The films will go on screen in different categories of the festival.
“The Slaughter House” by Abbas Amini, “Careless Crime” by Shahram Mokri, and “Suddenly a Tree” by Safi Yazdanian will be competing in the Asian Film Competition.
“Kiarostami and His Missing Cane” by Mahmudreza Sani, “Cinema Shahr-e Qesseh” by Keyvan Ali-Mohammadi, “The Black Cat” by Karim Mohammad-Amini, “Amphibious” by Borzu Niknejad and “The Badger” by Kazem Mollai are entries to the Cinema of the World. This section also features “Hotel New Moon”, a co-production between Iran and Japan by Takefumi Tsutsui.
A section named Women Filmmakers will be screening “Seeking Lost” by Fereshteh Tavakkoli, “Tirishko” by Shakiba Khaleqi, “Fukushima Traveler” by Masumeh Nurmohammadi Qomi, “The Visit” by Azadeh Musavi, “The Dark Days” by Nilufar Zaman, “Bandar Band” by Manijeh Hekmat and “Interview” by Hanna Jalali.
Also in the Children’s Cinema section, ‘The Blue Girl,’ directed by Keyvan Majidi; ‘Train That Night,’ by Hamidreza Qotbi; ‘Born of the Earth,’ by Mojgan Bayat, and ‘The Ocean Behind the Window,’ by Babak Nabizadeh will hit the silver screen.
“The Blue Girl” by Keivan Majidi, “That Night’s Train” by Hamidreza Qotbi, “Born of the Earth” by Mojgan Bayat, “Gando” by Teymur Qaderi, and “The Ocean behind the Window” by Babak Nabizadeh are entries to the Children’s Film Session.
The Short and Independent Film Section will also be screening “Witness” by Ali Asgari, “Tale of Ebi” by Hooman Fakhteh, “The Dreamer” by Mehran Hemmatzadeh, and “Eye” by Mahshad Vali.
In addition, Pouran Derakhshandeh’s ‘Under the Smoky Roof’; ‘Hush… Girls Don’t Cry,’ ‘Serial Dreams,’ ‘Little Bird of Happiness’ and ‘The Eternal Kids’ will be reviewed in the Retrospective section of the 19th Dhaka festival.