The 31st Fajr International Film Festival has started today in Teheran. During all Festival will run the Polish Cinema Week. The Iranian public will have the opportunity to watch 7 full length features: “Katyn” and “Man of Iron” Andrzej Wajda, “Time to Die” and “Tomorrow Will Be Better” by Dorota Kędzierzawska, “My Nikifor” by Krzysztof Krauze, “Mill and the Cross” by Lech Majewski and ” Life as a Fatal sexually Transmitted disease” by Krzysztof Zanussi. The programme for the Polish Cinema Week offers also 21 short films, among others the Oscar-nominated “The Cathedral” by Tomasz Baginski, “Confident” by Rafal Kapelinski, “What the Doctors Say” by Michael Wnuk, “Easter” by Monika Jordan-Mlodzianowska, “Heaven” John Matuszynski and “Underlife” Jaroslaw Konopka.
The Fajr International Film Festival, organised since 1982, is considered as the largest film festival in the Middle East. This year’s 31st edition will last till February 10, 2013.
The organisers of Polish Film Week in Iran are the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Tehran, the Polish Filmmakers Association, the Polish-British Films for Young Audiences Foundation, the Polish Film Institute and the Visual Media Institute.
Source: The Fajr International Film Festival and Polish Filmmakers Association
Photo © “Tomorrow Will Be Better” by Dorota Kedzierzawska