TEHRAN – Tarik Zafer Tunaya Cultural Center in Istanbul hosted the session “Iran’s Cinema of Today” on Thursday as part of Iran’s Film Week now underway in Istanbul.
Cosponsored by the Iranian cultural office in Turkey and Istanbul Municipality, the weeklong festival opened on October 10, the Persian service of MNA reported on Friday.
The session was attended by experts on cinema of Iran and Turkey Ihsan Kabil and Faysal Soysal, Iranian filmmaker Mohammad-Hadi Karimi and actor Mostafa Zamani.
Kabil regarded the weeklong event a good opportunity to introduce Iranian cinema and familiarize Turkish people with the cinema of Iran.
He named Iranian directors like Dariush Mehrjuii, Bahram Beizaii and Kamal Tabrizi and pointed to the young filmmakers and their big successes in the recent years.
Karimi also called Iranian cinema a developing one in the world and expressed hope that more theaters in the world would be dedicated to films with spiritual themes rather than the cinema of Hollywood.
“Prophet Joseph (AS)” actor Zamani believed Iran’s cinema would have a bright future since it has good filmmakers and promising youths.
Soysal who is a graduate of cinema from Iran also said that Iran enjoys rich art and culture with worthwhile activities in cinema, adding that filmmakers must make films for people, not for the festivals.
Organized by the Iranian Visual Media Institute, 10 films are scheduled to be screened during the event including “Prophet Joseph (AS)” by Farajollah Salahshur, “Canaan” by Mani Haqiqi, “The Day of the Devil” by Behruz Afkhami, “The Hidden Sense” by Mostafa Razzaq-Karimi, and “Aal” by Bahram Bahramian.
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via Iranian cinema discussed at Istanbul meeting – Tehran Times.