Mahdi Asghari Azghadi was born in 1995 in Mashhad. He earned a bachelor's degree in film directing and a master's degree in cinema from the city's University of the Arts. He is also a member of the National Elite Foundation of Iran. He is writing his thesis on the theme of combining different genres in a single film. He is a well-known film professor in Iran and runs a prestigious film school in Tehran, the Clapp Film School. He writes and directs television films and programs. He is also the author of a novel Degh-Marg, which means Tragic Death. “Maria” is his first feature-length fiction film.
On the occasion of Maria screening at Fica Vesoul, we speak with him about the real story behind the movie, the women in the film, the bad impact of cinema, casting, the most difficult scene to shoot, the success of the film in Tokyo, and...
On the occasion of Maria screening at Fica Vesoul, we speak with him about the real story behind the movie, the women in the film, the bad impact of cinema, casting, the most difficult scene to shoot, the success of the film in Tokyo, and...
- 2/16/2024
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Picture Tree Intl. has acquired Iranian genre crossover feature “Without Her,” and will introduce the film to buyers during the upcoming European Film Market at its Marriot Hotel located office in Berlin. The film’s trailer is debuting with Variety (below).
In Arian Vazirdaftari’s feature debut, Roya is getting ready to emigrate from Iran when she meets a quiet young woman who appears lost and doesn’t remember anything. Roya takes her in, providing her with a home and introducing her to her husband, family and friends – all the while blissfully unaware that this woman has come to replace her.
The storyline of a woman losing her identity dives into the genre tradition of Hitchcock, Polanski and De Palma, while connecting it with the tradition of social realism in Iranian cinema, Picture Tree Intl. said in a statement, with gripping performances from Iranian actors Tannaz Tabatabaei, Saber Abar and Shadi Karamroudi.
In Arian Vazirdaftari’s feature debut, Roya is getting ready to emigrate from Iran when she meets a quiet young woman who appears lost and doesn’t remember anything. Roya takes her in, providing her with a home and introducing her to her husband, family and friends – all the while blissfully unaware that this woman has come to replace her.
The storyline of a woman losing her identity dives into the genre tradition of Hitchcock, Polanski and De Palma, while connecting it with the tradition of social realism in Iranian cinema, Picture Tree Intl. said in a statement, with gripping performances from Iranian actors Tannaz Tabatabaei, Saber Abar and Shadi Karamroudi.
- 1/31/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: In an unusual move, but one that speaks to fluidity in the distribution landscape and increasing demand for foreign-language series, LA-based film firm The Exchange is launching world sales (excluding Iran) at the upcoming Cannes virtual market on hit Iranian TV series The Frog.
The series follows Ramin, a man dissatisfied with a life of low-paying petty crime in Tehran, who determines with friends to rob an enormously wealthy former classmate. However, the theft goes fatally awry and Ramin finds himself entangled in a dangerous web of deceit involving the police, local gangsters, and greedy family members.
It’s rare for TV series to be launched at film markets. But the very concept of a market has been fraying in recent years, especially in the Covid era. Sales increasingly take place across the year and traditional film companies are increasingly working in TV.
The Exchange has also boarded remake...
The series follows Ramin, a man dissatisfied with a life of low-paying petty crime in Tehran, who determines with friends to rob an enormously wealthy former classmate. However, the theft goes fatally awry and Ramin finds himself entangled in a dangerous web of deceit involving the police, local gangsters, and greedy family members.
It’s rare for TV series to be launched at film markets. But the very concept of a market has been fraying in recent years, especially in the Covid era. Sales increasingly take place across the year and traditional film companies are increasingly working in TV.
The Exchange has also boarded remake...
- 6/11/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Iranian avant-garde theatre director Homayoun Ghanizadeh, after years of staging plays, decided to try his hand also at a different medium, to a maverick and pleasingly dotty result. “The Hairy Tale” (Maskharehbaz) however is not his first rendezvous with the tenth muse, as he starred in Mani Haghighi’s “The Dragon Arrives!” (2016), which screened in Berlinale’s main competition and in 2018 he directed the short movie “Irreversible”.
“A Hairy Tale” screened at the 35th Warsaw Film Festival
Ghanizadeh’s debut feature, which premiered internationally at the 35th Warsaw Film Festival where it was awarded for the script, in the catalogue description is labeled as a “black comedy”. The director skillfully juggles with dark humor paraphernalia and joins them with a dream-like convention, use of specific camera angles, CGI and color palette, drawing parallels with Jean-Pierre Jeunet. But behind the facade of entertaining form, he sneaks in the bitter observations and addresses important social issues.
“A Hairy Tale” screened at the 35th Warsaw Film Festival
Ghanizadeh’s debut feature, which premiered internationally at the 35th Warsaw Film Festival where it was awarded for the script, in the catalogue description is labeled as a “black comedy”. The director skillfully juggles with dark humor paraphernalia and joins them with a dream-like convention, use of specific camera angles, CGI and color palette, drawing parallels with Jean-Pierre Jeunet. But behind the facade of entertaining form, he sneaks in the bitter observations and addresses important social issues.
- 11/8/2019
- by Joanna Kończak
- AsianMoviePulse
In “Tale of the Sea,” the drama of lyrical despair that’s the opening-night film of the 1st Iranian Film Festival New York, the venerable Iranian filmmaker Bahman Farmanara, who wrote and directed the movie and also stars in it, plays Taher, an esteemed novelist who has just spent three years in a mental institution. Farmanara, now in his mid-70s, has a hangdog scowl, small burning eyes, and a jowly fleshy severity that makes him look like a literary-lion version of Charles Laughton. You wouldn’t exactly say his face lights up with feeling, but that doesn’t mean he’s not expressing anything. He has a world-weariness that tips into tenderness, and the silent haunted demeanor of someone who has grown used to seeing ghosts.
Taher is known to his acolytes as “Maestro,” and that word speaks volumes about his changing place in society. Thirty years ago, it...
Taher is known to his acolytes as “Maestro,” and that word speaks volumes about his changing place in society. Thirty years ago, it...
- 1/10/2019
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Tale Of The Sea (Hekayat-e Darya) Reviewed for Shockya.com and BigAppleReviews.net by: Harvey Karten Director: Bahman Farmanara Screenwriter: Bahman Farmanara Cast: Bahman Farmanara, Fatemeh Motemad Arya, Leila Hatami, Saber Abar, Ali Nassirian Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 1/ Opens: January 10, 2019 at the First Iranian International Film Festival in NY: At IFC Center, 323 […]
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- 1/10/2019
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
About Elly (Darbareye Elly) Cinema Guild Reviewed by: Harvey Karten for Shockya. Databased on Rotten Tomatoes. Grade: B+ Director: Asghar Farhadi Screenplay: Asghar Farhadi, story by Azad Jafarian Cast: Golshifteh Farahani, Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti, Merila Zare’I, Mani Haghighi, Peyman Moaadi, Ra’na Azadivar, Ahmad Mehranfar, Saber Abbar Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 4/4/15 Opens: April 9, 2015 There may be cultural differences between Americans and people in the non-Western world, but one truth is universal: thou shalt not lie. Lying may get you somewhere in the short run, but ultimately as Walter Scott said, “Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.” Not to be [ Read More ]
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- 4/10/2015
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
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