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[New Internationalist - The people, the ideas, the action in the fight for global justice] Underground film meets underground music”¦ Iranian-style ...: So, converting frustration into creativity, he proceeded to make a far riskier unlicensed film, allying his own cause to that of the underground rock, punk, indie, rap and heavy metal musicians who also suffer from the Islamic Republic’s strict censorship rules.”˜I told myself, either I just go outside of Iran and make my film or I stay and make a documentary [to expose the situation],’ says Ghobadi, whose film has worldwide distribution and is now touring the festivals and picking up awards.

[Entertainment Daily] TV channels are ignoring documentaries: Jahnu Barua: NEW DELHI - With more than 50 films entered from eight Saarc countries and a special screening of 12 Iranian films, the fourth annual South Asian Film Festival starts in Goa June 26. The four-day event will feature movies from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka and will have the theme "dissolving boundaries", the official website of the festival said.

[CUMINet] Catfight? Or time for a new direction in Iranian cinema? | CUMINet: He argues that Kiarostami’s criticism is a way for the Grand Old Man to justify his own ”˜silence and conservatism’ vis-à-vis the acute problems in Iranian society: ”˜In all these years, you have created films without the slightest influence from politics and society, which of course, is your right and your choice. Silence is also your right, even though if you were to open your mouth and criticize the rulers’ oppression and the chaotic conditions in society, you would still enjoy much more safety than the rest of us ”¦ The United Nations [would] stand by you.

[Western Herald] Iranian Rapper speaks of Peace at film screening « Western Herald: She returned for holiday visit when 13, only to be caught in the midst of war and forced to stay for two years when the Iran government shut-down the borders. She left Iran to live in the U.S. without her family, who were not given permission to leave the country.

[On Hallow Ground] On Hallow Ground: 'No One Knows About Persian Cats', at the Times ...: As an individual who has campaigned his whole adult life (I remember him, many, many years ago, together with Joanna Lumley, chaining himself to railings outside parliament in protest at the then government's policy toward asylum seekers), he felt that he didn't want the audience to leave a provocative film and feel frustrated, not knowing where to turn. Brightwide should provide a forum for discussion and follow up action, whether it was meeting in small groups or organising a protest march or any other appropriate event.

[Tagalog Movie Trailers] DAVID & LAYLA - Trailer Cinema USA Official | Tagalog Movie Trailers: Film's score reflects this by being a music 'Love & Peace' melange of Iranian, Arabic, Jewish, Kurdish, Armenian, Turkish. Bassto1 November 30th, 2009 on 4:52 am.

[Omid Memarian] Q&A: Notes From Iran's Underground Music Scene : Omid Memarian: AS: There are a few documentaries, unfortunately none of them look at the underground music of Iran from the historical/analytical perspective, and none talk about the content or the lyrics. Like all the other cultural activities in Iran covered by the western media they have the attitude of the surprised westerner who is shocked to find out that there are people in the Middle East that play the guitar!

[SBCC Film Reviews] SBCC Film Reviews » Blog Archive » No One Knows About Persian Cats ...:  Many of the frames were jam packed with rapidly moving images and objects, while still always having a central focus, which I gathered is what life is like in Iran: things move fast and often revolve around the well being of one person, whomever is so lucky that day.

[Vulture] Doha-Tribeca Fest's Six Best Middle Eastern Films -- Vulture: Those hallmarks remain in this part-fiction journey through Tehran’s very-real underground music scene, but he also mixes in pseudo-documentary concert footage, MTV-style cutting, and real narrative urgency to create a surprisingly devastating portrait of a young city bursting with inspiration, creative longing, and danger.

[Errol Morris] Cartesian Blogging, Part Three - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com: He has also directed "Gates of Heaven," "The Thin Blue Line," "Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control," "A Brief History of Time" and "Standard Operating Procedure." A book of his essays (many of which have appeared here) will be published soon. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and lives with his wife and French bulldog in Cambridge, Mass.

[The Gulf blog] The Doha Tribeca Film Festival « The Gulf blog: The curiously titled No One’s Heard About Persian Cats delved into Tehran’s underground music scene which, I admit, sounds utterly pretentious, niche and oh-so achingly ‘modern’. However, my cynicism was proved to be very misplaced.

[SWJ Blog] 19 November SWJ Roundup (SWJ Blog): s top general in Iraq, told a news conference Wednesday that despite the veto, he remains optimistic an election will take place as scheduled some time in January. The election law appears headed back to parliament, which approved it after months of sectarian squabbling and heavy US lobbying.

[Errol Morris] The Case of the Inappropriate Alarm Clock (Part 1) - Opinionator ...: But there was a small photography program, part of the Information Division of the F.S.A., headed by Roy Stryker, that nurtured many of the important photographers of the 1930s: Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Ben Shahn and Arthur Rothstein, among others. It also produced Pare Lorentz’s extraordinary documentary films “The Plow that Broke the Plains”

[Muslimah Media Watch] Muslimah Media Watch » Nahid Persson's “Prostitution Behind the Veil”: But at the end, the documentary leaves you with really nothing to grab onto (well, it does have a very poignant close up of the ladies only entrance at the airport). Yes, there are marginalized and disempowered women in Iran, but I would have appreciated both a fuller discussion of the reasons behind their descent into the sex trade and a toning down of the Orientalist assumptions.

[Artist Famous Rap Blog] Artist Famous Rap Blog » Artist Famous Rap: Tehran's underground music scene is explored in a number of documentaries at last year's Cannes Film Festival, including Amir Hamz's "Sounds of Silence" and Bahman Ghobadi's "No One Knows About Persian Cats" From forerunners like rock band O-hum to innovative stars like Mohsen Namjoo, the stories of a few musicians who have gone mainstream once they leave Iran have been featured in the mainstream media. But less is known about those who remain inside the country and cautiously guard their identities.

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