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2 September 2003 at 18 : 30 PM
Silence Of The Sea
Silence Of The Sea has been selected for the competition sections of the 18th International Fort Lauderdale Film Festival and the 52nd International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg in Germany. We expect that the film will be selected for many more festivals throughout the rest of the year.
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10 August 2003 at 18 : 11 PM
Ahmad Mahmoud
IFVC’s long documentary about acclaimed Iranian novelist Ahmad Mahmoud; A Noble Novelist, is now in the editing room. Filming had begun in August of 2002 when Mr. Mahmoud, who authored seventeen books in his career, died three months later in the hospital of respiratory failure. It will be Released by the end of the January […]
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5 August 2003 at 18 : 18 PM
Letni Filmova Skola
Bahman Maghsoudlou (IFVC president) attended the 29th Letni Filmova Skola from July 25 to August 3 in Uherskeho Hradiste in the southwest of the Czech Republic. He took part in three programs at the festival: Mr. Maghsoudlou was one of a three-member panel speaking on Death and Media: The Iraq War And Beyond. The others […]
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1 August 2003 at 18 : 02 PM
Iranian Cinema: Searching For The Roots (1900-1979)
Iranian Cinema: Searching For The Roots (1900-1979), a long in production, completely comprehensive documentary about Iranian film up to the revolution, is nearing completion. Over 100 people have been interviewed for this project, including such renowned figures as Andrew Sarris, Richard Pena, Godfrey Chesire, as well as prominent members of the Cannes, London, Berlin New […]
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28 July 2003 at 18 : 36 PM
Love and Liberty In Cinema
Mr. Maghsoudlou’s new book, Love And Liberty In Cinema will be published in September of 2003. The book consists of detailed examinations of three classic films: Jean Renoir’s Grand Illusion, Max Ophül’s Letter To An Unknown Woman, and Luis Buñuel’s Tristana. His next literary project will be Grass: Untold Stories, a companion book to the […]
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16 June 2003 at 18 : 46 PM
Ta’zieh & Ahmad Shamlou
Two IFVC long documentaries, Ta’zieh: Another Narration and Ahmad Shamlou: Master Poet Of Liberty, are scheduled to be broadcast on the Canadian Learning and Skills channel the fall of 2003.
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15 February 2003 at 18 : 37 PM
Silence Of The Sea
Silence Of The Sea, the second feature by Mr. Vahid Mousaian, premiered at Fajr Film Festival and was one of three films selected for the international competition section. IFVC will release this film internationally in spring of 2004.
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25 July 2002 at 18 : 08 PM
Moscow Film Festival
Bahman Maghsoudlou made an appearance at the 2002 Moscow Film Festival, serving as both a film critic and film historian, as well as giving a press conference. At the same festival, Wishes Of The Land, the first feature by Mr. Vahid Mousaian, an up-and-coming filmmaker discovered by IFVC, was awarded the Special Jury Prize.
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21 September 2001 at 13 : 29 PM
Foreign, Classic Titles Thrive at NYC’s International Film & Video Center
New York – If you’re strolling down New York’s First Avenue in search of a video store, you’re liable to miss the little white storefront at 54th Street that is International Film & Video Center (IFVC). Unless, of course, you’re a fan of its eclectic mix of classic and foreign films not available at the […]
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5 February 2001 at 17 : 12 PM
Film Database
When IFVC began in the early ’80s, there were only a few hundred titles available on video, but from the beginning we had a firm criteria as to which titles should be selected for our inventory. The first concern was that the most important directors be represented with every possible title from their canons that […]
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