BANGKOK FESTIVAL TO SCREEN DOCUMENTARY ON TABRIZ
Mehr News Agency, Iran
July 3 2007
TEHRAN, July 3 (MNA) — Iranian documentary "Tabriz, Images from the
Forgotten World", directed by Mohammad Ehsani, will be competing in
the Bangkok International Film Festival (BIFF) which will run from
July 19 until 27.
The 36-minute documentary will be screened in the short films section
of the event. It features an Armenian photographer in Tabriz who wants
to depict in photos the last 100-years’ history of the city starting
with the Iranian Constitutional Revolution (1906-11).
"Tabriz, Images from the Forgotten World" was also entered at the
Busan International Film Festival.
BIFF has dropped the animated movie "Persepolis" from its line-up
following the request of Iran’s embassy in Thailand. This movie
tells the autobiographical story of Satrapi when she was growing up
in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution in the 1970s.