The Nights of Zayandeh-rood by Mohsen Makhmalbaf in IFFK
as Special screening.
This film opened the Venice Classics 2016 and being shown in the
present edition of International Film Festival of Kerala which starts today at Thiruvananthapuram,capital citof Kerala,India as special screening.
After 26
years of ban by the Iranian government,
The Nights of Zayandeh-rood directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf in 1990 in Iran, opened
the Venice Classics 2016 held from Aug
31 - Sept 10 , 2016.This is a film that Iranian audience queued for kilo metres
at nights to be able to view it at its premiere during Fajr Film Festival, was
heavily attacked by states media and the Iranian government in 1990.The
film censorship committee in Iran found the film to be against the spirit of
Iranian revolution and therefore cut away 37 minutes (a third of the entire
movie) from the original negative , both before and after the festival. Nevertheless
the Islamic government in Iran considered the remaining 63 minutes still to be
against the purpose and objectives of the revolution due to its controversial
contents and therefore seized the original negative, explicitly prohibited its
public screening and denied its copying permission forever. In 2016 some parts
of the original negative were rescued from the censorship committee archives in
Iran, and the film made it to Venice Film Festival.The Nights Of Zayandeh-rood
narrates three era of Iranian people’s live: Before, during and a few years
after the revolution. The film investigates the roots of ongoing
dictatorship in Iranian society.
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