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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
Best Lead Performance notably went to child star Sofia Otero for “20,000 Species of Bees.”
Philippe Garrel's “The Plough” was.. |
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BAFTA 2023 :: ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’
Dominates BAFTA Awards With Seven Wins “All Quiet on the Western Front” dominated the BAFTA Awards in London on
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including for Best Director.. |
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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
the globe.. |
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IFFR 2023 Awards :: 'Le spectre de Boko Haram' and
'Endless Borders' are the victors Cyrielle Raingou’s documentary took home the Tiger Award, whilst Abbas
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person comeback.. |
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Winners of the 2022 ‘Sepanta Awards’ :: 15th Annual
Iranian Film Festival This year, the
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
home in Tehran, Iranian filmmakers and artists are facing the harshest crackdown in
decades.. |
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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
Ceremony that was held on Saturday 10th September at 7:00 pm..
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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
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Kavani, Mina |
Birth name
Mina Khosravani
Date of Birth
24 May ?, Tehran, Iran
Mina Kavani (May 24. Tehran, Iran)
Mina Khosravani (born May 24) known professionally as Mina Kavani, is an Iranian-French actress.
She is best known for her role in No Bears (2022), which won the Special Jury Prize at the 79th Venice International Film Festival.
Mina Kavani was born in Tehran. Brought up into an artistic family, and niece of the well-known film and play director Ali Raffi, she graduated from Conservatoire Supérieur National d'Art dramatique of Paris (CNSAD).
Fascinated by acting from an early age, she started participating regularly at her uncle's rehearsals at the age of twelve. At sixteen she made her debut in the play It Doesn't Snow in Egypt under the direction of her uncle and on the stage of Tehran's City Theatre, inaugurating her carrier in Iran as an actress in theatre. She soon had pieces such as: Othello (Desdemona), Antigone (Antigone), La Musica and J'étais dans ma maison et j'attendais que la pluie vienne.
She has collaborated with some of Iran's most crucial film and theatre directors. At the age of twenty-three, she moved back to Paris and entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur as part of the Jean Damien Barbin's class, during the time in which Daniel Mesguich was the director.
In 2012, she voiced the role of Sahar in the Oscar winning film Argo directed by Ben Affleck.
In the year 2013 she played the protagonist Sara in Sepideh Farsi's film Red Rose. The film was presented international festivals such as the Toronto Film Festival, Festival de Marrakech, and the Chicago film festival. Due to the film containing some nudity, Kavani became the centre of threats made by the Iranian media, resulting in her exile. She received her political refugee status with the support of Isabelle Huppert and Bertrand Bonello who had praised her performance in the movie.
In 2014 Kavani performed on the stage of l'Odeon-Theatre de l'Europe, reciting poems by the Iranian contemporary poet Forough Farrokhzad under the direction of Roland Timsit. In 2015 she appeared at Auditorium Orchestre National de Lyon with the notable French actor Jean-Damien Barbin, performing Happy Day Shakespeare.
In the same year she was chosen as one of the juries (next to actress Marisa Berenson) at the Rencontre Cinemathographique de Cannes. Patrick De Carolis was the president of the jury.
In 2015 and 2016 she portrayed the celebrated contemporary Austrian poet Ingeborg Bachmann in the play Malina by Barbara Hutt, during Festival d'Avignon. In 2016 she played Lili in the film Sous Transe by the Moroccan filmmaker Camellia Montassere.
In 2017-18 she appeared in the role of Ipek, on the play Snow an adaption of the novel by Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk (winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in literature) directed by Blandine Savetier of the National Theatre of Strasburg (TNS). The play was performed all over France and China.
Kavani moved to France in 2010 and acquired French citizenship.
Filmography
2010 Mr. Yousef 2014 Red Rose 2021 Undercover 2022 The Girl and the Boy 2022 No Bears 2023 The Siren (Animated film) TBA Reading Lolita in Tehran | Eran Riklis (Post-production) TBA Black Turban | Gaël Métroz
Selected works of
Kavani, Mina
2023
The Siren | La Sirene | Pari'e Abadan (2023)
2022
No Bears | Khers Nist (2022)
2014
Red Rose (2014)
2011
Agha Yousef (2011)
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