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Dayton Jewish International Film Festival opens Thursday

Springfield News-Sun 30 May 2023

Stories of family, injustice, love, religion, politics and war encompass the 23rd annual Dayton Jewish International Film Festival slated June 1-29 across three Dayton area venues. Presented by the Jewish Community Center of Greater Dayton, the festival will feature 11 films including American and foreign films ... The closing film, “Farewell, Mr.

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S.P. Hinduja, British-Indian billionaire with a global business empire, dies at 87

News India Times 25 May 2023

Banner of company website following the death of S.P. Hinduja. PHOTO. @hindujagroup.com. Srichand Parmanand Hinduja, 87, born in November 1935, passed away May 17, 2023, in London ... (Mr ... S.P ... “He joined his father’s business in Iran, helping gain the sole license to import Bollywood films and dub them into Farsi,” The Post noted ... Om Shanthi.” ... S.

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Shelflife: Build your family tree or visit with the mayor at Missoula Public Library

Missoulian 21 May 2023

YMCA Yoga at the Library. Missoula Public Library is thrilled to partner with Missoula Family YMCA to offer free yoga at the library! Focus on basic yoga postures, alignment principles, and breathing techniques that help balance, strengthen, and stretch the body ... Nowhere to go ... This film will be presented in Persian/Farsi with English subtitles ... .

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Build your family tree or visit with mayor

Missoulian 21 May 2023

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Cannes: Mohammad Rasoulof Banned From Leaving Iran to Join Un Certain Regard Jury

The Hollywood Reporter 04 May 2023

Acclaimed Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof has been prevented from leaving the country to attend the Cannes Film Festival to serve on the Un Certain Regard jury ... Movies Nigerian Media Mogul Mo Abudu Launches New Cinema Label, Directs First Short Films ... He has been banned from making films and, for the past 6 years, from leaving the country.

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Mena Massoud carves out his own path with ‘Evolving Vegan’ after post-'Aladdin' slump

North Shore News 31 Mar 2023

Despite the film going on to gross over $1 billion worldwide, he would later publicly express his struggle with landing auditions ... “It’s in every project we do, I mean we just produced a Stephen King short story that was all in the Farsi language, and that’s what sets us apart from many in Hollywood," he said, referring to the film "The Last King .".

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President Biden selects Herro Mustafa Garg as Ambassador to Egypt

News India Times 30 Mar 2023

Herro Mustafa Garg with her husband Ravneesh Garg, and children ... Mustafa Garg grew up in North Dakota and speaks Kurdish, Arabic, Farsi, Greek, Hindi, Bulgarian, and Portuguese. Her family story is the subject of the documentary film, American Herro, and in 2021 she was honored by the Carnegie Corporation as one of the Great Immigrants of America ... .

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President Biden Announces Intent to Nominate Key Role for the Department of State

The White House 29 Mar 2023

Previously, she was the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S ... Mustafa Garg grew up in North Dakota and speaks Kurdish, Arabic, Farsi, Greek, Hindi, Bulgarian, and Portuguese. Her family story is the subject of the documentary film, American Herro, and in 2021 she was honored by the Carnegie Corporation as one of the Great Immigrants of America ... ### ....

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The Red Suitcase: The false narrative of fleeing for freedom

The New Arab 24 Mar 2023

Subtle cultural cues, such as the inauthentic way the protagonist wears her hijab, or her Farsi signature that seems more akin to a first grader’s than a budding artist’s, reinforce that the audience for this film is not an Iranian one who see their struggles against theocracy reflected, but rather a Western one unable to note the difference.

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Naseeruddin Shah on misinformation about Akbar in history books and why it's difficult to make historicals in India: 'You run the risk of offending people'

Indian Express 28 Feb 2023

'I suppose they are difficult because you have to take sides ... Yeah ... 'The divine faith was then translated into Farsi as Din-e Elahi, it's not a term Akbar ever used. It's like those South Indian films which are remade in Hindi and then remade in the South! That was the big discovery about Akbar that I made, and I had to speak to the writers about it ... .

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Berlin: Spanish Drama ‘Ivan & Hadoum’ Wins Euroimages Co-Production Award

The Hollywood Reporter 23 Feb 2023

Several films screening at this year’s Berlin Film Festival had their beginnings at the Co-Production Market, including competition titles 20,000 Species of Bees by Estibaliz Urresola, Panorama entries The Siren from Sepideh Farsi and Matria by Alvaro Gago, and Generation ...

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Berlinale: Jury president Kristen Stewart joins filmmakers' rally against Iran regime

The National 19 Feb 2023

Extraction actress Golshifteh Farahani, also a member of the jury, The Siren director Sepideh Farsi, and Holy Spider actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi were among several Iranian filmmakers and talents participating in the protests ... Speaking to Variety about her film The Siren, Farsi said.

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Javed Akhtar in Lahore: Children in sub-continent learning English at cost of their mother tongue, banning words making language and culture poorer

Indian Express 19 Feb 2023

Akhtar, whose song \u2018Sandese aate hain\u2019 from the film Border is still popular in both India and Pakistan, said, \u201cFor instance, Punjabi is written in Gurmukhi, Farsi and even Devnagri but it remains Punjabi. In our Hindi film posters, such as Pathaan, the name might be written in English alphabets but Pathaan is not an English word.

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Berlinale film stars show solidarity with Iran protesters

FX Empire 18 Feb 2023

“The regime’s time is over,” Sepideh Farsi told Reuters on the red carpet ... Some of those present at the demonstration – including Farsi, whose animation film “The Siren” opened on Thursday, and the award-winning director Farzad Pak – held up placards emblazoned with the Kurdish revolutionary slogan “Jin, Jîyan, Azadî” (Woman, Life, Freedom).

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Berlin: Independents Plan a New Future for Iranian Cinema

The Hollywood Reporter 18 Feb 2023

The newly-formed Iranian Independent Filmmakers Association (IIFA) has taken over the Iran stand at Berlin’s European Film Market, traditionally run by the country’s state-backed film board after the EFM banned any association with connections to the Tehran regime from attending.