2023 | B/N | 81:00 After the Iranian Revolution, a movie collector in Tehran hid thousands of films to prevent their destruction by the new Islamic regime. Despite arrest and torture, he refused to give up his secret. His story of resistance is told by the boy who became his partner in crime, recollecting the episode years later from exile in London. A moving and inspiring autobiography about the subversive power of celluloid dreams. Country: Reino Unido Direction: Khoshbakht; Ehsan Script: Khoshbakht; Ehsan Production: Bell; Mary, Dawtrey; Adam Participation year at FICM: 2023
2023 | B/N | 81:00 After the Iranian Revolution, a movie collector in Tehran hid thousands of films to prevent their destruction by the new Islamic regime. Despite arrest and torture, he refused to give up his secret. His story of resistance is told by the boy who became his partner in crime, recollecting the episode years later from exile in London. A moving and inspiring autobiography about the subversive power of celluloid dreams. Country: Reino Unido Direction: Khoshbakht; Ehsan Script: Khoshbakht; Ehsan Production: Bell; Mary, Dawtrey; Adam Participation year at FICM: 2023
The Conformist In Fascist Italy in 1938, Marcello Clerici is eager to be accepted into the social circles of the regime, which he admires. His opportunity arises when he is ordered to track down, in Paris, a former professor of his—now an opponent of Mussolini—and assassinate him. See More
If I Were Fire Two young lovers wander through an abandoned countryside, where reality is distorted and the ruins of a long-gone village give glimpses of the past. The presence of a mysterious horseman transforms the bucolic landscape into a nightmare. See More
Lives on the Border Lives on the border portrays the tragic consequences of an unfair sentence delivered by the U.S. criminal justice system. Through several interconnected life stories, we'll discover what Rosa Estela Olvera, a Mexican woman wrongfully convicted in the U.S. (My Life Inside 2007), endures in prison: a psycho-emotional exploration of the loneliness of confinement; and the long and arduous battle to win back her family and obtain justice. See More
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