In This Issue


Editorial: Iranian Cinema and Fajr International  Film Festival: Cinema Thermometer

NEWS In Iranian Cinema:
Iran’s Representative in Oscar Ceremony / Tehran Municipality and Cinema / Diplomatic Protest / Division in Producers’ Union / Viggo Mortensen in Iran / Changes in Festival of Film for Children and Young Adults / Film Screening and Police!/ Iranian Filmmakers Cooperate with Georgian Counterparts / Blind Directors / Films in Subway / The Problem of Film Smuggling / Religious Films Festival / Tehran Animation Festival
NEW PRODUCTS: Mirror (Siamak Shayeghi)/ The Little Green (Gholamreza Ramezani)/ Agonies of the Maiden (Massoud Atyabi)/ The Second Woman (Sirous Alvand)
FACES: Ezzatollah Entezami/ Jamshid Mashayekhi/ Ali Nassirian/ Bahram Baizai/ Dariush Mehrjui/ Yadollah Samadi/ Shirin Neshat/ Hanieh Tavassoli
DECEASED: Parviz Malekzadeh (1944-2006)/ Abdolali Homayoun (1920-2006)/ Ahmad Qadakchian (1920-2006)/ Amir Shervan (1941-2006)/ Farrokh Ghaffari (1921-2006)

BREAKING NEWS:
Iranian Cinema in the 25th Fajr International Film Festival: The Dulcimer Player (Dariush Mehrjui)/ The Boss (Massoud Kimiaei)/ The Night Bus (Kioumars Pourahmad)/ Like a Story (Khosrow Sinai)/ Mainline (Rakhshan Bani-Etemad)/ The Hustler (Alireza Davoudnejad)/ Parkway (Fereidoun Jeirani)/ The Wages of Silence (Maziyar Miri)/ The Magical Generation (Iraj Karimi)/ Music Box (Farzad Motamen)/ For the Sin of What? (Abolqasem Talebi)/ Do You Have More Apples? (Bayram Fazli)/ A Few Days Later (Niki Karimi)/ The Aster of Silent Town (Amir Shahab Razavian)/ The Expelled (Massoud Dehnamaki)/ The Earring (Vahid Mousaeian)/ The Fireman (Mohsen Amir Yousefi)/ Jaani-Gel (People’s Agony) (Jamil Rostami)/ Barefoot in Paradise (Bahram Tavakkoli)

FACE TO FACE: 
Born in War: An interview with Rasoul Molla-Qolipour, another prominent filmmaker of Iran’s war genre

ANALYSIS:
Winter Light: Review on 24 Years of Fajr International Film Festival
The Festivals Garden
From Bombay with Love: The Popular Cinema of India in Post-Revolution Iran
The Green Path: Religious Cinema in Iran
Away from Warfront: War Genre in the Iranian Cinema (Part II)
 
DREAM BOAT:
It Started with Tears: The 54th San Sebastian Film Festival
The Agony of Mixed Feelings: The 31st Toronto International Film Festival
On the Coasts of Love: The 14th Hamburg Film Festival
A Time for Flying: 36th Kyiv (Kiev) International Film Festival (Molodist)
Do All Roads Lead to Rome?: The 1st Rome International Film Festival

Film International Iranian Film Quarterly (ISSN 1021-6510)
President & Publisher: Massoud Mehrabi / Editors: Sohrab Soori, Houshang Golmakani, Abbas Yari, Massoud Mehrabi / Translaors: Behrouz Tourani, Sohrab Soori, Zohreh Khatibi, Contributors: Shahzad Rahmati, / Advertisements: Mohammad Mohammadian /Art Director: Babak Kassiri
Publishing Date: Winter 2006
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