The 11th Luxembourg City Film Festival unveils its programme
Becoming Mona by Sabine Lubbe Bakker and Niels van Koevorden
The 11th edition of the Luxembourg City Film Festival will unspool in cinemas between 4 and 14 March, but it will also unfold online on account of a partnership with Festival Scope and Shift72. As such, the works battling it out in the Fiction Films and Documentaries competitions will be available to view by way of virtual screenings one day after their physical presentation. And kicking it all off will be
Chloé Zhao’s
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Viewers will be treated to a competition contested by hopefuls hailing from five continents, with Orange’s Grand Prize up for grabs. In this section, we find the Belgian-Dutch co-production
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The Night Even though making this as an Iranian film was important to me, I still wanted to make a movie that connects with people around the world, Kourosh Ahari says of his first feature film.
From the early stages of crafting his debut feature
The Night, Kourosh Ahari envisioned a tale of fear, loss and discovery that anyone from any part of the world could relate to. Even though making this as an Iranian film was important to me, I still wanted to make a movie that connects with people around the world, Ahari shares of the mostly Farsi-spoken film. It s a very universal theme and story that everyone, whether Iranian or not, can connect to because it s talking about the human condition that s shared among all of us around the world.
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In August 1978, four men set fire to the Cinema Rex in the Iranian city of Abadan, killing more than four hundred people inside. The event is said to have started the Iranian Revolution to overthrow the Shah s regime. Forty years later, Careless Crime by Iranian filmmaker Shahram Mokri depicts four men planning to burn down a cinema in a contemporary Iran where ghosts of the past haunt the current society. Interview by Schayan Riaz
I have to admit I wasn t aware of the Crime of Cinema Rex , even though it s such a well-documented event and is viewed as one of the triggers of the Islamic Revolution. Do you think that s because tragedies that happen in the Middle East aren t as prevalent in people s consciousness in the West?