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Iranian Film Festival in
Zurich To honor Dariush
Mehrjui
Tehran Times, May 24, 2017
TEHRAN – Veteran Iranian filmmaker Dariush Mehrjui
will be honored for his lifetime achievements during the 3rd Iranian Film
Festival in Zurich (01 — 07 June, 2017), Switzerland.
He will be awarded a Golden Cyrus Cylinder at the
opening ceremony of the weeklong festival on June 1, the organizers
announced.
They also plan to screen Dariush
Mehrjui's acclaimed movies “The
Cow” and “Leila”
in a special program.

Dariush
Mehrjui, born on 8 December 1939 in Tehran, is an Iranian director,
screenwriter, producer, film editor and a member of the Iranian Academy of the
Arts.
Mehrjui was a founding member of the Iranian New Wave movement of the early
1970s. His second film, The
Cow (Gaav), is considered to be the first film of this
movement, which also included Masoud Kimiai and Nasser Taqvai.
 Dariush
Mehrjui's acclaimed movies “The
Cow” and “Leila”
Most
of his films are inspired by literature and adapted from Iranian and foreign
novels and plays. Modern Iranian cinema begins with Dariush Mehrjui. Mehrjui
introduced realism, symbolism, and the sensibilities of art cinema.
His
films have some resemblance with those of Rosselini, De Sica and Satyajit Ray,
but he also added something distinctively Iranian, in the process starting one
of the greatest modern film waves.
Since his film The Cow in 1969, Mehrjui, along with Nasser Taqvai and Masoud
Kimiai, has been instrumental in paving the way for the Iranian cinematic
renaissance, so called the „Iranian New Wave.“
Awards
Mehrjui has received 49 national and international awards including:
– Golden Seashell, San Sebastián International Film Festival 1993.
– Silver Hugo, Chicago International Film Festival 1998.
– Crystal Simorgh, Fajr Film Festival 2004.

The festival also plans to pay tribute to legendary Iranian
filmmaker Abbas
Kiarostami by screening “76 Minutes and
15 Seconds with Abbas Kiarostami”, a montage film made by
Kiarostami’s close friend Seifollah Samadian, and
Kiarostami’s last film “Take Me
Home”.
A lineup of Iranian films has been selected for screening in the official
competition.
Among the films are “Being Born” by Mohsen
Abdolvahab , “Inversion”
by Behnam
Behzadi, “Polaris” by Sudabeh Moradian , “Breath” by Narges Abyar and “A Long
Day” by Babak Bahrambeigi.

The lineup also includes “I”
by Soheil Beiraqi, “Life+1
Day” by Saeid Rustai,
“Blind Spot” by Mehdi Golestaneh, and “The Descendants” by Yaser Talebi.
(ABU/YAW)
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The 2017
edition of the Iranian Film Festival will be dedicated to films on issues of
immigration, integration, and matters related to women in Iran and around the
globe such as honor, solitude, sacrifice, and love. In addition, the festival
will present outstanding films made between 2015 and 2017 about Iran or by
Iranian filmmakers about other countries.
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