US festival to host Iran film

Narges Abyar’s film ‘Breath’ is to be screened at the Mill Valley Film Festival in the US.

The Iran-Iraq war drama will vie at the 40th edition of the American event in its 33rd international screening.

Mill Valley festival will host Abyar’s award-winning movie in a section dedicated to foreign language films introduced to the Academy Awards.

‘Breath’ depicts the daily life of a daydreaming little girl, Bahar, and her persistent efforts to discover the world so she can experience life with all its sweetness and bitterness in her own way.

Bahar loves reading books as it helps her to tolerate the harshness of the world around her. She mixes fairy tales with real events as her life revolves around two turning points in the temporary history of Iran, the revolution and the war.

Though in Bahar’s imaginative world these events are marginal, but the war with its absolute certainty, imposes its reality on the unruly imagination of the little girl.

The Mill Valley Film Festival is an annual American film festival founded in 1977.

Each year the festival welcomes more than 200 filmmakers, representing more than 50 countries.

The event started on January 5 and will run until January 11, 2018.

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