<DIV> Yes! The Iranian movie festival is going to start this Friday, and it will last for 3 weeks. Since this year several artistic and skilful movies are going to be shown, we were wondering if it is possible for us to recieve any kind of discount on movie tickets. Regarding this fact, today I went to MFA, and I spoke with mr. Smith (the head of the movie department at MFA). He actually was thrilled by this idea, but one thing that he impressed on was the fact that they won't be able to give us any discounts unless we have a group of <STRONG>AT LEAST </STRONG>30 people for the desired movies. So what I am doing, is that here I have listed some good movies with their different hours, and there is a number assigned to each one of them. All you have to do is to reply my mail with JUST the <STRONG>numbers </STRONG>that you are interested in joining us, and you are certain that you will be able to make it. Sinc!
e the
money is collected first, and then the tickets are purchased by me, you want to make sure that you do the right selection according to the date and time. I need your replies ASAP in order to be able to work things out with mr. Smith. So plz reply to my mail within these 2 or 3 days. I really really do appreciate it if you do so.</DIV>
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<DIV>Here are the few movies:</DIV>
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<DIV> <FONT face=arial><STRONG>1. </STRONG><STRONG>10 on Ten -</STRONG></FONT><FONT face="Simplified Arabic Fixed"> Sat, Nov 13, 10:30 am</FONT><BR> <STRONG><FONT face=arial>2. 10 on Ten -</FONT></STRONG> <FONT face="Simplified Arabic Fixed">Sat, Nov 27, 4 pm</FONT><BR> <FONT face="Simplified Arabic Fixed">10 on Ten by Abbas Kiarostami (Iran/France, 2003, 87 min.). A group of lessons documenting Kiarostami's internationally-recognized, guerilla brand of filmmaking, 10 on Ten has the filmmaker holding up his previous film, Ten, as a standard model for students interested in independent film. "Diametrically opposed" to the Hollywood model, Kiarostami’s use of a spare, digital-video camera style to capture the subtleties of non-professional actors and better achieve his ultimate filmmaking goal to reflect every-day life, also allows him to be free from large film crews and the need for outside investors. "A self-contained master class on cine!
ma"
(Deborah Young, Variety). In Persian with English voiceover.</FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=arial><STRONG> 3. </STRONG><STRONG>At Five in the Afternoon -</STRONG></FONT><FONT face="Simplified Arabic Fixed"> Sat, Nov 13, 4:30 pm</FONT><BR> <FONT face=arial><STRONG>4. </STRONG><STRONG>At Five in the Afternoon -</STRONG></FONT><FONT face="Simplified Arabic Fixed"> Fri, Nov 26, 8 pm<BR> At Five in the Afternoon by Samira Makhmalbaf (Panj e Asr, Iran/France, 2003, 106 min.). Internationally acclaimed director Samira Makhmalbaf's (The Apple, Blackboards) newest feature is an exquisitely crafted portrait of exile and longing set amidst the ruins of post-Taliban Kabul. A devout old coachman searches for shelter to protect his family and waits for his lost son to return from Pakistan. The film centers around the coachman's daughter, who chafes under his old-world values and dreams of becoming Afghanistan's future president. The family moves endlessly, and with no money for medicine, their baby child grows dangerously ill. At Five in the !
Afternoon
was the first foreign film made in Kabul since the toppling of the Taliban regime. In Persian and Kurdish with English subtitles.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Simplified Arabic Fixed"> <STRONG><FONT face=arial>5. Beautiful City -</FONT></STRONG> Fri, Nov 19, 8 pm</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Simplified Arabic Fixed"> <STRONG><FONT face=arial>6. Beautiful City -</FONT></STRONG> Sat, Nov 27, 2 pm</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Simplified Arabic Fixed"> Beautiful City by Asghar Farhadi (Shahre Ziba, Iran, 2004, 100 min.)A lonely abused woman warily lets a paroled convict into her life when he promises to help get her brother's death sentence commuted. Director Farhadi (Dancing in the Dust) presents one of the more frank and realistic portrayals of young love in contemporary Iranian cinema in counterpoint to the grim quest of a murder victim's father for eye-for-an-eye justice. The award-winning star of I am Taraneh, 15, shines in a nuanced performance as the sister trapped in a marriage of convenience to a disreputable middle-aged peddler but increasingly drawn to the ex-con who is her brother's best friend. Description courtesy of the Gene Siskel Film Center.<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Simplified Arabic Fixed"> <STRONG><FONT face=arial>7. The First Letter -</FONT></STRONG> Sat, Nov 13, 9 pm</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Simplified Arabic Fixed"> <FONT face=arial><STRONG>8. The Fisrt Letter -</STRONG></FONT> Sun, Nov. 28, 1 pm<BR> The First Letter by Abolfazl Jalili (Abjad, Iran, 2003, 110 min.). This fictionalized autobiographical coming-of-age story by Iranian director Abolfazl Jalili (Delbaran) takes place in pre-revolutionary 1970s Iran, when Jews made up 15 percent of the population and some Jewish parents sent their children to Koranic schools. Jalili's alter ego is Emkan, an outgoing 16-year-old student whose Koran study class begins with the Abjad, or ritual recital of the alphabet. Next to him sits Maassoum, a Jewish girl whose father owns the local cinema. The religious authorities and his father condemn all the subjects that Emkan loves - calligraphy, music, photography, and film - while the neighbors, and his family, scorn his affection for Maassoum. The film offers a rare portrayal of Jews in pre-revolutionary Iran. Co-presented by The Boston Je!
wish Film
Festival.<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Simplified Arabic Fixed"> <FONT face=arial><STRONG>9. Afghan Alphabet and Return to Kandahar -</STRONG></FONT> Fri, Dec 3, 6 pm</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Simplified Arabic Fixed"> <STRONG><FONT face=arial>10. Afghan Alphabet and Return to Kandahar -</FONT></STRONG> Sat, Dec 11, 11 am<BR></FONT><FONT face="Simplified Arabic Fixed"> Afghan Alphabet by Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Alefbay-e Afghan, Iran, 2001, 46 min.) and Return to Kandahar by Paul Jay and Nelofer Pazira (Canada, 2003, 65 min.). In this moving documentary, world-renowned director Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Kandahar, The Cyclist) paints a picture of education in the border villages between Iran and Afghanistan, post-9/11. Accompanied by Return to Kandahar, which follows Nelofer Pazira, the star of Mohsen Makhmalbaf's 2001 feature, Kandahar, as she returns to her native Afghanistan for the first time in 13 years. Her goal: To track down her childhood friend Dyana, whose story inspired Kandahar in the first place. What she discovers is an Afghanistan where local anarchy, 'warlordism', and occupation by foreign military forces in their "w!
ar on
terror" shatter hopes for peace and stability. "Eye opening…breathtaking…In just 60 minutes [Nelofer] takes us deeper into Afghanistan than all those endless hours of CNN" (Macleans).<BR><BR> <STRONG><FONT face=arial><U>11. Here, a Shining Light -</U></FONT></STRONG> Sat, Dec 4, 3:30 pm (highly recommended!)<BR> <STRONG><FONT face=arial><U>12. Here, a Shining Light -</U></FONT></STRONG> Sun, Dec 12, 3:45 pm (highly recommended!)<BR> Here, a Shining Light by Seyyed Reza Mir-Karimi (Inja Cheraghi Roshan Ast, Iran, 2003, 100 min.). The director of The Child and the Soldier and Under the Moonlight creates the story of an addled shepherd who comes to believe he's in touch with a saintly being when he fills in as caretaker at a mountain shrine. Filmed in widescreen, giving the stunning vistas of sky and mountain a major emotional presence in the story, Here, a Shining Light creates an eerie intersection between the seen and the unseen when scoffing!
locals
begin to discern that something out of the ordinary is developing on their mountaintop. Description courtesy of the Gene Siskel Film Center.<BR><BR><BR> I am waiting. :D</FONT></DIV>
<P><FONT face="Simplified Arabic Fixed">Felan, sincerely,</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Simplified Arabic Fixed"> ...Jayran Jahani...</P>
<DIV>TO THE PRESIDENTS OF PERSIAN CLUBS AT OTHER SCHOOLS: plz forward this email to the members, and whoever you know.<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR></DIV></FONT><p>
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