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Oscars: Iran selects ‘Finding Farideh’ for intl. feature category

reporter 1222 — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 07:00:13 +0000

‘Finding Farideh’ was selected as Iran’s entry from the final list of nominees which included ‘Castle of Dreams’ by Reza Mirkarimi, and ‘6.5 Per Meter’ by Saeed Roustayi.

‘Finding Farideh’ is a documentary about an Iranian girl named Farideh, who has been adopted by a Dutch couple 40 years ago, and now she overcomes her fears and travels to her motherland Iran for the first time to meet three families who claim to be her real family, and to find out about her Iranian identity and culture.

The documentary has taken part in a number of international film festivals such as the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in the US, and was selected as best documentary at the 20th Iran Cinema Celebration in Tehran in September 2013.

It is also slated to take part at the 19th Flahertiana International Documentary Film Festival in Russia from September 20 to 26.

Iran’s entry for the previous edition of the Academy Awards was Vahid Jalilvand’s ‘No Date, No Signature’, which failed to make it to the list of nominees.

Iran won the Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language Film in 2017 for ‘The Salesman’ and in 2012 for ‘A Separation’, both of which directed by acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi.

The 92nd Academy Awards are slated to be held on February 9, 2020.

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‘Finding Farideh’ goes to Flahertiana filmfest. in Russia

reporter 1222 — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 07:30:00 +0000

The Iranian feature-length documentary will take part at the international competition section of the Russian film festival, competing with 13 more titles from France, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Iceland, Russia and several other countries.

‘Finding Farideh’ is about an Iranian girl named Farideh, who has been adopted by a Dutch couple 40 years ago, and now she overcomes her fears and travels to her motherland Iran for the first time to meet three families who claim to be her real family, and to find out about her Iranian identity and culture.

The Flahertiana festival is named after the American filmmaker Robert Flaherty, and rests upon principles first used by the director in his ‘Nanook of the North’. These are films where the hero lives on the screen a part of his life directed by the author according to the laws of dramatic art, according to the festival’s website.

Since 2006 the festival officially became annual international documentary film festival with international competition jury and FIPRESCI jury.

The 19th Flahertiana International Documentary Film Festival will be held from September 20 to 26 in Perm, Russia.

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US Big Sky filmfest. to screen ‘Finding Farideh’

reporter 1222 — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 08:31:43 +0000

Iranian documentary movie ‘Finding Farideh’, directed by Kourosh Ataee, will go on screen at the 16th Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.

‘Finding Farideh’ is about an Iranian girl named Farideh, who has been adopted by a Dutch couple 40 years ago, and now overcomes her fears and travels to her motherland Iran for the first time to meet three families who claim to be her real family and have a DNA test with them, and to find out about her Iranian Identity and culture.

The American festival this year features a special program for Iranian films, named ‘Stories from Iran’. Two Iranian documentaries, ‘Beloved’ by Yaser Talebi and ‘Lotus’ by Mohammadreza Vatandoust, as well as ‘Aleppo: The Silence of the War’, a co-production with Syria directed by Amir Osanlu, ‘Finding Farideh’ by Kourosh Ataee and Azadeh Mousavi, and ‘Skipper Soleiman’ by Saadat Ali Saeedpour will go on screen at the US festival.

The 16th Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, dedicated to documentary films from around the world, will be held on 15-24 February 2019 in Montana, US.

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