During the 11 days of the Festival, the selected filmmakers will be offered a quality program of appointments and meetings with prestigious guests of the 72nd edition, according to the event’s website.

Alireza Ghasemi, born in 1990 in Tehran, received his MFA in filmmaking from Tehran University of Art and spent an exchange year at Film Academy Baden-Württemberg in Germany. In 2015 he founded the Globe International Silent Film Festival which is exclusively reserved for non-verbal short films.

Ghasemi’s last short film, ‘Lunch Time’, was in competition at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. Currently he is developing his first feature project.

The 72nd edition of Locarno Film Festival will take place on 7-17 August 2019 in Switzerland.

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To earn money for the concert, Malook and some friends pull the copper lines out of the walls of empty buildings that are riddled with bullets and rockets and write apologies for their theft on the walls, in hope the people who have fled ever return.

Farahmand’s acclaimed documentary “Women with Gunpowder Earrings”, about a female journalist who covers stories about Syrian and Iraqi women and children in the war against the ISIS terrorists, was selected for the previous edition of the Semaine de la critique.

Six more documentaries including “Shalom Allah” by David Vogel from Switzerland, “Murghab” co-directed by Martin Saxer, Marlen Elders and Daler Kaziev from Germany and “The Euphoria of Being” by Réka Szabó from Hungary will go on screen in this section.

“Adolescents” by Sébastien Lifshitz from France, “Another Reality” co-directed by Noel Dernesch and Olli Waldhauer and “Lovemobil” by Elke Margarete Lehrenkrauss, both from Germany are also among the films.

The organizers of the Semaine de la critique plan to celebrate its 30th anniversary by a review of Swiss director Fredi M. Murer’s “Der Grüne Berg”, which was screened during the first edition in 1990.

The Semaine de la critique will take place in the Swiss city of Locarno from August 9 to 16, focusing on innovative films on the periphery of the mainstream – both formally and content wise.

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