‘Aparat’ to appear at Mindanao fest in the Philippines

The 19th Mindanao Film Festival in the Philippines is to play host to Iranian film ‘Aparat’.

Written, produced and directed by Hassan Najmabadi, the short film is about six teenage boys in a remote village who decide to work in the corrals in order to raise the money they need to rent an 8-mm movie projector from a tour guide.  

The cast list of ‘Aparat’ includes Mehdi Qolizadeh, Ebrahim Najmabadi, Emad Mohebbi, Abolfazl Najmabadi, Amir Najmabadi, Amir-Mohammad Najmabadi, Mohammad-Reza Najmabadi, Zari Najmabadi, and Mehdi Rezaee.

‘Aparat’ has already been screened at the 24th Faludi Int’l Film Festival in Hungary, the 2021 Batumi Int’l Art-House Film Festival (BIAFF) in Georgia, the 11th Gold Coast Film Festival in the US, the 2021 Arlington Int’l Film Festival in the US, the 30th KIDS First! Film Festival in New Mexico, the 12th MikroFAF Film Festival in Serbia and the 41st VGIK Int’l Student Festival in Russia.

Tracing its roots to 2003, the Mindanao Film Festival is the longest-running regional film festival in the Philippines and the longest-running independent film festival in the country.

Starting out as the Guerrilla Filmmaking Festival, it was eventually referred to as the Mindanao Film Festival in 2005.

The 2021 edition of the festival will be held on December 6-13.

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