Director: Sepideh Abtahi.
“The First Door on the Sky”
The First Door on the Sky is the story of an anonymous citizen who thinks of himself as an untiring freedom fighter like Nehru, Lumumba, and Gandhi. He believes in the freedom of world’s nations, especially Iranians, from domestic and foreign domination.
Despite owning a 4000 sqm property, Dr Mohammad Taraghi lives in a very small room and survives off of selling recyclable garbage materials. His ultimate goal however, is turn his property into the “House of Nation “.
Eighty years old man, Dr Mohamad Traghi, is going to bequest his valuable property to the United Nations and earns his living by collecting trash
Director: Sepideh Abtahi.
“The First Door on the Sky”
The First Door on the Sky is the story of an anonymous citizen who thinks of himself as an untiring freedom fighter like Nehru, Lumumba, and Gandhi. He believes in the freedom of world’s nations, especially Iranians, from domestic and foreign domination.
Despite owning a 4000 sqm property, Dr Mohammad Taraghi lives in a very small room and survives off of selling recyclable garbage materials. His ultimate goal however, is turn his property into the “House of Nation “.
Eighty years old man, Dr Mohamad Traghi, is going to bequest his valuable property to the United Nations and earns his living by collecting trash
Potenza International Film FestivalDecember 1st-5th 2009The Potenza International Film Festival will kick off December 1st to 5th with a valuable and exclusive program and many international special guests: the Nobel prize Gao Xingjian, the film critic Enrico Ghezzi, the iranian-canadian director Babak Payami, the russian director Artur Aristakisyan, the indian producer Ram Prasad Devineni, the photojournalist Davide Monteleone and many more!The poetical and provocative performance by Linda Clea...
Sunday 6th of September final day at AsoloArtFilmFestival. At 16.00 in the theatre Eleonora Duse will be screened the extra movie "Terra Madre" by Ermanno Olmi and later on the director Giuseppe Taffarel will get the award for the career Flavia Paulon, which in the last years as been assigned to many famous people as Mario Verdone and Ugo Gregoretti.
At 18.30, the happening continued, still in the theatre Duse, with the proclamation of the winning movies, this year for the first tim...
At the Dhaka International Film Festival (Bangladesh, January 15-23, 2004)The film "The Wind Bird" (Sulang Kirilli) by Inoka Sathyangani (Sri Lanka, 2002)won the Prize of the International Critics (FIPRESCI Prize).Jury members were: Lydia Maslova, Russia Shaheen Kabir, Bangladesh Sajedul Awal, Bangladesh. At the Palm Springs International Film Festival(USA, January 8-19, 2004)the Prize of the International Critics for the Best Official Foreign Language Film of 2003 has been presented to the Retu...
33rd International Film Festival RotterdamJan 21 - Feb 1, 2004AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL-DOEN AWARD AT THE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAMAt the upcoming edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) opening next January 21, the second Amnesty International-DOEN Award will be awarded. This yearly prize given to a film about human rights and human dignity is presented by Amnesty International and Foundation DOEN and consists of a stipendium prize of Euro 5,000 and a modest distribu...
The Hubert Bals Fund is designed to bring remarkable or urgent feature films and feature length creative documentaries by innovative and talented filmmakers from developing countries closer to fulfillment. The HBF provides grants that often turn out to play a crucial role in enabling these filmmakers to realize their projects. In its Fall 2003 Selection Round, Hubert Bals Fund (HBF) of the International Film Festival Rotterdam grants a total of Euro 467,000 to twenty-eight non-Western film-maker...
