HEIRAN Movie Screening, Feb 28th

02. Feb, 2011 0 Comments

Monday, February 28 · 7:00pm – 9:00pm
UBC Norm Theatre
ROOM 130, 6138 Student Union Blvd.
Vancouver, BC

Heiran

A film by Shalizeh Arefpour

Cast: Khosro Shakibaei, Baran Kosari, Mehrdad Sedighian, Farhad Aslani

…Producer: Rakhshan Bani-Etemad

88min, 2009

Persian with English Sub.

Last performance by Iranian cinema legend, the late Khosro Shakibaei

About the director: Shalizeh Arefpour was born in Tehran in 1970. She is a cinema graduate from the Film-making Training Center. in 1990 she started her cinematic career as a script girl and ever since she has cooperated with many famous cinema and TV filmmakers in 26 movies as a programmer, assistant director, scriptwriter and editor. She has experienced her first film called “The Shadow of Moon” in 2004. She also made 3 documentaries “Under the Skin of Baran” in 2001, “Goal in the Dark” in 2003, and “Inside Me” in 2004. “Heiran is her first feature film for which she is also the scriptwriter.

Synopsis: During the rule of the Taliban in Afghanistan about 3 million Afghans, who were mostly illegal immigrants, entered Iran; causing numerous problems for the Iranian society to accept them. this film is the story of a 17 year old rural girl by the name of Mahi (fish), who comes from a war-stricken family in the southern Iran. Mahi falls in love with an afghan student named Heiran, who has come to their village to work. But Mahi’s family being strictly against her marriage to an Afghan, forces Mahi to choose one between her family and an Afghan lad.

Director’s view of “Heiran”: The thing which can turn an emigrant to a resident, a resident to a dweller and a dweller to an owner is love…Itried to depict the issue of afghan immigrants whose rights are being trampled along with the rights of my countrywomen.

-Durban Int’l Film Festival (22 July – 1 Aug 2010 / South Africa)

-Walker Art Center (25 April 2010 / USA)

-Open Deok Film Festival (23 April – 2 May 2010 / Belgium)

-Tiburon Int’l Film Festival (18 – 26 March 2010 / USA)

-Sguardi Altrove Film Festival (8 – 14 March 2010/ Italy)

-Chennai Women’s Film Festival (1 – 8 March 2010 / India)

-Cine Quest Int’l Film Festival (23 Feb. – 7 March 2010 / USA)

-Museum of Fine Arts, Washington DC (19 – 21 Feb. 2010 / USA)

-UCLA Film & Television Archive (5 Feb. 2010 / USA)

-Stockholm Int’l Film Festival (18 – 29 Nov. 2009 / Sweden)

-Sao Paulo Int’l Film Festival (23 Oct. – 5 Nov. 2009 Brazil)

-Gene Siskel Film Center (17-18 Oct. 2009 / USA)