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	<title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Iranian Cinema</title>
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		<title>BUDDHA COLLAPSED OUT OF SHAME at the 2007 San Sebastian Film Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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&#34;As an 18-year-old girl who lives in Iran today and who faces very specific ideological, political and social pressures, I have a lot to say &#8230; Even though my film was not made in Iran, it shows my desire to speak of collective suffering, in Iran as well as in Afghanistan.&#34;
That&#8217;s director Hana Makhmalbaf, whose feature-film debut, Buda as sharm foru rikht / Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame, was screened yesterday at the San Sebastian Film Festival.
Written by Marzieh Meshkini, the Franco-Iranian Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame is set in central Afghanistan&#8217;s Bamiyan valley, where the Taliban blew up two rock-carved giant Buddhas in 2001. The film tells the story of a six-year-old Afghan girl&#8217;s struggle to receive a formal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TASTE OF CHERRY by Abbas Kiarostami</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2007 04:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ta&#8217;m e guilass / Taste of Cherry (1997) 
Direction and Screenplay: Abbas Kiarostami. Cast: Homayon Ershadi, Abdolrahman Bagheri, Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari, Mir Hossein Noori
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By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica:
There is the old, and often neglected, nostrum about &#8216;gilding the lily.&#8217; I was reminded of this while watching Abbas Kiarostami&#8217;s acclaimed Ta&#8217;m e guilass / Taste of Cherry, co-winner of the Palme d&#8217;Or at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival. Even though Taste of Cherry comes close to being a great film for the bulk of its 99 minutes (not the oft-claimed 95 minutes), its much-discussed ending &#8212; the breaking the fourth wall (à la Ingmar Bergman in the 1960s) to reveal what has just been witnessed is all a film &#8212; is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asian Film Awards &#8211; 2007 Winners</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/asian-film-awards-2007-winners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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&#34;It&#8217;s almost strange that it&#8217;s the first ceremony,&#34; remarked French director Luc Besson at the 1st Asian Film Awards presentation held this evening at Hong Kong&#8217;s Convention and Exhibition Centre, as part of the 31st Hong Kong International Film Festival which kicked off last night.
&#34;Good films come from everywhere,&#34; added Besson. &#34;Artists are like mushrooms, a little sun, a little water and they grow, they don&#8217;t need passports, visas to create.&#34;
The South Korean sci-fi-horror, political suspense thriller, and comedy-drama (yup, it&#8217;s all that) Gwoemul / The Host came out as the big winner of the evening, with a total of four awards: best film, best actor (Song Kang-ho, left, as the film&#8217;s ditzy blond), best cinematographer (Kim Hyung-goo), and best [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thessaloniki Film Festival 2006 Winners</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/thessaloniki-film-festival-2006-winners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2006 00:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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The top winner at the 2006 edition of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, which wrapped today, was Kim Tae-yong&#8217;s Korean drama Gajokeui Tansaeng / Family Ties, about different relationships within a dysfunctional family.
In addition to the Golden Alexander Award for Best Film (worth 37,000 euros), Family Ties won a joint Best Actress award (for Moon So-ri, Goh Doon-shim, Kong Hyo-jin and Kim Hae-ok), while screenwriters Sung Ki-young and Kim Tae-yong shared the Best Screenplay award with Maurício Zacharias, Felipe Bragança, Karim Ainouz for the dramatic comedy O Céu de Suely / Suely in the Sky, the story of a woman (Hermila Guedes) from the Brazilian Northeast who dreams of a better life elsewhere. (Last month, O Céu de Suely won [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar 2007: BORDER CAFE and SWEET MUD Submitted</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/border-cafe-sweet-mud-oscar-2007/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Oct 2006 09:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Kambuzia Partovi&#8217;s Café Transit / Border Café, the story of an Iranian widow who encounters a number of social and personal obstacles once she begins managing her late husband&#8217;s roadhouse (a practice forbidden in Iran), has been chosen as the Iranian entry for the 2006 Best Foreign-Language Film Academy Award. The film&#8217;s star, Fereshteh Sadr-Orafaii won the Best Actress Award at the 9th Iran Cinema Celebration last year. 
According to Payvand, Border Café was selected from among three other films, Asghar Farhadi&#8217;s Chaharshanbeh-Suri, Bahman Farmanara&#8217;s A Little Kiss, and Maziar Miri&#8217;s Slowly. 

The Israeli Academy of Film and Television has submitted Adama Meshuga&#8217;at / Sweet Mud, co-winner of Israel&#8217;s 2006 Ophir Awards, as the Israeli entry for the Oscars. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran Cinema Celebration Awards 2005</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2005 00:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[2005 Iran Cinema Celebration Awards
2005 Iran Cinema Celebration: Vahdat Hall in Tehran on September 11, 2005.
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Reza Mir-Karimi&#8217;s Khilli dors khilli nazdek / So Close, So Far, a tale of two Irans &#8212; one modern and secular, the other ancient and religious &#8212; has been chosen best Iranian film at the 9th Iran Cinema Celebration Awards. 
Mir-Karimi also won the best director award, and the film&#8217;s star, Masud Rayegan, took best actor honors.
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Best Film: Khilli dors khilli nazdek / So Close, So Far directed and produced by Reza Mir-Karimi 
Best Director: Reza Mir-Karimi (Khilli dors khilli nazdek / So Close, So Far) 
Best Actor: Masud Rayegan (Khilli dors khilli nazdek / So Close, So Far) 
Best Actress: Fereshteh Sadr-Orafaii (Border Café) [...]]]></description>
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