Iran to host female filmmakers event

A festival of French and Iranian female filmmakers has been scheduled to be held in the Iranian capital city of Tehran.

The Iranian Artists Forum will hold the six-day festival starting on Monday, November 27, the forum announced on Friday.

Six Iranian and six French movies will be reviewed during the event, with the attendance of special guests and dignitaries.

French Ambassador François Sénémaud, filmmakers Rakhshan Bani-Etemad from Iran, and Marianne Tardieu and Lidia Terki, both from France, will deliver speeches during the opening ceremony.

Films ‘Tales’ by Bani-Etemad and ‘Qui vive’ (‘Insurance’) by Tardieu are selected to be screened on the first day of the festival.

Workshops will be held on the sidelines of the opening day, hosted by Terki and Tardieu.

Tuesday’s schedule includes a screening of Julie Bertuccelli’s ‘La cour de Babel’ (‘School of Babel’) and Puran Derakhshandeh’s ‘Hush! Girls Don’t Scream’.

‘Facing Mirrors’ by Negar Azarbaijani and ‘Bird People’ by Pascale Ferran have been scheduled to screen on Wednesday.

Thursday’s event includes screenings of ‘Two Women’ by Tahmineh Milani and ‘L’avenir’ ('Things to Come’) by Mia Hansen Love, while Friday’s schedule includes ‘Nahid’ by Ida Panahandeh and ‘La vie domestique’ (‘Domestic Life’) by Isabelle Czajka.

The closing screening on Saturday includes ‘Paris la blanche’ by Terki and ‘Track 143’ by Narges Abyar.

Several master classes have also been arranged on the sidelines of the festival.

The cultural festival is organized in collaboration with the Embassy of France in Tehran.

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