Germany opens Iranian film festival

German city of Munich has opened a festival of Iranian films set outside Iranian capital city of Tehran, especially in southern parts of the country.

Süddeutsche Zeitung, a south German daily newspaper wrote about the festival that “Iranian cinema in Germany is mostly known with filmmakers such as … Abbas Kiarostami, but the festival of Iranian films in Munich has emphasized on other directors. The festival has focused on Iranian films made out of Tehran and in the south of the country.”

“Silvia Baer, the festival’s director, has been interested to screen movies on the ethnic groups and different lifestyles of a geostrategic region in the Middle East and the Persian Gulf,” the newspaper added.

The festival’s opening film includes ‘Gesher’ directed by Vahid Vakilifar, a movie about the life of workers at a natural gas field in the southern Iranian city of Boushehr who wish for a better life.

The German event will also screen ‘I’m Not a Woman’ directed by Hossein Abbasi, a documentary about the routine life of an Iranian woman who lives like a man near the Iran-Iraq border.

Another movie to hit the silver screen at the event is a film about a small Muslim tribe in Iran’s Hormozgan Province with African traditions, such as dancing, music, and arts.

The event opened on Wednesday is scheduled to continue screening Iranian films until next Sunday.

MG/AG