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Cannes 2023 :: Killers of the Flower Moon :: Martin Scorsese’s Bitterest Crime Epic Martin Scorsese triumphs yet again. A story about greed, corruption, and the mottled soul of a country that was born from the belief that it belonged to anyone callous enough to take it.. |
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Berlinale 2023 :: Full Winners List This year’s jury, headed by Kristen Stewart, gave
the Golden Bear award to the French documentary “On the Adamant..” The Silver Bear for
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BAFTA 2023 :: ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’
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Berlinale 2023 :: Golshifteh Farahani :: Talks Role Of
Art In Iran “In A Dictatorship Like
Iran, Art Is Essential, It’s Like Oxygen.” Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani, who is at the
Berlin Film Festival as a member of Kristen Stewart’s jury, has talked passionately about the
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SIFF 2023 :: Shirin Ebadi :: Until We Are Free
This is the amazing, at times harrowing,
simply astonishing story of a woman who would never give up, no matter the risks. The first
Muslim woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Shirin Ebadi has inspired millions around
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IFFR 2023 Awards :: 'Le spectre de Boko Haram' and
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Winners of the 2022 ‘Sepanta Awards’ :: 15th Annual
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festival presented 50 films from Iran, USA, Italy, France, Luxembourg, Greece, UK, Canada,
Australia, and Denmark…, ranging from fiction, documentary, short, animation…. to the
music video.. |
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Opinion :: Will Venice Protests Help or Hurt filmmakers
in Iran? As the Venice Film Festival
celebrates Iranian cinema — with four Iranian films screening at the 79th Biennale — back
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Biennale Cinema 2022 :: Awards Ceremony
Official Awards of the 79th Venice Film Festival.
Announced by the five international Juries, chaired by Julianne Moore, during the Awards
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Coming: 15th Annual Iranian Film Festival! : San
Francisco: Sep. 17-18 This year, the
festival presents 50 films from Iran, USA, Italy, France, Luxembourg, Greece, UK, Canada,
Australia, and Denmark…, ranging from fiction, documentary, short, animation…. to the
music video. We are happy and proud to.. |
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Maghsoudlou, Bahman |
Date of birth
1946, Gorgan, Iran
Bahman Maghsoudlou (1946, Gorgan, Iran)
Film scholar, critic and independent film producer/director. Bahman Maghsoudlou has been a participant in the world cinema scene in many capacities.
He has served as a panelist, juror and lecturer at a wide variety of film festivals, including the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Tri-Continental Festival at Nantes, France, the Margaret Mead Festival in New York City, the St. Petersburg “Message to Man” Festival and others.
As an author he was the recipient of the Forough Farrokhzad literary award in Iran (1975).
His books include the widely acclaimed Iranian Cinema (1987), published by New York University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, which is used around the world as a resource on the history of Persian films.
Maghsoudlou wrote and directed the short documentary film Ardeshir Mohasses and His Caricatures, (1972) which was shown at the Leipzig Film Festival in 1996.
As a producer his films have been selected for more than one hundred prestigious films festivals from all around the world. They include The Suitors (Cannes, 1988), Manhattan by Numbers (Venice, Toronto, 1993), Seven Servants (Locarno, Toronto, 1996), starring Anthony Quinn and David Warner, and Life in Fog (1998), the single most awarded short/documentary film in the history of Iranian Cinema
Ahmad Mahmoud: A Noble Novelist (2004), his second directorial documentary, is about an important Iranian novelist and part of a series about renowned Iranian artists.
The film premiered at the Berlin Asian Pacific Film Festival, and was selected for ISIS and MESA, 2004 and the 15th Annual Celebration of Iranian Cinema at the UCLA Film & Television Archive Film Festival, 2005.
His latest feature film as producer, Silence of the Sea, won the Ecumenical Prize at Mannheim Film Festival 2003, Best Film and Best Screenplay at Croatia Film Festival 2004, Best Music at Asia/Pacific Film Festival, and was also selected for more than twenty film festivals, among them the Sundance Film Festival 2004.
Maghsoudlou is currently producing and directing a long documentary on the history of Iranian Cinema entitled Iranian Cinema: Searching for the Roots (1900-1979) and a historical documentary, The Life and Legacy of Mohammad Mossadegh.
Selected filmography of
Maghsoudlou, Bahman
2016
Razor’s Edge: The Legacy of Iranian Actresses (2016)
2012
Ardeshir Mohasses: The Rebellious Artist (2012)
2009
Iran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments (2009)
2004
Ahmad Mahmoud: A Noble Novelist (2004)
1972
Ardeshir Mohasses & His Caricatures (1972)
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