Ivaylo Hristov’s “Fear” at Fajr film festival Tehran Times
TEHRAN – Bulgarian director Ivaylo Hristov’s drama “Fear” will be competing in the 38th Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran, the organizers announced on Saturday.
The film tells the story of Svetla, a widow who has recently lost her job and is living next to the Bulgarian-Turkish border. There are many cases of refugees in her village due to its location. One day she meets a refugee from Africa and this changes her life.
Starring Svetlana Yancheva and Michael Flemming, the film won the Golden Rose for best film at the 38th Golden Rose Film Festival in Varna, Bulgaria.
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May 13, 2021
LAHORE: After restoration and preservation of 170-year old paintings of Hungarian painter August Schoffet have been put on display at Sikh Gallery, Lahore Fort.
This task was completed by Archeology Directorate and Tourism Department in collaboration with Hungarian Embassy and Walled City Lahore Authority (WCLA). Paintings of Hungarian artist August Schoefft, who visited Lahore between 1841 and 1842, displayed in Princess Bamba Gallery at Lahore Fort.
According to historical accounts, Schoefft belonged to a family of artists. The street where he was born in 1809 is still known as ‘Képíró Utca’/Artists’. In November 1841, Schoefft arrived at the court of Maharaja Sher Singh, the openly anglophile successor of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Schoefft completed a number of paintings for Sher Singh which he left behind in the royal Tosha Khana or treasury. Schoefft took away with him sketches of personalities he encountered in Lahore.
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Budapest: We don t make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies. When given an opportunity, deliver excellence and never quit. A film is more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. When it comes to short films you can be poetic and you don t have to answer anything. You can make whatever you want. You have creative freedom with short film, said Sandeep Marwah Film maker and Chancellor of AAFT University of Media And Arts from India who was talking in the capacity of Co-President of Hungarian Shoot 4 Earth competition.
Director Suman Mukhopadhyay first staged
Mephisto in Kolkata to protest the 2002 Gujarat riots. The Bengali play re-emerged in 2012 as a critique of the violence displayed by the ruling Trinamool Congress party. It is based on Klaus Mann’s 1936 novel of the same name, Ariane Mnouchkine’s stage version of the book and Hungarian filmmaker Istvan Szabo’s movie adaptation.
Now, smack in the middle of the Bengal assembly elections,
Mephisto is back on the stage in Kolkata to “remind people of how authoritarian fascist rule can destroy the fabric of a country, and what the role of an artist can be in this situation”, Mukhopadhyay told
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