Tove directed by Zaida Bergroth , is Finland’s 2021 Oscar entry. Tove is also screened online this weekend at the Scandinavian Film Festival LA. In the midst of her artistic struggles and unconventional personal life, Tove Jansson found worldwide success from an unexpected side project: the creation of the beloved world of the Moomins. Helsinki, 1945. The end of the war brings a new sense of artistic and social freedom for painter Tove Jansson. Tove’s desire for liberty is put to the test when she meets theatre director Vivica Bandler. Her love for Vivica is electric and all-consuming. As she…
Author: Bijan Tehrani
Bijan Tehrani
Bijan (Hassan) Tehrani Founder and Editor in Chief of Cinema Without Borders, is a film director, writer, and a film critic, his first article appeared in a weekly film publication in Iran 45 years ago. Bijan founded Cinema Without Borders, an online publication dedicated to promotion of international cinema in the US and around the globe, eighteen years ago and still works as its editor in chief. Bijan is has also been a columnist and film critic for the Iranian monthly film related medias for 45 years and during the past 5 years he has been a permanent columnist and film reviewer for Film Emrooz (Film Today), a popular Iranian monthly print film magazine. Bijan has won several awards in international film festivals and book fairs for his short films and children's books as well as for his services to the international cinema. Bijan is a member of Iranian Film Writers Critics Society and International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI). He is also an 82nd Golden Globe Awards voter.
The 22nd Scandinavian Film Festival L.A. (SFFLA) due to pandemics will be held online. On January 7-10 and January 14-17 and January 21-24 SFFLA and Scandinavia House New York will bring you “TOP FILMS FROM THE TOP OF EUROPE.” from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia Features (mostly Oscar contenders) and shorts that you can watch them online. To learn more about the festival we had an interview with festival’s director and founder James Koenig: Bijan Tehrani: Please tell us about the 2021 Scandinavian Film Festival LA during the pandemic James Koenig: Facing the 22nd year of Scandinavian Film…
Canberra, Australia – December 24th 2020 – Today Veteran Film Festival announced Trust Frank, an Australian short film directed by Penny Moore as the winner of Cinema Without Borders’ GoE Bridging The Borders Award sponsored by Go Energistics. 2020 Veteran Film Festival due to the pandemic was held online. Here is our GoE Bridging The Borders Award jury statement: “We had many exceptional nominees for the GoE Bridging the Borders Award at the 2020 Veteran Film Festival. These films offered rich and powerful stories, all centered on Veteran experiences around the world, and choosing a winner was a challenge of its…
The fourth NY Kurdish Film And Cultural Festival is only four days away! This year’s festival will feature films from four parts of Kurdistan, music, dance, poetry, live events, and talks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjnLNJ5j2gA Please remember that ticket proceedings will go to the Kurdish Red Crescent, Heyva Sor a Kurdistane as they are providing shelter and food and mending wounds for hundreds and thousands of people in refugee camps. In 2019, during the three days festival, $3000 we raised over to donate to Heyva Sor. Finally, festival will send secure links to those who purchase tickets, To learn more about 2020 NY…
Winner of 2020 Bridging The Borders Award for 21th edition of Polish Film Festival, LA has been announced today. 2020 Polish Film Festival, LA was held online due to the pandemic. Cinema Without Borders jury picked Ondine (Odyna) directed by Tomasz Śliwiński for the Honorary Mention and The Dress (Sukienka) directed by Tadeusz Łysiak as the winner of the GoE Bridging The Borders Award. GoE Bridging The Borders Award Jury Statement: “We had twelve nominees for the GoE Bridging the Borders Award for Best Polish Short Film at the 2020 Polish Film Festival, LA. Each film was unique and told…
Hossein Ghafari, an Iranian sound engineer, is also a photographer. Whenever he is part of a crew, shooting a film in location, Hossein uses any opportunity to takes pictures of not only behind the scene, but also the location itself. Lately Hossein Ghafari was on a set of a television series in the south western state of Lorestan. Lorestan’s nature offers spectacular panoramas made of famous Zagros mountains, hundreds of water falls and springs and silk green vast plains. Hossein Ghafari has managed to record the beauty of Lorestan in his pictures. https://vimeo.com/474226515 Hossein Ghafari was born in Tehran, Iran…
Last week at the 2020 Lucas International Festival for Young Film Lovers in Germany, the Cinema Without Borders jury announced the winners of the GoE Bridging The Borders Award, as well as their Honorable Mention . The LUCAS Festival’s award ceremony was one of the rare cinematic events that was held in the presence of a small number of audience members during the Covid-19 Pandemic era. Yeganeh Taheri, Cinema Without Borders’ representative in Germany, read the GoE Bridging The Borders Award jury statement announcing the jury’s Honorable Mention recipient. “The seven nominees were all interesting films. One standout story is about a young boy…
Looking at Rodrigo Garcia movies and television work, most of critics are looking to find an influence of his father, Colombian Nobel-winner writer Gabriel García Márquez or other people that he was raised around, such as Neruda and Luis Buñuel. But Rodrigo Garcia proves his independent way of thinking through his work. To me Rodrigo is as important to the world of filmmaking as his father was to the world of literature. I think the world of cinema needs to look at his work again to get my point. After writing film critic for over a half a century and…
Finding a reliable VPN service has been a constant problem, and it has taken me over 10 years to discover the promised one. A constant problem we experienced with VPN services was a complete lack of support services. Some VPN services would paint a rosy picture by offering support services for a couple months, and then dropping the ball on any kind of support or in some cases—by charging the customers. Another important issue with a VPN service is the ability of the developers to update their software in order to deal with the and other problems that new operating…
Reza Kamrani is an Iranian photographer that lives in city pf Tehran. Reza Kamrani was born and grew up in Kerman, one of the cities on the edge of the central desert in Iran. Naturally, he was influenced by his surroundings and by studying the architectural functions in each Climate Kamrani realized that desert architecture is a very clever answer to the needs of patient and hardworking desert people, allowing them to have better life in spite of the harsh nature around them. https://vimeo.com/456948011 While studying cinematography at the School of Television and Cinema, with the guidance of his teachers…