Reviewed at the 2010 Abu Dhabi Film Festival.
In the Q&A after our screening of "Gesher," a man demanded to know what the director's intentions were with the film -- "I was not entertained," he announced. Another audience member fought back at the inappropriateness of making that observation in such a forum, and thing dissolved into an excellently combative discussion. It was entirely appropriate for the movie, which is a comedy in the primarily theoretical way that, for instance, David Gordon Green's "Undertow" is an action flick. Director Vahid Vakilifar was inspired to make "Gesher," his first feature, after he saw migrant workers living in unused pipes by the side of a refinery in southern Iran, where the Pars Special Energy/Economic Zone -- the Pseez -- encompasses an array of natural gas and petrochemical refineries and almost nothing else.
Jahan (Hossein Farzi-Zadeh), Qobad (Ghobad Rahmanissab) and Nezam (Abdolrassoul Daryapeyma...
In the Q&A after our screening of "Gesher," a man demanded to know what the director's intentions were with the film -- "I was not entertained," he announced. Another audience member fought back at the inappropriateness of making that observation in such a forum, and thing dissolved into an excellently combative discussion. It was entirely appropriate for the movie, which is a comedy in the primarily theoretical way that, for instance, David Gordon Green's "Undertow" is an action flick. Director Vahid Vakilifar was inspired to make "Gesher," his first feature, after he saw migrant workers living in unused pipes by the side of a refinery in southern Iran, where the Pars Special Energy/Economic Zone -- the Pseez -- encompasses an array of natural gas and petrochemical refineries and almost nothing else.
Jahan (Hossein Farzi-Zadeh), Qobad (Ghobad Rahmanissab) and Nezam (Abdolrassoul Daryapeyma...
- 10/20/2010
- by Alison Willmore
- ifc.com
Utv`s production venture `Paan Singh Tomar`, about the soldier-athlete who went on to become a bandit, will have its world premiere at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival, starting Oct 14.Randall Wallace`s "Secretariat" starring Diane Lane and John Malkovich will open the fest and Indian filmmaker Murli Nair`s "Virgin Goat" will be screened in the competition section.The complete line up for the festival was announced here Monday at a press conference at the Abu Dhabi Theater."The Festival as a whole has three big competitions for features. When I say big, I mean they have 14 or 15 films each with very generous prizes of $100,000 for all the major awards. They are for narrative features, documentary features and a new competition called New Horizons, which is open to fiction and non-fiction features by first- and second-time directors from all over the world," said Peter Scarlet,...
- 9/27/2010
- Filmicafe
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