Iranian movie wins at Busan Filmfest

Iranian filmmaker Safi Yazdanian’s debut feature film What’s the Time in Your World? has been named winner at the 19th Busan International Film Festival in South Korea.

The movie was awarded Critics International Federation (Federation Internationale de la Press Cinematographique) FIPRESCI.

What’s the Time in Your World? is also scheduled to compete at the 2014 Mumbai Film Festival and the 38th Sao Paulo International Film Festival (Mostra Internacional de São Paulo) in late October.

Iranian drama Thirteen (13) directed by Houman Seyedi along with a Korean cinematic production jointly garnered the New Currents Award of the year’s festival.
 
Some 11 film titles from Iran took part at the 19th Busan International Film Festival in South Korea.

The ‘A Window to Asian Cinema’ section of the festival, presented 58 titles from 28 countries, of which 7 titles were from Iran.  A Few Cubic Meters of Love by Jamshid Mahmoudi, Tales by Rakhshan Bani-Etemad and Sun Station by Saman Salour were among the selected movies.

We Have a Guest by Mohammad Mehdi Asgarpour, Track 143 by Narges Abyar, Daughter…Mother…Daughter by Panah-bar-Khoda Rezaei, and Sensitive Floor by Kamal Tabrizi also represented Iranian cinema at the festival.

Short films Two Halves of True by Neda Asef and The Old Tree by Farnoush Abedi were screened at the Asian Short Film section.

About 313 films from 79 countries were displayed at this year’s edition of the festival.  

The 2014 Busan International Film Festival took place from October 2 to 11.

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