IFFI-2008 - International Film Festival of India
IFFI-2008 - International Film Festival of India
IFFI-2008 - International Film Festival of India
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<strong>IFFI</strong>-<strong>2008</strong><br />
COMPETITION<br />
<strong>2008</strong>, 35 mm, Colour, 96 min, Persian<br />
Iran<br />
The Song <strong>of</strong> Sparrows<br />
/ Avaze gonjeshk-ha<br />
Karim works at an ostrich farm outside <strong>of</strong> Tehran. He leads a simple and contented life<br />
with his family in his small house, until one day when one <strong>of</strong> the ostriches runs away.<br />
Karim is blamed for the loss and is fired from the farm. Soon after, he travels to the city in<br />
order to repair his elder daughter's hearing aid but finds himself mistaken for a<br />
motorcycle taxi driver. Thus begins his new pr<strong>of</strong>ession: ferrying people and goods<br />
through heavy traffic. But the people and material goods that he deals with daily starts<br />
changing Karim's generous and honest nature, much to the distress <strong>of</strong> his wife and<br />
daughters. It is up to those closest to him to restore the values that he had once cherished.<br />
Direction<br />
Majid Majidi<br />
Screenplay<br />
Mehran Kashani, Majid Majidi<br />
Cinematography<br />
Turaj Mansuri<br />
Editor<br />
Hassan Hassandoost<br />
Music<br />
Hossein Alizadeh<br />
Cast<br />
Reza Naji, Maryam Akbari, Kamran Dehghan, Hamed Aghazi<br />
Art<br />
Asghar Nezhadimani<br />
Sound<br />
Mohammad Reza Delpak, Yadollah Najafi<br />
Production<br />
Majid Majidi <strong>Film</strong> Production<br />
Suite 6, 2nd Floor, Fourth Alley, Gandi Street<br />
IR-Tehran, 1434894163, Iran<br />
T: +98 212 327 6741<br />
F: +98 218 808 1647<br />
Email: avinyfilm_admin@dorsanet.com<br />
World Sales<br />
Fortissimo <strong>Film</strong>s (NL)<br />
Van Diemenstraat 100, Amsterdam, 1013 CN, Netherlands<br />
T; +31 206 273 215<br />
F: +31 206 261 155<br />
Email: info@fortissimo.nl<br />
<strong>Festival</strong>s & Awards<br />
Berlin (Best Actor Silver Bear to Reza Naji), Sydney,<br />
Edinburgh, Seattle, Vancouver, Fajr, Canberra, San Sebastian,<br />
st<br />
Iran's <strong>of</strong>ficial entry for the Best Foreign <strong>Film</strong> Oscar at the 81<br />
Academy Awards, 2009,<br />
(<strong>Film</strong> Courtesy: UTV World Movies)<br />
Born in 1959 in Tehran, Majid Majidi is an internationally-acclaimed Iranian film<br />
director. After the Iranian Revolution in 1979, his interest in cinema brought him to act in<br />
various films, most notably Mohsen Makhmalbaf's Boycott in 1985. Majidi was the first<br />
and the only Iranian director who has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best<br />
Foreign Language <strong>Film</strong> with the film Children <strong>of</strong> Heaven in 1998. His other films are<br />
Children <strong>of</strong> Heaven: The Color <strong>of</strong> Paradise (2000), Baran (2001), and The Willow Tree<br />
(2005). He directed a documentary, Barefoot to Heart, chronicling the life in refugee<br />
camps in Herat during and after the anti-Taliban <strong>of</strong>fensive <strong>of</strong> 2001. He was one <strong>of</strong> five<br />
international film directors invited by the Chinese government to create a documentary<br />
short film to introduce the city <strong>of</strong> Beijing, in preparation for the <strong>2008</strong> Summer Olympics.<br />
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