Mehr News Agency, Iran
July 4 2007

Armenian festival to hold retrospective of Jafar Panahi

TEHRAN, July 4 (MNA) — The 4th Yerevan Film Festival, commencing
July 9, is scheduled to honor Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi by
holding a retrospective of his works.

The festival will open with Panahi’s `Offside’ and his other movies
`The Circle’, `The White Balloon’, `Crimson Gold’, and `Mirror’ are
scheduled to be screened during the gala.

Over 68 films including `Aleksandra’ (Russia), `Climates’ (Turkey),
`Flanders’ (France), `Import/Export’ (Austria), `Love Conquers All’
(The Netherlands/Malaysia) and `Yella’ (Germany) are to compete for
the gala’s Golden Apricot award.

`The Banishment’ from Russia will be the closing film of the festival
on July 14.