TEHRAN Nine Iranian films will be screened at the International Film Festival Ferfilm in Kosovo.Among the films are The Fabric by Iman Behruzi, Quarantine by Majid Mirhashemi, Philadelphia Iran Afghanistan by Zardosht Ashari, The Zoo by Nafiseh Zare and Katvoman by Hadi Sheibani.In The Fabric, a co-production between Iran and Germany, an Iranian student shows that the renovations of his university dorm were left unfinished because of the lockdown in Germany.
They had put up a thick fabric around the building to contain the debris that remained in place.
During the lockdown, 367 students living in the 25-story building could barely see the world outside through the tiny holes of this thick fabric.Quarantine is about a woman who has a fanatical husband, but she tries not to make her daughters future look like her own.The Iranian-American co-production Philadelphia Iran Afghanistan is a documentary that follows an Iranian international film student in Philadelphia who meets an Afghan immigrant.
He tries to talk to him about migration, displacement and loneliness in their mother tongue, Persian.In The Zoo, six-year-old Rannas mother tells her, Your father has left forever.
We will live together from now on.
The mother reveals this news in the zoo, while Ranna has had a dream about a deer that ran away from the zoo that same day and its cage was empty.Katvoman shows a mom and son playing dressed up as Batman and Catwoman before dad returns for dinner.
Through the play, the child will discover a difficult truth about his parents.Swell by Kayvan Sarvati, The Dumpster Diver by Farrokh Sadeqikol, The Ring by Roham Rasuli and Water and Color by Adnan Zandi will compete in the different sections of the festival, which take place from September 2 to 6 in Ferizaj.The festival also plans to organize tours and other events to promote cultural diversity in Kosovo.Photo: A scene from The Zoo directed by Nafiseh Zare.MMS/YAW