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Kurdish director Jamil Rostami and Italian producer to
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Kurdish director Jamil Rostami and Italian
producer to joint-venture in "Kirkuk’s Flower" 16.7.2007 |
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July
16, 2007
TEHRAN, -- Kurdish Iranian filmmaker Jamil
Rostami and an unnamed Italian producer will jointly
produce "Kirkuk’s Flower", an Iraqi Kurd-focused
film.
Iranian Kurd Fariborz Kamkari will direct the film
and the whole cast will be made up of Iraqi Kurds,
Rostami told the Persian service of the Iranian
Students News Agency on Saturday.
"The film’s production crew will be selected from
Iranian and European artists and the actors will
speak in Kurdish," he added.
"Kirkuk’s Flower" is about the development of
underground operations against Saddam Hussein in the
northern Iraqi Kurdish city of Kirkuk after the
massacre of Kurdish people by Baathists in 1988 and
1989.
Last week, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani attended
the premiere of Rostami’s previous film "Requiem of
Snow" featuring Kurdish villagers who pray for rain
in Sulaimaniyah. The movie is scheduled to be
screened in Erbil and Duhok in Iraqi Kurdistan.
The film was screened in Iranian theaters last year
in February. However, Rostami criticized cultural
officials for the unsuitable timing of the screening
as well as for the small number of cinema halls
allocated to the film.
Rostami has also directed "Jan-i-Gal", a
feature-length movie focusing on the Iraqi Kurdish
author Ibrahim Ahmed.
Several months ago, Rostami published an
announcement in Iranian newspapers in a quest to
find plots for use in a series of 15 short films
about Iraqi Kurdish people to be produced by young
filmmakers.
"I have received many story lines and the young
filmmakers will begin working soon," Rostami said.
mehrnews com
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