MIFF’s Bright Horizons Award Winner is Hybrid Cinema – a Canadian film in love with Persian cinema, which offers a whole new approach to filmmaking diaspora. We need to use
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… a clever balance of domestic realism and national commentary that translates well to Western audiences.
“Living in Iran... you cannot imagine how hard it is,” says Maryam Moghaddam. She is joined in the chat by her creative and life partner Behtash Sanaeeha. Together, they’re behind
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… equal helpings of love, loss and resistance …
The script is good and the acting consistently engaging … a highly watchable film well worth catching in a cinema.
... not for all tastes but those who do connect with it will likely want to revisit again and again to spend time with its two magical protagonists.
Despite its simple and potentially depressing premise, everything comes together perfectly in its feel-good third act.
Writer/Director Noora Niasari and actor Osamah Sami on the Persian influences of festival favourite Shayda.
Selected for Sundance, where it picked up the World Cinema Audience Award [Drama], Iranian-Australian writer/director Noora Niasari's film stars Iranian actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi (Holy Spider), Leah Purcell, Osamah Sami,
We take a look at the five 2023 Oscar nominated short films, which are receiving a limited cinema release ahead of the March 12 ceremony.