India’s JIFF to screen Iranian films

Two Iranian films have been picked to compete at the International Film Festivals section of the Jaipur International Film Festival (JIFF) in India.

The festival will screen the Iranian short fiction ‘Born in Mordad’, directed by Farzad Rahmani, on Saturday, May 20.

The film depicts a poor and ill mother with a baby who is unable to cry. Longing to hear her baby’s cry and neglecting her own illness, she tries to provide money to find a cure for her baby, but her fate does not follow her wishes.

The other Iranian short fiction to compete at the Indian event is ‘The Guy Came on Horseback’, directed by Hossein Rabiei-Dasrjerdi.

The 15-minute flick is about a rural man and his son. When the rural man became aware of the truth that his disabled son has fallen in love with their neighbor's daughter, he decides to work on it.

A total of 23 films out of more than 750 titles from all over the world are nominated to go on screen at the JIFF's 2nd Sixteen International Film Festivals – 16IFF.

The 1st Sixteenth International Film Festival (16IFF) organized by Jaipur International Film Festival (JIFF) awarded five Iranian films.

‘The Return’ by Mohammad-Amin Hamedani, ‘The Heritage’ by Abbas Khosrojerdi and Manizheh Seraj, ‘Shakhovan’ by Mahtab Sedaqat, ‘Confined Space’ by Siamak Ahmadi, and ‘Seven Stanza’ by Mojgan Nikravesh were the Iranian winners of the previous edition of the festival.

The 2017 edition of the 16IFF is slated for May 17-21 in Jaipur.

MG/AI