Karlovy Vary film festival picks “Zalava”, “Like a Fish on the Moon”

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At least, that is what its inhabitants think, and so from time to time the village is witness to bloody conflicts with those presumed to be
charlatan and even to arrest him, this triggers a massive wave of ill will within the community that leads to unexpected casualties.The film
brought Arsalan Amiri the award for best director at the 8th Duhok International Film Festival in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region.Directed by
having to cope with a tough situation: their four-year-old son Ilya has suddenly stopped talking
There is evidently no physiological cause, so they go to see a psychotherapist who comes up with a radical solution
filmmaker Mitra Farahani.As a co-production from France, Switzerland, Iran and Lebanon, the film provides an affectionate depiction of an
encounter between the breathless titans, Jean-Luc Godard and Iranian filmmaker and literary figure Ebrahim Golestan
They engage in long-distance exchanges of quotations and cryptic statements
Their dialogue, which should have taken place long ago in the last century, inevitably consists of weighty themes, such as humanity, time,
art and death.Farahani won the Encounters, Berlinale 2022 special jury award for this film.Canada-based Iranian director Sadaf Forughi is
official section of the festival.Set in northern Iran, the story of the film is about a young swimmer who is training for the national
championships with his new coach
Dornaz Hajiha.MMS/YAW