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Tales of Two Countries

Welcome to the latest edition of the newsletter. In this issue we get ready for Sydney, Canberra, Perth, spotlight the opening in Adelaide, highlight the most colourful film at the festival this year and announce the NETPAC Award Winners for 2016.

Hello Cinema

As we travel onward through Australia, tickets are now available in Adelaide (Nov 3-6), Sydney (Nov 10-13) and Canberra (Nov 11-13). Click on the different city links for tickets!

*Perth dates have been changed to Nov 17-20 due to unforeseen circumstances. The Venue for the festival is Event Cinemas Innaloo. A full schedule will be released soon. Check here for more information.

Festival Opening in Adelaide

The Iranian Film Festival Australia returns to Adelaide in its sixth year for a three day feast for cinephiles. Highlights from the slate include the restoration screening of new wave classic The Brick and The Mirror (1965), auteur Asghar Farhadi's The Salesman which premiered at Cannes and the Close-Up-esque kurdish language film Farewell Analog (Malawa Analog). Iranian cinema has hit the ground running in Adelaide with advanced screenings - don't worry, there is still much more to come with the official opening tonight at Mercury Cinema. Tickets for the opening and the entire program are available now!

Adelaide Tickets Available Here!

The NETPAC Award Winner for 2016...

It gives us great pleasure to announce that the NETPAC (Network for The Promotion of Asia Pacific Cinema) Award Winner for 2016, has been awarded to Saeed Rostaee's Life and a Day. The award included the five films by first and second time directors at IFFA this year. The films were judged by film director of the Brisbane Asia Pacific Film Festival Maxine Williamson (chair), world renowned Iranian-Australian artist and filmmaker Granaz Moussavi (My Tehran for Sale) and film director of Ronin Films Andrew Pike.

In awarding the film to Life and a Day they praised the film as "rich in revelations about the everyday stresses, disappointments, aspirations and humanity of family life in present day Iran." The unanimous second-favourite Farewell Analog was also encouraged by the jury.

Actor Navid Mohammadzadeh from the winning film was on hand to accept the award on the Saeed Rostaee's behalf.

Congratulations Life and a Day, winner NETPAC Award 2016

Festival Highlight

A Dragon Arrives!
(Ejhdeha Vared Mishavad!)

Writer-Director: Mani Haghighi

"I've always been intrigued by something I once read by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze: a good question is a question that persists in all of its answers and forces the answer to ask the question again. Is this a true story? The reason I made this film is for the audience to answer that question and for that question to be a good one."

- Mani Haghighi

1960s Qeshm Island. A government officer arrives on the island to investigate the suicide of a political prisoner. The locals are not forthcoming and a sound recordist who has gone missing from a film shoot and a geologist become involved with the investigation which reaches back into a sixteenth century battle between the Portuguese, the Persians and the British East India Company. Haghighi's surreal "mock-fantasy folk-film-noir" (Variety) is informed by Golestan's new wave The Brick and The Mirror, although it stands alone.

We'll be announcing cinephile treasures on our website and social media throughout the year!

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