Category Archives: Film

When We Leave (Der Fremde) – Germany’s official Oscar entry for Best Foreign Language Film.

Date: starts Friday, January 28th
Theatre: the Angelika Film Center (18 West Houston St.@ Mercer St., NY, NY 10012,212-995-2570)
Tickets: buy

The Story

When We Leave is a powerful tale that follows a young Turkish woman’s complicated battle to emancipate herself from an abusive Muslim husband and regain her personal freedom. She leaves Istanbul to return to her family in Berlin. With little support and a young son in tow, she is forced to risk her life, and sacrifice her family’s love, in the name of the independence she so deeply desires.

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Film documentary: “Caught Between Two Worlds” depicting the diverse lives of Iranians in the US


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Date: Thursday, January 27, 2011
Time: 8pm
Venue: Zora Art Space (315 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11215, (718) 832-4870)
Ticket: donation

Caught Between Two Worlds is a documentary that depicts the diverse lives of Iranians in the US who make up a nation in exile. They live in Los Angeles, New York, Washington D.C. and other US cities. Many of them left Iran after the 1979 revolution, the departure of the Shah and the start of the Islamic Republic. They are artists, political activists, journalists, academics, Moslem and Jewish, young and old. The film shows the complexities of the Iranian experience in the U.S. for those who have made it their home.

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Music documentary film “Punk: Attitude” released on DVD!!!

Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

Punk music has always been about attitude and anarchy, more than any other genre of rock music. Punk: Attitude, which  was officially released on the 25th of April 2005 at the Tribeca Film Festival in the U.S.A.,  is a documentary film by UK’s DJ, musician and film-maker Don Letts.

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A documentary film: Live From Tokyo – Tapping Into the Tokyo Music Underground!

Date: October 29, 2010
Venue: Asia Sociey (NY)
Presented by Asia Society and New York-Tokyo

Text by Jim Hoey   
 
What first caught my eye about the film Live From Tokyo was the mention of these obscure Japanese bands that most people I meet from Japan have never heard of: Kirihito, the Boredoms (or one of their side projects) or eX-girl. Float these names to your average Japanese visitor in New York and you get a blank stare or some polite response, just like if an American visits Tokyo and some crazed Japanese music-obsessive with a knowledge of enough English starts to ask questions about Lightning Bolt, Sonic Youth, Fugazi, the Minutemen, or Faith No More. The average guy on vacation is just like, “Sorry man, I don’t know those bands”. And if you meet someone who DOES, and YOU are the obsessive, you have an instant connection and end up in a long conversation about what’s new and on the way up, and you feel good exchanging information that has yet to permeate the further layers of the cultural experience elsewhere in the world.

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Women’s Voices from the Muslim World: A Short-Film Festival in Los Angeles, March 17-19, 2011.

A collection of voices from women of all faiths living in Muslim-majority countries and Muslim women living as minorities around the world that fills the void in information created by traditional news, media and art sources. In competition for cash prizes of $35,000 and the opportunity to be featured in the Women’s Voices Festival in Los Angeles, March 17-19, 2011.

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