In This Issue

NEWS IN IRANIAN CINEMA:
The movie week of  “Armenians and Iranian Cinema”/ 10 theaters inaugurated/ Outlook of Duthch documentary cinema in Tehran and Isfahan/ The first screening of 10 on ten in Iran/ 19th Isfahan Children Film Festival/ Tex exemption for Iranian Filmmakers/ Iranian Filmmakers lament limitations/ Judging academy of the Iran Cinema Festival/ Public screening of Iranian films in the world.

FACES:
Abbas Kiarostami/ Mohsen Makhmalbaf / Kioumars Pourahmad/ Nasser Taqvaei/ Alireza Davoud-Nejad/ Bahman Farmanara/ Bahman Qobadi/THE DECEASED: Hossein Panahi/ Mohammad Reza Sarhangi/ Amin Amini/ Ali Mortazavi/ Loric Minassian/ Noureddin Ashtiani.

ANNALASIS
For All the Screenplay Writer: Jean-Cloude Carriere’s Screenplay Writing Workshop in Tehran/ Theoretician, Not Artist: 10 on Ten by Abbas Kiarostami/ A Cruel Display of Wounds: The Passion of the Christ According to Grunewald/ The War of Satellites: Launching of privately owned TV network for Iranian cinema/ A Fight in the Sun: First Time Directors and Digital Cinema.

FACE TO FACE
Abstract images, line and colour: Interview with Ebrahim Hatami-Kia about his latest movie, Coloured in Purple/ What part of the city is beautiful?: An interview with Asghar Farhadi, the director and screenplay writer of Shahr-e Ziba/ The Entire World Is My Home: Interview with Marziye Meshkini, Director of Stray Dogs/ A Human Drama, Not an Ethnographic Documentary: An Interview with Vadim Perelman The director of House of Sand and Fog/ I Was Born with Music: Interview with Tony Gatlif, the director of Exils, winner of the best directing award at Cannes 2004.

DREAMBOAT
57th Cannes Film Festival: A Troublesome Palme d'Or/ 57th Locarno film festival:Changes for the Better in Locarno 2004/ 23rd Istanbul Film Festival: A Festival of Varieties.

FILM REVIEW
10 on Ten (Abbas Kiarostami): An attempt to return the auteur to the text/ Mom's Guest (Dariush Mehrjui): Bitter and Sweet/ Shahr-e Ziba (Asghar Farhadi): Tale of a City/ House of Sand and Fog (Vadim Perelman):A House on the Water/ Waiting for the Clouds (Yesim Ustaoglu): Waiting for a Precious Cinema/ Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore): War No Moore/ The Passion of the Christ (Mel Gibson): A Sledgehammer to the Mind

Film International
Iranian Film Quarterly (ISSN 1021-6510)
President & Publisher: Massoud Mehrabi / Editors: Bahman Taheri, Houshang Golmakani, Abbas Yari, Massoud Mehrabi / Translaors: Tourani, Mozhgan Jalali, Sohrab Soori, Ali Mehran, Zohreh Khatibi, Mahmoud Khoshchehreh / Contributors: Shahzad Rahmati, Ali Mosleh-Heidarzadeh / Advertisements: Mohammad Mohammadian /Art Director: Babak Kassiri
Publishing Date: September 2004
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