Karlovy Vary Film Festival Puts Iranian Cinema in Spotlight, Pays Tribute to Japanese Filmmaker Yasuzo Masumura
variety.comLeo Barraclough International Features Editor The 57th edition of Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival, which runs June 30-July 8, has planned a retrospective program focused on Iranian cinema with a selection of films made in the past four years.
The festival will also celebrate the work of Japanese filmmaker Yasuzo Masumura. Commenting on the Iranian cinema program, the festival said in a statement: “Collectively these works offer an insightful testimony of the burning creativity of Iran’s artists in face of the challenging reality.
Nine mostly young filmmakers – urgent, unheard voices – who palpably bear a spiritual connection to the previous generations of their country’s greats, tackle the current reality with a remarkable sensitivity and great inventiveness. “Melancholic dramas, comedies, war movies, sci-fis…films about love, and films within films.
Together, these nine unique and intensely personal testimonies form a multi-dimensional mosaic that reflect the collective spirit and openness of Iran’s young cinema of today.” The nine Iranian films will be “No End” (Nader Saeivar, 2022), “The Locust” (Faeze Azizkhani, 2022), “Zapata” (Danesh Eqbashavi, 2023), “The Skin” (Bahram Ark, Bahran Ark, 2023), “Dream’s Gate” (Negin Ahmad, 2023), “A Trip to the Moon” (Mohammadreza Shayan-Nejad, 2021), “Black and White River” (Farzin Mohammadi, 2019), “Creation Between Two Surfaces” (Hossein Rajabian, 2019) and “K9” (Vahid Vakilifar, 2020).
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