3 films from MIRIAM FILMS in 14 Tel Aviv International
Student Film Festival.
"Death to the Camera"
"The Glasses"
"Uncrowded"
Have been selected to the TAU International Student
Film Festival's International Competition 2012 as Grand Prize nominees.
“Uncrowded” short fiction film by Seyyed Ali
Mousavi “Azad”
About film: A nine year old child in
Kabul decides to build a house to escape his boredom but first must overcome a
number of obstacles in order to do so.
This film was winner of Best child actor in 4th
Tolo TV film festival in Kabul in 2009.
“The Glasses” short fiction film by Seyyed
Husseini Mousavi
About film: two friends; one of them a
boy and other one is a girl. The boy whose name is MEHRAB Finds a book full of
mad and takes it home with himself. The girl whose name RAHELEH accidentally
sees the book. None of them can read the book, so they go to Raheleh`s grand
father to teach them how to read. The boy accidentally breaks the arm of the
gather’s glasses. In order to learn reading they should fix the glasses. They
try many ways which you will discover during the course of the film.
This film
was best fiction short film between 14 films in a grant awards from Kabul US
embassy in 2011.
“Death to
the Camera” short documentary film by sayed Qasem Husseini.
About
film: A camera moves among woman working their last day on a job site. As they
joke and fight – accusing each other of being prostitutes, liars, and racists –
the mood repeatedly shifts between belly laughs and rage. The women are left
waiting for hours for their pay by the charity that administers the
cash-for-work program. As they wait, they consider what debts they’ll pay off,
what food they’ll buy, and how they’ll stay warm during the approaching winter.
There is lively discussion about what happens to all the aid that never reaches
them, and whether Karzai is a crook or a servant of the people.
Is the
camera revealing anything truthful, or simply inciting these women to present
what they think ‘the other’ wants to hear – or what might get them something
from the world on the other side of the camera? Who is on the other side of
that camera anyway?
"Death to the Camera" was winner of Best documentary film in THE 1st AUTUMN HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL, in 2011.
This film produced by CS Film in 2010-2011
About Tel Aviv International Student Film
Festival:
Festivals
in the world for student films, and is considered one of the most important in
this field.
Every
two years, in the month of June, hundreds of students, lecturers and well-known
guests of honor from the first line of the world cinema industry, gather in
Tel-Aviv for a week of rich and intensive fresh young cinema, and for a unique
cultural gathering.
Hundreds
of films, premiere screenings, fascinating cinematic events, workshops,
conferences and special projects take place alongside each other, inviting
thousands of visitors to the cinematheque theatres daily.
The
International Student Film Festival is run and produced since 1986 by film
students from the Tel-Aviv University, and has gathered in its 20 years of
existence much prestige and reputation.
