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Film:
Rostami shooting "Jan-i-Gal" in Iraqi Kurdistan |
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Film: Rostami shooting "Jan-i-Gal" in
Iraqi Kurdistan
2.5.2006
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TEHRAN -- After
his successful feature film debut “Requiem of Snow”,
Iranian Kurdish director Jamil Rostami is currently
making his new film “Jan-i-Gal” in Sulaymaniah,
Iraqi Kurdistan, ISNA reported on Monday.
The film is based on a novel of the same name by
Iraqi Kurdish author Ibrahim Ahmed. He has written
many poems and novels, but critics describe his
“Jan-i-Gal” (The Agony of a People) as the first
authentic novel depicting the cultural and political
situation of Iraq during the 1940s and 1950s.
The film is about Jwamer, who goes to get a midwife
for his wife Kaleh, who is in labor. By chance, or
by ill luck, he runs into a demonstration and is
seriously wounded and arrested by mistake as a
ringleader in Sulaymaniah. After a rigged trial,
Jwamer is sentenced to ten years in prison. He
serves his sentence and, as soon as he is set free,
goes in search of his wife and child.
A joint production of Iran and Iraq, Rostami’s
“Requiem of Snow” won the Best Director Award at the
8th Olympia International Film Festival for Children
and Young People last December in Greece.
The film represented Iraqi cinema in the category of
Best Foreign Language Film at the 78th Annual
Academy Awards in 2006.
Rostami has also directed several short films,
including his first short film “The Trouble of Being
a Boy”, which was screened at 24 Iranian and
international festivals and was awarded several
prizes.
Tehran Times.com
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