Iranian ‘Kupal’ to go to Polish New Horizons

Iranian feature ‘Kupal’ has been selected to go on screen at the 2018 edition of the New Horizons International Film Festival in Poland.

The Polish event will screen the Iranian film three times on July 28-29 and August 3.

Directed by Kazem Mollaie, ‘Kupal’ narrates the story of Dr. Ahmad Kupal, who is a taxidermist hunter, when he faces a challenge just before the New Year.

The main cast of the movie is the late actor Levon Haftvan and a smart dog named Sharon plays a key role.

Nazanin Farahani, Pourya Rahimi-Sam, and Hossein Shamsabadi are also among the notable cast of Mollaie’s flick.

Mollaie’s feature film debut attended the competitive section of the Fajr Film Festival in February 2017 and recently won the best feature award at the ‘Around’ Film Festival in Amsterdam, the best foreign film award at the 26th Berkeley Video & Film Festival in the US, and the 16th Ischia Film Festival in Italy.

Attending the Cine Pobre Film Festival in Mexico and the 4th Iranian Film Festival of Zurich in Switzerland, as well as winning Best Cinematography Award from the 5th Fine Arts Film Festival in the US and Best Cinematography award at the 3rd Realtime International Film Festival in Nigeria are among the most recent achievements by ‘Kupal’.

The Iranian-Armenian Haftvan died March 10 at the age of 51 following an incident which occurred on the set of a new production he was shooting.

Launched in 2001, the New Horizons Film Festival is an international event held annually in July and/or August in Wrocław, Poland.

It is one of the biggest and most popular film festivals in Poland. The festival mainly presents art-house cinema. The most important from the several competitions held at the festival is the "New horizons international competition".

It aims to present bold, unconventional and uncompromising films that are searching for the new forms of expression – "the new horizons of cinema".

The 2018 edition of the New Horizons is slated for July 26-August 5.

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