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25 April 2008 at 19 : 18 PM
Silence of the Sea Released
Silence of the Sea, a poignant study of displacement and one of the most successful Iranian films of the new millennium, finally received a theatrical release in Los Angeles at the Vine Theater on April 25th. The film, written and directed by talented Iranian filmmaker Vahid Mousaian, has been selected for more than thirty international […]
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15 April 2008 at 19 : 17 PM
Behrouz Maghsoudlou (1948-2008)
IFVC is deeply saddened to announce that Behrouz Maghsoudlou, architect, producer and Vice President of IFVC, passed away suddenly in Tehran of a heart attack in April. Behrouz, younger brother of President Bahman Maghsoudlou, was a part of the IFVC wing of film production from the very beginning. Behrouz was born in Kashan, Iran in […]
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4 November 2007 at 19 : 59 PM
Ahmad Mahmoud: A Noble Novelist
On November 2, 2007, Ahmad Mahmoud: A Noble Novelist was screened at Wien Technical University in Austria . The Iranian Cultural Society of Austria, which arranged the event, invited the filmmaker Bahman Maghsoudlou to attend. The event also included a screening of Mojgan Roudbarani’s film about Mahin Oskui. After the films were shown there was […]
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22 October 2007 at 19 : 34 PM
International Short Film Festival: Independent Films on Iran — The Awards
The first annual International Short Film Festival: Independent Films on Iran was held at the Asia Society on Park Avenue in Manhattan from October 19 to 21. Attendance met expectations, with several of the programs being sold out, and the audience reaction was uniformly enthusiastic. The festival showed a total of sixty films from nine […]
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8 May 2007 at 19 : 34 PM
Letter from Acting School of Köln
Datum: Tue, 08 May 2007 18:06:24 +0200 An: Film Acting School Cologne Betreff Dear Mr.Bahman Maghsoudlou: We would like to express our gratitude to your wonderful seminar that brought so much to the young,excited, and most interested crowd of our students in International Acting School in Köln. The students were more than just happy to […]
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1 May 2007 at 19 : 15 PM
Announcement
Today we are proud to announce that shooting of the long documentary The Life & Legacy of Mohammad Mossadegh after 22 month around the world is finished and most of the necessary newsreel footage of that era has been located and purchased. All pertinent locations have been shot, we have interviewed one hundred ten people […]
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6 April 2007 at 19 : 56 PM
Lecture in Germany
Monday, April 16th, 2007 — Mr. Maghsoudlou was an invited lecturer on Independent Production and acting at the prestigious Acting School of Koln in Germany. A full house of roughly one hundred people gathered in the small lecture hall that afternoon, comprised mostly of students and graduates, with a handful of filmmakers, journalists and school […]
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12 February 2007 at 19 : 48 PM
International Short Film Festival
International Film & Video Center, in conjunction with the Ziba Foundation, is proud to announce the establishment of the International Short Film Festival: Films by Iranians/Films About Iran to be held in October in New York City. The festival accepts films of 30 minutes and under, and will dispense awards totaling ten thousand dollars. The […]
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10 October 2006 at 19 : 09 PM
The Political Life and Legacy of Mosaddeq
In May of 1951, Mohammad Mossadegh, leader of the liberal nationalist movement in Iran, was democratically elected to the office of Prime Minister. His election was seen as a tremendous victory for those who believed that Iran’s future lay in self-determination and democracy. However, by August of 1953, forces working against Mossadegh and his progressive […]
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12 July 2005 at 19 : 43 PM
Ahmad Mahmoud
Ahmad Mahmoud: A Noble Novelist, the second documentary directed and produced by Bahman Maghsoudlou, premiered at the Berlin Asia-Pacific Film Festival in September of 2004. Since then it has been selected for various film festivals, including the UCLA Film & Television Archive’s 15th Annual Celebration of Iranian Cinema Festival, 2005. This feature documentary is the […]
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