Film Festival “Sinfronteras” in Medellin, Colombia
Posted by By ifvc at 4 June, at 19 : 29 PM Print
The first Sinfronteras Festival International de Cine was held in Medellin, Colombia from May 28th to June 8th. The festival’s aim is to promote understanding of social subjects through contemporary films, with a different subject highlighted each year. This year’s theme was children and their treatment in the movies. Twenty-five movies from different countries along with a variety of documentaries were shown in seven movie houses, universities, museums and other cultural centers.
Bahman Maghsoudlou, the Iranian film director, producer and historian, was among the distinguished guests. He delivered a lecture at the Medellin Modern Art Museum on June 4th for a full house of students and cineastes about the way children have been used in Iranian films. His lecture was well received and was followed by a Q&A about Iranian cinema that lasted until midnight.
Richard Pena, director of the New York Film Festival, and Adriana Fresquest, the Argentinean-Brazilian director of the “Cinema to Learn and Unlearn” project of the Federal University in Rio de Janeiro were the other lecturers. Two Iranian films were screened at the festival: Life in Fog by Bahman Ghobadi, a production of IFVC, and Buddha Exploded in Shame by Hanna Makhmalbaf, a House of Makhmalbaf Production.
