http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/eighth_festival/toolbar_menu/NonCompetition/SpecialScreenings Sun, 19 May 2024 07:56:38 GMT /skins/default/en/15festival/ch01_newsfeed_logo.gif http://old.irandocfest.ir/ 100 70 en Copyright© Irandocfest.ir, all rights reserved Sun, 19 May 2024 07:56:38 GMT Special Screenings 60 http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/396/the-man-who-saved-the-louvre Synopsis: At the dawn of World War II, a resistance group organizes an incredible exfiltration of masterpieces from the Louvre Museum to save it off the Nazis’ hands. The man leading the operation is Jacques Jaujard, the Louvre Museum’s director. Jaujard had an extraordinary personality and was madly in love with art. ]]> Special Screenings Sat, 29 Nov 2014 13:11:06 GMT http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/396/the-man-who-saved-the-louvre http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/395/the-look-of-silence Synopsis: Through Joshua Oppenheimer’s work filming perpetrators of the Indonesian genocide, a family of survivors discovers how their son was murdered and the identity of the men who killed him.   ]]> Special Screenings Sat, 29 Nov 2014 13:10:22 GMT http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/395/the-look-of-silence http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/394/see-no-evil Synopsis: Jos de Putter portrays the daily lives of three famous senior chimpanzees, inhabitants of a retirement home for elderly apes. They are Cheeta, the world’s most famous ape and last survivor of the Tarzan films, Kanzi, the smartest ape on the planet, and Knuckles, hero of the space age. We, humans, have trained them and used them, but they might have something surprising to teach us   ]]> Special Screenings Sat, 29 Nov 2014 13:09:26 GMT http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/394/see-no-evil http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/393/remnance-of-madness Synopsis: There’s Khady,a woman whose writings and filmed images don’t succeed in saving her from torment. Her, who would so much like to know how to name that evil twirling in her mind.   ]]> Special Screenings Sat, 29 Nov 2014 13:08:43 GMT http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/393/remnance-of-madness http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/392/poop-on-poverty Synopsis: Set on the edge of the Thar Desert and in the middle of world’s biggest camel fair, this film looks at the underbelly of one of the most visited and photographed tourist destinations in the world.   ]]> Special Screenings Sat, 29 Nov 2014 13:08:00 GMT http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/392/poop-on-poverty http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/391/national-gallery Synopsis: NATIONAL GALLERY is the portrait of a place, its way of working and relations with the world, its staff and public, and its paintings. In a perpetual and dizzying game of mirrors, film watches painting watches film.   ]]> Special Screenings Sat, 29 Nov 2014 13:07:20 GMT http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/391/national-gallery http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/390/my-name-is-salt Synopsis: The desert extends endlessly – flat, grey, relentless. There is not a tree or blade of grass or rock. But there is one thing in abundance: salt. Salt is everywhere, lying just beneath the cracked, baked surface of the earth. This is the Little Rann of Kutch, 5000 sq kms of saline desert in India.   ]]> Special Screenings Sat, 29 Nov 2014 13:06:41 GMT http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/390/my-name-is-salt http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/389/joy-of-man-s-desiring Synopsis:  Director Denis Côté dubs his essayistic film “an open-ended exploration of the energies and rituals of various workplaces.” It captures the work and leisure activities of various employees, whom the director shows engaged in both varied and monotonous tasks.   ]]> Special Screenings Sat, 29 Nov 2014 13:05:46 GMT http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/389/joy-of-man-s-desiring http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/388/crop Synopsis: By putting images of Egypt’s political leaders into historical perspective, the film reveals how the notion of image ‘framing’ has been utilized by state-controlled media up until the present day.    ]]> Special Screenings Sat, 29 Nov 2014 13:05:05 GMT http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/388/crop http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/387/balkan-spirit Synopsis: Filmmaker Hermann Vaske and philosopher Slavoj Žižek take us along a rollercoaster ride through the creative world of the Balkans, seen by their artists.   ]]> Special Screenings Sat, 29 Nov 2014 13:04:17 GMT http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/387/balkan-spirit