Festival also showcases local films as the Vietnam Cinema Department becomes more proactive in film financing.
Iranian director Rouhollah Hejazi’s The Dark Room was named best film at the 5th Hanoi International Film Festival (Haniff), while Poland’s Piotr Domalewski won best director for Silent Night and the jury award went to Serbian director Vladimir Todorovic’s Pale Folk.
A total of 12 international feature films making at least their Asian premieres were in competition. Other award winners include Signal Rock from the Philippines, which won best actor for Christian Bables, and Vietnam’s Summer In Closed Eyes, which took...
Iranian director Rouhollah Hejazi’s The Dark Room was named best film at the 5th Hanoi International Film Festival (Haniff), while Poland’s Piotr Domalewski won best director for Silent Night and the jury award went to Serbian director Vladimir Todorovic’s Pale Folk.
A total of 12 international feature films making at least their Asian premieres were in competition. Other award winners include Signal Rock from the Philippines, which won best actor for Christian Bables, and Vietnam’s Summer In Closed Eyes, which took...
- 11/1/2018
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
The Private Lives of Mr. and Mrs. M
Directed by Rouhollah Hejazi
Iran, 2014
When asked what his wife, Ava, does for a living, Mohsen responds that she’s an interior decorator and graphic artist. It’s a lie, told only to impress Mohsen’s boss who has promoted him, and it’s one even Ava is impressed with later, praising her husband for endowing her with such an interesting occupation. During these early stages of The Private Lives of Mr. and Mrs. M, Ava, played by Mahtab Keramati, is meek and and quiet, taking harsh criticisms from her husband in dutiful silence – he thinks her clumsy and thoughtless and her hobby as a wedding table decorator is meaningless. These demeaning evaluations of Ava are poorly disguised as constructive criticisms meant to empower her, but instead keep her dependent on Mohsen’s “expertise.” However, Hamid Farokhnezhad plays Mohsen with a humorous...
Directed by Rouhollah Hejazi
Iran, 2014
When asked what his wife, Ava, does for a living, Mohsen responds that she’s an interior decorator and graphic artist. It’s a lie, told only to impress Mohsen’s boss who has promoted him, and it’s one even Ava is impressed with later, praising her husband for endowing her with such an interesting occupation. During these early stages of The Private Lives of Mr. and Mrs. M, Ava, played by Mahtab Keramati, is meek and and quiet, taking harsh criticisms from her husband in dutiful silence – he thinks her clumsy and thoughtless and her hobby as a wedding table decorator is meaningless. These demeaning evaluations of Ava are poorly disguised as constructive criticisms meant to empower her, but instead keep her dependent on Mohsen’s “expertise.” However, Hamid Farokhnezhad plays Mohsen with a humorous...
- 2/21/2014
- by Jae K. Renfrow
- SoundOnSight
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