Music Entertainment and the Chairman of the European Film Academy. Early years Downey was born in Devon, the son of Brigid Downey (née Flood) and Thomas Downey, who were economic migrants from Kildare, Ireland. The family moved to Taunton, Somerset, where he attended the St Georges Roman Catholic School and Huish's Grammar School aka Richard Huish College. Education and career After gaining a BA in French with Theatre Studies at the University of Warwick, Downey went on to continue post-graduate studies at the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle (as a Boursier du Gouvernement Francais/French Government Scholar), and Paris X Nanterre. While working towards his MA and then PhD, he taught at the Lycée Charlemagne and at the theatre school at the Théâtre des Amandiers, under Patrice Chereau. The eighties saw Downey working as a theatre director France, Germany, the for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marzieh Meshkini
Marzieh Meshkini ( fa, مرضیه مشکینی) (born 1969 in Tehran) is an Iranian cinematographer, film director and writer. She is married to filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, who wrote the script for her debut film ''The Day I Became a Woman''. Personal life Marzieh Meshkini was born in Tehran in 1969 and studied geology and biology at the University of Tehran. She is married to director Mohsen Makhmalbaf, whose first wife (Meshkini’s sister Fatemeh, who died in a fire) is the mother to his two children Samira and Meysam. Marzieh Meshkini also had a daughter with Makhmalbaf, Hana. All members of the family are filmmakers and are part of the Makhmalbaf Film House. Work Marzieh Meshkini studied cinema at the Makhmalbaf Film School, established as part of the Makhmalbaf Film House in the mid-1990s. She has worked on several films from the MFH, including serving as the assistant director on Samira Makhmalbaf's 1998 film, ''The Apple'' (''Sib)'', and writing the script for Hana Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hana Makhmalbaf
Hana Makhmalbaf ( fa, حنا مخملباف; born September 3, 1988 in Tehran) is an Iranian filmmaker. She is the younger sister of filmmaker Samira Makhmalbaf and daughter of filmmakers Mohsen Makhmalbaf and fatemeh meshkini. She is known for her films, ''Joy of Madness'' (2003)'','' ''Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame'' (2007) and ''Green Days'' (2009). Makhmalbaf won the Lina Mangiacapre Award at the Venice Film Festival in 2003 for ''Joy of Madness'' (2003)''. Joy of Madness'' also won the Special Jury Prize at Tokyo Filmex. Makhmalbaf's film ''Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame'' won various awards as well, such as the Paolo Ungari UNICEF Prize from the Rome Film Festival and the Peace Film Award at the Berlin International Film Festival. Early life and education Makhmalbaf's film involvement began early in her life. By age three, she had already attended the Cannes Film Festival. Her own work gained attention by age eight when the Locarno Film Festival screened her first sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Makhmalbaf Film House
Makhmalbaf Film House is a film production company started by Mohsen Makhmalbaf and his family in Iran. The production company, which comprises all his family members, continues to produce films from the United Kingdom. Their latest production was '' Marghe and Her Mother'', released in 2019. A number of books have been written about this production company and their importance in world cinema. The production house has produced more than 20 films in the past few decades. Members *Mohsen Makhmalbaf *Samira Makhmalbaf * Maysam Makhmalbaf *Hana Makhmalbaf Hana Makhmalbaf ( fa, حنا مخملباف; born September 3, 1988 in Tehran) is an Iranian filmmaker. She is the younger sister of filmmaker Samira Makhmalbaf and daughter of filmmakers Mohsen Makhmalbaf and fatemeh meshkini. She is known for ... * Marziyeh Meshkiny Films References Film production companies of Iran {{film-company-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venice Film Festival
The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ( it, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival held in Venice, Italy. It is the world's oldest film festival and one of the "Big Six" International film festivals worldwide, which include the Film festival#Notable festivals, Big Three European Film Festivals, alongside the Toronto Film Festival in Canada the Sundance Film Festival in the United States and the Melbourne International Film Festival in Australia. The Festivals are internationally acclaimed for giving creators the artistic freedom to express themselves through film. In 1951, FIAPF formally accredited the festival. Founded by the National Fascist Party in Venice in August 1932, the festival is part of the Venice Biennale, one of the world's oldest exhibitions of art, created by the Venice City Council on 19 April 1893. The ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Persian Language
Persian (), also known by its endonym Farsi (, ', ), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages. Persian is a pluricentric language predominantly spoken and used officially within Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan in three mutually intelligible standard varieties, namely Iranian Persian (officially known as ''Persian''), Dari Persian (officially known as ''Dari'' since 1964) and Tajiki Persian (officially known as ''Tajik'' since 1999).Siddikzoda, S. "Tajik Language: Farsi or not Farsi?" in ''Media Insight Central Asia #27'', August 2002. It is also spoken natively in the Tajik variety by a significant population within Uzbekistan, as well as within other regions with a Persianate history in the cultural sphere of Greater Iran. It is written officially within Iran and Afghanistan in the Persian alphabet, a derivation of the Arabic script, and within Tajikistan in the Tajik alphabet, a der ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gardener (2012 Film)
''The Gardener'' ( fa, باغبان, ''Bāghbān'') is a documentary film by Mohsen Makhmalbaf. It had its Asian premiere at Busan International Film Festival, its European premiere at Rotterdam International Film Festival, and North American premiere at the Vancouver International Film Festival. It is the first film in decades to be made by an Iranian filmmaker in Israel. The film has been shown in more than 20 film festivals and won the Best Documentary award from Beirut International Film Festival and the special Maverick Award at the Motovun Film Festival in Croatia. The film was selected as "Critic's Pick of the Week" by New York Film Critics Circle, "Best of the Fest" at Busan Film Festival by ''The Hollywood Reporter'', and "Top Ten Films" at Mumbai Film Festival by ''Times of India'', and its script was added to the Library of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Synopsis The film is about an Iranian filmmaker and his son who travel to Israel to learn about the r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birdman (film)
''Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)'', or simply ''Birdman'', is a 2014 American black comedy -drama film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. It was written by Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bó. The film stars Michael Keaton as Riggan Thomson, a faded Hollywood actor best known for playing the superhero "Birdman", as he struggles to mount a Broadway adaptation of Raymond Carver's short story, "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love". The film also features a supporting cast of Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough, Amy Ryan, Emma Stone, and Naomi Watts. The film covers the period of previews leading to the play's opening, and with a brief exception appears as if filmed in a single shot, an idea Iñárritu had from the film's conception. Cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki believed that the recording time necessary for the long take approach taken in ''Birdman'' could not have been made with older technol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darul Aman Palace
Darul Aman Palace ( ps, د دارالامان ماڼۍ; prs, قصر دارالامان; 'Abode of Peace' or, in a double meaning, 'Abode of Aman llah) is a three-story-tall palace located in Darulaman, which about south-west of the centre of Kabul, Afghanistan. Surrounding the palace are the following buildings: the National Assembly, the National Museum of Afghanistan and the Afghan International University. The 150 room Darul Aman Palace was originally built in the 1920s, during the reign of Amanullah Khan. Restored national treasure a bright spot for Afghans as they celebrate independence day holiday ('' Stars and Stripes'', 21 August 2020). https://www.stripes.com/theaters/middle_east/restored-national-treasure-a-bright-spot-for-afghans-as-they-celebrate-independence-day-holiday-1.642045 He reigned as Emir of Afghanistan between February 1919 and June 1926, and as King of Afghanistan between June 1926 and January 1929. The palace was severely damaged during the 1990s civil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arab Spring
The Arab Spring ( ar, الربيع العربي) was a series of Nonviolent resistance, anti-government protests, Rebellion, uprisings and Insurgency, armed rebellions that spread across much of the Arab world in the early 2010s. It began in Tunisian Revolution, Tunisia in response to corruption and economic stagnation. From Tunisia, the protests then spread to five other countries: Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Syria and Bahrain. Rulers were deposed (Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Muammar Gaddafi, Hosni Mubarak, Ali Abdullah Saleh) or major uprisings and social violence occurred including riots, civil wars, or insurgencies. Sustained street demonstrations took place in Morocco, Iraq, Algeria, Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman and Sudan. Minor protests took place in Djibouti, Mauritania, State of Palestine, Palestine, Saudi Arabia and the Southern Provinces, Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara. A major slogan of the demonstrators in the Arab world is ''Ash-shab yurid isqat an-nizam, ash-shaʻb yurīd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 Films
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