{"id":111476,"date":"2023-08-01T11:42:13","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T05:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iranmirrorbd.com\/en\/?p=111476"},"modified":"2023-08-01T11:43:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T05:43:30","slug":"melbourne-intl-film-festival-picks-films-from-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iranmirrorbd.com\/en\/2023\/08\/01\/melbourne-intl-film-festival-picks-films-from-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne Intl. 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Yet, all is not quite what it seems.<\/p>\n<p>Taraneh Alidoosti and Navid Mohammadzadeh deliver compelling, psychologically driven performances in Haqiqi\u2019s highly anticipated follow-up to his black comedy \u201cPig\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTerrestrial Verses\u201d by Ali Asgari begins with a controversy over the naming of an infant and moves through stories of everyday people facing off against the system, from a frustrated, politically censored filmmaker to a teenage girl who \u2013 in one of the film\u2019s most daring episodes \u2013 confronts her school after being caught with a boy on a motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo Bears\u201d by Jafar Panahi is a docudrama about a Turkish couple who are procuring fake passports to cross the border into Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMast-del\u201d by Maryam Tafakori and \u201c48 Hours\u201d by Azadeh Musavi will also be screened in the short films section of the festival. \/T.T\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five Iranian films will go on screen at the 71st edition of Melbourne International Film Festival, which will be held in the Australian city from August 3 to 20. \u201cSubtraction\u201d, \u201cTerrestrial Verses\u201d and \u201cNo Bears\u201d will go on screen in the main section of the festival. Directed by Mani Haqiqi, \u201cSubtraction\u201d follows driving instructor Farzaneh, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranmirrorbd.com\/en\/2023\/08\/01\/melbourne-intl-film-festival-picks-films-from-iran\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Melbourne Intl. Film Festival picks films from Iran<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-5"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Melbourne Intl. 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