In the blink of an eye, the seven-day Beijing International Film Festival's "Focus on the Future" screening unit will soon come to an end. But the cameras won't stop, good movies won't leave, and the closing film that focuses on the future is also quite worth looking forward to.
"The Love Story of a Three-Part Urban Wanderer"
"Funeral Culture and Small Luck"
Tehran, the City of Love
Director: Ali Jaber Ansari
Writers: Ali Jaber Ansari / Maryam Najafi
Starring: Forough Ghajabagli / Mehdi Saki / Amir Hessam Bakhtiari
Country/Region of Production: Iran / United Kingdom / Netherlands
Language: Persian
Duration: 102 minutes
Awards
9th Beijing International Film Festival Temple of Heaven Award (nominated): Ali Jaber Ansari
Synopsis
Mina is a receptionist at a beauty agency, and she is an obese middle-aged woman in reality. Eager for love, she met netizens by phone but never came out. Will she meet her true love this time?
Hessam was a former bodybuilding champion and now a fitness instructor, bored by his often dazed life, until a promising young student asked him to be his coach, he re-experienced the vivid presence of life, he also found the hidden excitement that he had never had in his life, will this fight have any results?
Wahid, a religious funeral singer, was ruthlessly dumped by his fiancée, and he decided to follow his friend's advice and abandon his frustrated self in favor of becoming a wedding party singer to rediscover the meaning of life. However, can he successfully complete the singing in the wedding in a black suit?
Can seemingly miraculous encounters be fateful encounters and redemptions?
"Tehran: City of Love" is one of the finalists of the "Temple of Heaven Award" in the main competition unit of this year's Beijing International Film Festival.
Unlike the realistic Iranian films we are familiar with, such as "Little Shoes", this is a film that focuses on the lonely hearts of urban men and women in modern Iranian society.
Director Ali Jaber Ansari uses fragmented narratives and alternative character settings to subvert people's traditional impressions of the city of Tehran, telling the story of three lonely people in the city, each looking for love in their own way.
Born in Iran, Ali Jaber Al-Anzari moved to Canada as a young man to study in London, England. Born in the East and learned in the West, this kind of growth and education experience allows the director to re-examine the city of Tehran with a different look and emotion, and also makes the film have a unique temperament that is different from traditional Iranian films in terms of audiovisual language.
Scratch the point!
This film will be screened as a closing film and the "Temple of Heaven Award", but the benefit of focusing on the future is that the ticket price is only 20 yuan, and there is a wonderful closing ceremony, missing a year!
April 18
We are in the standard screening hall of the Beijing Film Academy
Not seen, not scattered
Text: Yao Mengxuan
Typography: Wu Shanglin