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A slightly contrived, but still affecting, drama.
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The widow of a man wrongfully executed for murder seeks justice in all the wrong places in Behtash Sanaeeha and Maryam Moghaddam’s Iranian drama.
Adding another strong voice to the chorus of anti-capital-punishment films coming out of Iran is
Ballad of a White Cow (
Ghasideyeh gave sefid), a drama almost entirely centered on the wife of a condemned man who is wrongfully executed for murder in the opening scene. Played with huge amounts of feminine dignity by Maryam Moghaddam, who co-directed with Behtash Sanaeeha, the widow Mina is shown to be refreshingly capable of raising her deaf daughter on her own and navigating the minefield of a highly misogynistic society and even (gasp) of finding love.
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BERLIN, Feb 13, (AP): The Berlin International Film Festival on Thursday announced 15 films that are part of this year’s competition and will compete for the top Golden and Silver Bear awards. The festival is taking place in a sized-down, more virtual form due to the pandemic.
The selection includes several German contributions and films from France, Romania, Hungary Mexico, South Korea and Japan, among others. Along the German films are world premieres such as “Fabian Going to the Dogs,” directed by Dominik Graf, “I’m your man” by Maria Schrader and “Next Door” by Daniel Bruehl.
There’s an Iranian-French production called “Ballad of a White Cow” by Behtash Sanaeeha and Maryam Moghaddam and the Korean “Introduction” by Hong Sangsoo. Japan is presented with the “Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy” by Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Hungary with “Forest I See You Everywhere” by Bence Fliegauf. “The disruption brought on by the events of 2020 has l
Gagarine Sales Agent Totem Films Boards Berlin Competition Entry Ballad of a White Cow (EXCLUSIVE)
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Paris-based Totem Films announced Friday that it is handling sales on Iranian Behtash Sanaeeha and Maryam Moghaddam’s Berlin Film Festival competition entry, “Ballad of a White Cow.” Totem Films will bring the drama onto the market at early March’s European Film Market (EFM).
The pick-up is sure to draw attention. Launched in 2019 by Agathe Valentin, Laure Parleani and Berenice Vincent, sales and production company Totem Films made waves at the Cannes Film Market last year, scoring vast international sales on “Gagarine,” one of the Cannes Festival official selection’s biggest arthouse breakouts.
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All week long, Carlo Chatrian, the artistic director of the Berlin International Film Festival, has been rolling out the lineup of the seventy-first edition, one section after another, leading up to yesterday’s unveiling of the main competition. From March 1 through 5, dozens of features and shorts will stream to the juries, industry professionals, and accredited press, and then, hopefully, the general public will have the opportunity to see them from June 9 through 20.
Someone had the brilliant idea of inviting six past winners of the festival’s top prize, the Golden Bear, to serve on this year’s competition jury. Mohammad Rasoulof (