Middle East Art Fusion

|* cinema. Black Night Film Festival 2005. Poff.

Do you know why I love the end of the Fall term? As a normal student of course I just hate the workload, deadlines and exams, however, there is such a perfect reason to enjoy life during this time. And the reason is the Black Night Film Festival aka POFF in Tallinn. This year it happens from the 2nd till the 11th of December.

There are a number of movies from the Middle East countries presented:

• 20 Fingers (Beest Anghosht) Iran, Great Britain 2004
  the issues of men and women within the confines of the traditional and family life in Iran
• Earth and Ashes (Khakestar-O-Khak), Afghanistan, France 2004
  the old man’s journey to find his son, the story takes on the nature of a parable of desperation caused by destructive loss, and of the need and ability of the human spirit to face the horrors of war.
• Iron Island (Jazireh Ahani) Iran 2005
  a fast-paced tale about poor people in the Persian Gulf living aboard a sinking oil tanker
• The Unwanted Woman Iran 2005
  reveals opposition and clashes in relations
• Turtles Can Fly (Lakposhta Ham Parvaz Mikonand) Iran, Iraq 2004
  a refugee camp on the Turkish-Iraqi border where Kurds have fled from the surrounding villages. This is the other face of war, full of blood, fear and pain, which can turn a child’s heart to stone
• Magia Russica Israel, Russia 2004
  Fjodor Chytruk is one of the greatest Russian animators. The movie moves between the sights and sounds of Russia, and into the animated films.
• To Take A Wife (Ve Lakachta Lecha Isha) Israel, France 2004
  The story revolves around the home and the family, and describes the three days of preparation for the Shabbat
• Waiting For The Clouds (Bulutlari Beklerken) Turkey, France, Germany, Greece 2004
  Drawing on the novel Tamama by Yorgos Andreadis, the story takes place in the 1970s in the Turkish fishing village of Trebolu on the shores of the Black Sea, not far from the Soviet border

posted by Aleksandra Birjukova @ 2.12.05