The Alliance Francaise of Madras in collaboration with the International Cine Appreciation Forum (ICAF) presents an Iranian Film Festival in Chennai from June 25–28, 2007, 6.30 p.m., at the AFM Auditorium in Chennai.

Iranian movies often focus on ordinary people brought about by social, cultural or natural forces. These are powerful subjects, and Iranian film-makers manage to address them not with easy sloganeering or sentimentality but with insight and a sure sense of storytelling basics and dramatic purpose.

Music, Movies and Mamta Are you ready: Image makeover Red One for Achchamundu! Achchamundu! A day-trip to Dakshin Chitra ஒரு படம், இரு நாயகர்கள் யோகி: ஆங்கிலப் படத்தின் காப்பியா? சிம்புவின் டாலரும் தேவையில்லாத வதந்தியும்

Dariush Mehrjui, one of the fathers of the Iranian movie modernity, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Madji Majidi, and other directors have provoked a movie shock by creating a modern cinema, neither demonstrative nor moralising, built on minimalist scenarios. We find in the iranian cinema a poetic lead, a proper aspect of the iranaian culture, and which request the viewer’s imagination.

Monday, June 25:
'Leila' by Dariush Mehrjui (1996)

Tuesday, June 26:
'Kandahar' by Mohsen Makhmalbaf (2001)

Wednesday, June 27:
'Baran' by Majid Majidi (2001)

Thursady, June 28:
'Behind the Curtains of Fog' by Parviz Sheikh Tadi

R Rangaraj