Iranian War Movie Welcomed in Europe | ||
uropeans have warmly welcomed award-winning Iranian director Saman Salour’s Sizdah 59 which has recently hit French and German screens. Salour’s 2011 war flick was screened in a number of movie theaters in Koln, Paris, Berlin and Frankfurt, Mehr News Agency reported. “The first Iranian war film screened in Europe, Sizdah 59 was well received both in content and form,” producer Javad Norouzbeigi said. Sizdah 59 is about Iranian war veterans and the challenges they face in society. Salour has received numerous international awards, including the special jury prize at the 59th Locarno Film Festival and the first prize at the 6th Third Eye Asian Film Festival in India. The 35-year-old director and screenwriter’s Tehran’s Song of Loneliness was accepted to the 2007 Cannes Film Festival and his A Few Kilos of Dates for a Funeral won the Golden Leopard and Special Prize of the Jury at Locarno International Film Festival and the Grand Prize of the 28th Three Continents Film Festival in Nantes, France. | ||
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