[LCM Events] [arab-announce] Iranian Movie Festival Ticket Discount. (fwd)

[Hanan Karam]

hi everyone,
here's an opportunity for discounts to the Iranian movie festival
starting this Friday.

please read below if you're interested.

Hanan

----- Forwarded message from Jayran Jahani <jayj2008 at yahoo.com> -----

   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
AT LEAST 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 numbers that you are interested in joining us, and you are certain that you
will be able to make it.  Since 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.

Here are the few movies:

 1. 10 on Ten - Sat, Nov 13, 10:30 am
 2. 10 on Ten - Sat, Nov 27, 4 pm
     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 cinema" (Deborah Young, Variety). In Persian
with English voiceover.

 3. At Five in the Afternoon - Sat, Nov 13, 4:30 pm
 4. At Five in the Afternoon - Fri, Nov 26, 8 pm
  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.

 5. Beautiful City - Fri, Nov 19, 8 pm
 6. Beautiful City - Sat, Nov 27, 2 pm
   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.

 7. The First Letter - Sat, Nov 13, 9 pm
 8. The Fisrt Letter - Sun, Nov. 28, 1 pm
   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 Jewish
Film Festival.

 9. Afghan Alphabet and Return to Kandahar - Fri, Dec 3, 6 pm
 10. Afghan Alphabet and Return to Kandahar - Sat, Dec 11, 11 am
    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 "war
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).

 11. Here, a Shining Light - Sat, Dec 4, 3:30 pm (highly recommended!)
 12. Here, a Shining Light - Sun, Dec 12, 3:45 pm (highly recommended!)
    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.


  I am waiting. :D

Felan, sincerely,

 ...Jayran Jahani...
TO THE PRESIDENTS OF PERSIAN CLUBS AT OTHER SCHOOLS:  plz forward this email to
the members, and whoever you know.





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