17/08/2024
🎞️ Melbourne International Film Festivali & Iranian Film Festival Australia (IFFA) invite you to Join a panel discussion on Iranian Cinema;
📍Sunday 18 Aug 4:30pm - the Wheeler Center (State Library Victoria)
Explore the rich history of Iranian cinema through the past to present day with the director and co-writers of Cannes 2024 Award Winning film, Universal Langauge. Hosted by Armin Miladi, director of Iranian Film Festival Australia
From this year’s extensive retrospective strand Iranian New Wave: 1962–79 curated for MIFF by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York which features 26 films over 12 sessions from the Cinema–ye Motafavet (Iranian New Wave) movement, to two new feature films (My Favourite Cake, The Seed of the Sacred Fig), and two new short films (In the Garden of Tulips, In the Shadow of the Cypress), there is a vast array of Iranian cinema to delve into at this year’s festival – covering documentary, animation, fiction and folktale. Add to this the unique Cannes award–winning Canadian film Universal Language – selected for our Bright Horizons Competition – which reimagines Winnipeg as 1980s Iran and lovingly pays homage to key films from that country. Join director Matthew Rankin and co–writer Ila Firouzabadi as they discuss their film alongside the rich tapestry and politics of Persian cinema with the director of the Iranian Film Festival of New York & Australia.
*This Event is Free to attend but you need to register online:
🎟️ Click Here for more info and register
https://miff.com.au/program/film/universal-language-iranian-cinema