Film Screening: Salam Cinema, followed by discussion with director
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Thursday 24 June 15:00 to 17:30
School III, St Salvator’s Quad, North Street, University of St Andrews
Mohsen Makhmalbaf, the director of many major and award-winning films
from Iran and Afghanistan, will take part in a Q&A session at the
University of St Andrews on 24 June.
Makhmalbaf, who will also be collecting an honorary degree from the
University of St Andrews, has written, produced, directed and acted in
some 40 films, often carrying out all of these tasks at the same time.
Included among the films that he has directed are /Kandahar/, /Gabbeh/,
/The Silence/, /Once Upon a Time Cinema/, /The Cyclist/, /A Moment of
Innocence/, and /Salam Cinema/. He has won awards from the Cannes,
Venice, Locarno, Montréal and Tokyo film festivals, among others.__
He is also the author of over 25 books, a dozen of which have been
translated into various different languages, and he has written many
scripts for films made by other filmmakers, including Samira Makhmalbaf
(/The Apple/, /Blackboards/, /At Five in the Afternoon/), Hana
Makhmalbaf (/Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame/), and Marzieh Meshkini (/The
Day I Became a Woman/, /Stray Dogs/).
Makhmalbaf will be on hand to answer questions about his life and
career, which has seen him go from being a political prisoner before the
Islamic Revolution in 1979 to becoming a self-taught and one of the most
prominent intellectuals in Iran and one of the most renowned filmmakers
in the world.
The event, which will include a subtitled screening of /Salam Cinema/,
will start at 3pm on Thursday 24 June and will be followed by a Q&A for
an hour with the director, and then a drinks reception.
/Salam Cinema/ sees Makhmalbaf set out to choose the cast for a new
fiction film, only to find that he overwhelmed by potential candidates,
out of whom he decides to make a documentary instead. In typical
fashion, then, Makhmalbaf pushes the boundaries between documentary and
fiction, asking questions about the nature and the power of cinema, all
the while rooted in a specifically Iranian context.
This event is organised by the Iranian Institute and the Centre for Film
Studies at the University of St Andrews, with support from the School of
Philosophy, Social Anthropology and Film Studies, and the School of
History.
For more information, contact William Brown, Lecturer in Film Studies,
University of St Andrews. Email [log in to unmask] Telephone: 01334
462 453.
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