TEHRAN-The 36th Festival of Films from Iran began in Chicago, the U.S., on Friday, revealing some of the highlights of Iranian movie theater provided at the Gene Siskel Film Center - during the festival and all year - in the last 36 years.The celebration has selected award-winning movies in addition to films from internationally renowned directors to reveal at its existing edition, ISNA reported.The lineup includes The Sealed Soil by Marva Nabili (1977 ), Close Up directed by Abbas Kiarostami (1990 ), Leila by Dariush Mehrjui (1997 ), Children of Heaven by Majid Majidi (1997 ), A Separation by Asghar Farhadi (2011 ), and Starless Dreams by Mehrdad Oskouei (2016 ).
Now as the festival prepares to conclude its third decade, the organizers are nostalgic for these momentous years of this revolutionary festival and of a choice of the films that have defined the last 36 years of Iranian movie theater.
In an ever-shifting cinematic landscape, and in an unpredictable time for Iran, the celebration recalls in homage, while at the same time looking forward in anticipation.The Festival of Films from Iran was established in 1989 and continues as an annual display that highlights the innovation, strength, and humanism of modern Iranian filmmakers and acclaimed Iranian auteurs.
The festival functions as a window to Iran and its political, social, and cultural world, forming and challenging audiences understandings of Iran, while likewise building a richer understanding of the nation and its cinema.The Gene Siskel Film Center is Chicagos premier art home movie theater in the heart of the theater district, bringing film fans together for an exceptional movie-going experience.
It provides a curated collection of eclectic global, independent, and classic movie theater with celebrations and year-round programming while striving to supply a welcoming area reflective of Chicagos diverse neighborhood.
As a public program of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Film Center cultivates discussion that sets movies in historical and cultural context through panels, lectures, and filmmaker conversations.Since 1972, the Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago has actually presented advanced cinema to a yearly audience of 100,000.
The Film Centers shows consists of annual film festivals that commemorate varied voices and global cultures, premieres of trailblazing work by todays independent filmmakers, restorations and revivals of necessary films from cinema history, and insightful, intriguing conversations with filmmakers and media artists.
Altogether, the Film Center hosts over 1,600 screenings and 200 filmmaker appearances every year.
The Film Center was renamed the Gene Siskel Film Center in 2000 after the late, nationally celebrated movie critic, Gene Siskel.After a week of evaluating marvelous Iranian movies, this years edition of the Festival of Films from Iran will conclude on February 13.
SS/