Romanian film festival to screen Iranian ‘Immortality’

The 16th edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF) has scheduled to screen Iranian feature film ‘Immortality’.

Directed by Mehdi Fard-Qaderi, the Iranian flick will go on screen at the No Limit section of the Romanian event.

‘Immortality’ is Fard-Qaderi's first feature film that depicts events happening on a train during a rainy night.

It tells the story of six different families on different wagons of the train, gradually unfolding their stories.

“When I try to imagine you, I feel kind of immortality; when I call you, I feel kind of immortality; when I look at you, I feel kind of immortality; when I touch you, I feel kind of immortality; when I smell you, again I feel kind of immortality,” the film’s synopsis reads.

Fard-Qaderi's 145-minute film experienced its first international screening last year at Rome Film Festival in Italy.

Notable among the cast are Anna Nemati, Manouchehr Alipour, Alireza Ostadi, Soudabeh Bayzai, Maral Farjad, Atabak Naderi and Sana Norouzbeigi.

Founded in 2002 by the Romanian Film Promotion, TIFF has grown rapidly to become the most important film-related event in the country.

TIFF is the first international feature film festival in Romania, which is held annually in the historic capital of Transylvania, Cluj-Napoca.

In 2011, Transilvania IFF was accredited by the FIAPF, which places it among the 40 most important festivals in the world.

MG/AI