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Doha-based Katara Studios unveils four-film slate at Red Sea

Screen Daily 07 Dec 2024
Currently filming in Qatar, the film stars Alex Uloom, Hala Al ... Katara Studios’ credits include Starzplay sci-fi series , Farsi language feature film and , an original sci-fi drama on The Roku Channel.
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‘Universal Language’ Is the Only Oscar Entry Where a Turkey Was Arrested on the Set

The Wrap 04 Dec 2024
I understand that many of the strange things we see in this film are actually from your personal experience ... But the Iranian influence goes beyond that — much of the film is in Farsi and seems to take place in Iran or a version of Iran.
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From Kowloon Walled City to 1910s Copenhagen: The international Oscar contenders with boldly imagined film worlds

Screen Daily 02 Dec 2024
... on the film’s shopfronts and offices. The use of Farsi rather than English met no resistance from the film’s backers in Quebec, the centre of Canada’s French-language film industry, reports Rankin.
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Intrepid Exile Mohammad Rasoulof Thwarts the Theocracy

Truth Dig 26 Nov 2024
In a new film, “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” Iranian writer and director Mohammad Rasoulof risked his freedom to dramatize and encapsulate the recent uprising — all while evading Iran’s security forces ... The question of the film is.
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How Israel’s Eran Riklis made ’Reading Lolita In Tehran’ with Golshifteh Farahani

Screen Daily 18 Oct 2024
“I didn’t want to make the mistake a lot of films do, where they take somebody Moroccan to play Iranian,” says Riklis ... But further obstacles included a language barrier, with Farahani having not spoken Farsi on film for over a decade.
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NYFF 62 Review: Patriarchy, repression and routine in ‘The Sealed Soil’

Washington Square News 07 Oct 2024
Nabili’s film isn’t without its vibrant historical climate ... The film was shot entirely without sound, with Nabili herself having added the dubbing in Farsi and sound effects post-production in the United States.
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The MENA films from Lebanon and Iran featured at the 2024 VIFF

The New Arab 30 Sep 2024
Rather topically, most of the films from the MENA region this year are from Iran (where there are over 50,000 Farsi speakers in the greater Vancouver area) and Lebanon (home to over 6,000 Lebanese).
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Films from Lebanon and Iran shine at the 2024 VIFF

The New Arab 30 Sep 2024
Rather topically, most of the films from the MENA this year are from Iran (there are over 50,000 Farsi speakers in the greater Vancouver area) and Lebanon (the city is home to over 6,000 Lebanese), ...
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Matt Johnson and Kazik Radwanski on hurdles facing young Canadian directors

Moosejaw Today 09 Sep 2024
Telefilm said in a release last year that it had selected 18 films for its Talent to Watch Program for 2023-2024, including films told in Spanish, Farsi and Wayuunaiki, as well as English and French.
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Medusa of the Roses by Navid Sinaki review – noir debut of forbidden love

The Observer 04 Sep 2024
The action kicks off with the disappearance of Zal after a row between the couple ... Zal, meanwhile, is a fan of old Hollywood films, which he watches on glitchy contraband VHS tapes in badly dubbed Farsi ... suspense ... Sign up to Bookmarks ... Share ... .
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Guy Maddin wades into more conventional fare with 'Rumours.' It's still weird.

North Shore News 29 Aug 2024
TORONTO — Guy Maddin has built a career helming bewildering, dreamlike, avant-garde films, but the Winnipeg auteur's new dark political comedy “Rumours” may be his most accessible work yet ... “[The film] needed to be set in the present.
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Oscars: Canada picks 'Universal Language' for Best International Feature category

Beijing News 28 Aug 2024
This movie, which is in Farsi and French language, is a tribute to Iranian cinema. The film is set in the Canadian cities of Montreal and Winnipeg, where Rankin imagines a world where Farsi has become a dominant language.
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Matthew Rankin's 'Universal Language' named Canada's official entry for Oscar bid

North Shore News 27 Aug 2024
Matthew Rankin's movie, which premiered earlier this year at the Cannes Film Festival, sees the co-writer/director play himself alongside a Farsi- and French-speaking cast in an alternate universe where Winnipeg, Quebec and Tehran converge as one.
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Venice 2024 preview: Screen’s guide to Horizons titles

Screen Daily 23 Aug 2024
Contact. The Party Film Sales  Carissa (S Afr) ... The Farsi- and Azerbaijani-­language film reunites Jafar Panahi and Saeivar as co-writers, after the duo won Cannes’ best screenplay award in 2018 with .

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