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Iranian Films Fly to 3 Countries
an article by Kourosh Ziabari
Three Iranian films are planned to be screened in international
film festivals of Portugal, Germany and Tunisia in the next days. The
Iranian cinema is a unique one of its type because of its exclusive
properties. It is empty from violence, immorality, affronts and insults
and discourtesy.
Thanks to the new generation of directors, actors and actresses who has
been introduced to the Persian artistic community after the 1979
Islamic revolution, the Iranian cinema is flourishing everyday and
gaining a considerable international credit.
It is said that Iran is a cradle of arts and cultural endeavors because
of its history, 7500 years of booked civilization. This can be said
because of the outstanding poets that the country has presented to the
world. Mevlana, Ferdowsi, Hafez and Rudaki.
Entertainment and spirituality are mixed in the Iranian cinema and it
prevents the families, children or the youth to be offended by watching
a 90 minutes movie while helping them to improve their ethics, mental
health and happiness. That is why the Iranian films and movies are very
popular in the countries with traditional customs and noble culture
like South Korea, Bulgaria, Russia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Venezuela and
Persian Gulf countries as well.
Today, Iran enjoys some renowned and notable artists in the field of
cinema such as the famous female director Niki Karimi, the award
winning producer Abbas Kiarostami and Majid Majidi, the international
spiritual filmmaker as well.
Elnaz Shakerdoost, the famous Iranian actress
Furthermore, Golshifte Farahani is the first Iranian actress who
ever co-played with Leonardo DiCaprio for a Hollywood film, being
ranked alongside Pegah Agangarani, Tarane Alidoosti and Elnaz
Shakerdoost as the most successful Iranian female actresses.
The latest reports show that the Iranian films are slated to be
screened in three international film festivals worldwide: Negar
Azarbaijani's "Virtual Truth" will be displayed at 2008 Lisbon
International Horror Film Festival, Asqar Farhadi's "Fireworks
Wednesday" will participate in the Carthage International Film festival
in Tunisia and Saman Salour's "From the Land of Silence" is planned to
be screened at Germany's Around the World in 14 Films Festival.
Another achievement for the Iranian cinema in recent weeks was that the
World-renowned Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has received the
Glory to the Filmmaker award at the 65th Venice Film Festival.
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Latest reader comment:
In
response to the question, "Does Persian culture contribute to a culture
of peace," today, I have a simple question of you. Try to imagine a
woven piece of "Gold" with its warps and woofs made of cotton and fuzz
while its various forming colors resemble a heavenward garden full of
wonderful trees, flowers and plants!
In my view, the question is
too ordinary to be answered! Any wise man will instantly find it out
that “carpet” is the keyword; a loom-woven, felted textile that is
being used to cover the floor of halls, rooms and mostly to decorate
walls, roofs and palms in favor of those who love elegance, dainty and
grace.
But what do you know about the origin of this apparently
worthless rug that never attracts anyone and slightly thrown off under
your feet being trampled thousands of times each day by you and your
family members?
Carpet’s origin of foundation is Iran and its
history of production dates back to about 5th century BC when the
Achaemenidan Empire was ruling.
The oldest documented carpet of
the world is called Pazyryk that has been woven by the order of Cyrus
the great in 500 BC in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz and still
survives, archaeologists say.
Persian culture since the
beginning of its perfection during the 600s BC until today is totally
associated with some distinguished arts such as miniature, calligraphy
and carpet weaving, so we can claim that these precious arts are
considered as the symbols of Persian civilization, in fact.
To
the other words, Most of the people who don’t have much information
about Iran and its luminous history are closely familiar with the
outputs of Persian culture such as its performing and decorative arts.
Carpets
are some applicable proofs for the claim that Persian productions are
widely being used throughout the world regardless to their nationality.
Saffron
and tea are also in the same conditions while originated from Iran but
the majority of their international users do not know about the
birthplace of these treasure floras.
However we have to keep in mind that Iran is a cradle of carpets and rugs production.
The
world’s most professional masters of carpet-weaving are currently
working inside traditional looms and workshops of Persian ancient
cities such as Kashan, Tabriz, Yazd, Isfahan and Qom and their powerful
hands manipulating wools, silk, cotton, chords and yarns to finally
ensue the dazzling results that we spread under our feet unconcernedly.
The
carpets of highest quality are often woven by hand whereas machine-made
carpets gain less quality, credibility and artistic value, so the most
people try to pay more so as to buy the hand-woven carpets.
It
is necessary to add that the average of time needed for a beautiful
illustrated carpet to come out (by hand) is approximately 400 hours and
it undoubtedly shows the pure struggles of painstaking weavers who form
the carpet knots with their sense of responsibility, love and talent.
Carpets
are the most popular souvenirs in Persia and families who want to
dispatch gifts to their relatives outside Iran will always choose
small-sized tufted or needlefelt carpets with fantastic warp and weft
threads which shape spectacular sights of natural and ancient scenes.
The
most-used designs for carpets are consisted of abstract natural
landscapes ornamented by warm and almost red-spectrum colors.
The
dominant equipment used for carpet weaving process are still the
traditional instruments of past centuries such as spun and spindles.
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