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sat 19 nov 6.00 pm Murnau Filmtheater
sun 20 nov 8.15 pm Programmkino Rex Darmstadt PARADISE Iran/Germany 2015 100 min Farsi original version with German subtitles Script: Sina Ataeian Dena, DoP: Payam Sadeghi, Editors: Sina Ataeian Dena, Mohammad Tavakoli, Production: Bon Voyage Films, Sina Dena Films, Producers: Yousef Panahi, Sina Ataeian Dena, Amir Hamz, Cast: Dorna Dibaj, Fateme Naghavi, Fariba Kamran, Nahid Moslemi, Roya Afshar, Hoshang Ghovanloo Every day Hanieh travels long and tedious hours to get to the suburbs of Tehran where she works as a teacher at a girls’ primary school. She tries to get shifted to a school inside Tehran but the paperwork seems stuck in bureaucratic channels. Increasingly exhausted by her paralysing everyday life and the two-faced reality she subliminally experiences as a woman, an employee, a younger sister and unhappy partner. "A humdrum but quietly affecting character study chronicling everyday sexism in today’s Iran, PARADISE (MA DAR BEHESHT) introduces a promising new writer-director from the country in Sina Ataeian Dena." (The Hollywood Reporter) |
Biography: Sina Ataeian Dena, born in 1983 in Ahvaz, Southern Iran, quitted his studies in Physics and started working in film, made short animations and video arts, worked as visual-effects and video supervisor in cinema and theater, as well as a story developer for computer games. With his thesis "The Influence of Comic Books on Cinema" he got his B.A. in Film from Sooreh University Tehran in 2008. In 2009, his animation ESPECIALLY MUSIC won "Best Film" in the international competition of Tehran Short Film Festival. He then directed several concerts, commercials, TV cartoons and documentaries. PARADISE is his feature film debut and the first part of his Tehran trilogy about violence.
Filmography (selection): 2009 ESPECIALLY MUSIC (short film), 2015 PARADISE Awards: Ecumenical Prize and Swatch Art Peace Hotel Award for Best First Feature (International Film Festival Locarno, Switzerland 2015), Special Jury Award (Marrakech International Film Festival, Morocco 2015) Contact: |
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