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October 23-27, 2000 / Aban 2-6, 1379
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Friday
October 27, 2000
Taqvaie shooting new film soon
Tehran (Aftab-e Yazd) -- Nasser Taqvaie, the director of "Daee
Jan Napoleon" TV series, is returning to filmmaking. His next film,
a comedy called "Roya" will begin shooting in early winter >>>
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"Drunken horses" No. 1 in Vienna fest
Tehran (Aftab-e Yazd) -- "Time for drunken horses" sold the
most tickets among 160 films shown at the Vienna Film Festival >>> FULL
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Panahi: Conscienece come first
Tehran (Aftab-e Yazd) -- "The circle" director Jafar Panahi
says he did not make a dark film about women in Iran just because it would
grab attention at film festivals. "My conscience comes first,"
he says >>>
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* Taqvaie shooting new film soon
* "Drunken horses" No. 1 in Vienna fest
* Panahi: Conscienece come first
* BBC special series: Iranian performing arts
* Youth film fest kicks off
* Basiji boys, the TV series
* Soroush's Rumi lectures in U.S.
* More books being published
* Eliminating some Persian lit books from konkoor
* Winners at Isfahan film fest
* Big names absent in Isfahan
* Film couple mistreated, angry reaction
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Thursday
October 26, 2000
BBC special series: Iranian performing arts
BBC Persian Service -- A unique 22-part series narrated by the distinguished
photographer and film maker, Shahrokh Golestan, begins on BBC World Service
next month and will mark the 60th anniversary of the Persian service. The
series, Performing Arts of Iran, celebrates Iran's enduring cultural identity
and tells the story of the country's resilient dramatic art - from the
passion plays and fertility rites of ancient Persia which are still captivating
Iranians in towns and villages today, to comic improvisation, traditional
dances, operettas and experimental and modern Iranian theatre >>> FULL TEXT
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Youth film fest kicks off
Tehran (Hamshahri) -- The 17th international youth film festival began
in Tehran today. The event is huge, with many promising young filmmakers
trying to make a name for themselves. Some 161 women submitted films >>>
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Basiji boys, the TV series
Tehran (Jam-e Jam) -- The lives of boy soldiers in the Iran-Iraq war
is the subject of a 13-part TV series which will soon air on Iranian television
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Wednesday
October 25, 2000
Remembering Moshiri "that wonderful man"
Tehran, (Hayat-e No) -- Authors and poets recall moemories of Fereydoun
Moshiri >>>
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Arts fest awards painters
Tehran, (Hayat-e No) -- Soudabeh Mir-Fassih is among the winners of
the contemporary arts festival in Tehran. Other award-winning painters
include Mostafa dareh-Baghi and Pooya Aryanpour >>>
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What's showing in Tehran?
Tehran, (Hayat-e No) -- "A time for drunken horses", a winner
at Cannes, is now showing in theaters in Tehran. At 400,000 tomans per
day, box offce earnings are not great, but they are better than expected
for a film that does not have a popular theme >>>
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Monday
October 23, 2000
Winners at Isfahan film fest
Tehran, (Aftab-e Yazd) -- Bahman Qobadi's "A time for drunken horses"
won the best feature film award at the the international children's film
festival in Isfahan. Here are the other winners >>>
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Big names absent in Isfahan
Tehran, (Aftab-e Yazd) -- Film actor Mohammad Kasebi has been a jury
member at Isfahan's international children's film festival for the past
six years. This year, he says, quality suffered because of the absence
of many prominant filmmakers >>>
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Film couple mistreated, angry reaction
Tehran, (Aftab-e Yazd) -- Security forces at the Isfahan film festival
mistreat a film director and his wife, drawing angry reactions from other
filmmakers and the audience >>>
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