Author: Bijan Tehrani

According to a Facebook post by Fariborz Yousefi,  Iranian culture and art supporter in Los Angeles, the legendary Iranian actress Vida Ghahramani has been spending some time during the past few months in hospital, in Los Angeles, where she lives. At Cinema Without Borders we wish her a quick recovery and hope to see her back on stage or on the silver screen. https://youtu.be/FV8LspJJK8s Vida Gharemani qualified and still qualifies for years as the most preeminent actress in late 20th and early 21st century Iran. She entered Persian film during adolescence, debuting in 1958 with a role in the Farsi-language…

17th Hungarian Film Festival, Los Angeles opens on November 2nd and goes on until November 16. Jury members of the festival to pick the Best Feature Film Award are: Susan Morgan Cooper Susan Morgan Cooper is an award winning documentary film Director/Producer. Her highly acclaimed film, An Unlikely Weapon was about Eddie Adams, the photographer who’s photo Saigon Execution was credited with helping end the Vietnam War . For Mulberry Child Susan filmed in China. Roger Ebert called the film powerful and touching. For To the Moon and Back Susan went to Russia to explore the Russian Adoption Ban. The…

17th Hungarian Film Festival Los Angeles will run from November 2 to November 16 screening the latest Hungarian films. After watching a few films of the festival, we strongly recommend attending this amazing festival to all the international film fans. For screening venues and dates please click or touch here. NORTH AMERICAN PREMIEREA Kincsem Record-breaking film about a record-breaking horse, Kincsem, has already been seen by more than 600,000 people in Hungary and is still going strong in cinemas.  This means that it has become the 10th most widely seen Hungarian movie in Hungary since the regime change in 1989. …

GOD’S OWN COUNTRY is the story of Johnny Saxby that works long hours in brutal isolation on his family’s remote farm in the north of England. He numbs the daily frustration of his lonely existence with nightly binge-drinking at the local pub and casual sex. When a handsome Romanian migrant worker arrives to take up temporary work on the family farm, Johnny suddenly finds himself having to deal with emotions he has never felt before. An intense relationship forms between the two which could change Johnny’s life forever. Here is the video of our interview with Francis Lee, writer and director…

Last Thursday, was the opening night of Under the Smoky Roof, a social drama directed by Pouran Darakhshsnde at the Fine Arts Theater, Los Angeles. We had the opportunity to interview the director after the screening. Under the Smoky Roof, is the story of a broken family, Shirin who has problems with her husband and child is searching for a way to communicate with them and solve her family problems but she can not succeeded in that so reaches a crisis. Her second try to get out of this crisis makes her to confront new challenges. https://youtu.be/IQqaf3vAY6M Cast: Farhad Aslani, Merila…

Burbank, CA- October 19 – Last night at the opening and award ceremony of the 18th Polish Film Festival, Los Angeles that was held in Hollywood’s Egyptian Theater Cinema Without Borders received Friend of Festival Award for its 10th anniversary. https://youtu.be/z7HYmcv7Xak Also Susan Morgan Cooper and Bijan Tehrani announced the winners of 2017 Bridging The Borders Award for the Best Polish Short Film at the Polish Film Festival Los Angeles First Bijan Tehrani announced the winner of CWB’s Honorable Mention award: “A married woman picks up one and then another male hitchhiker on her journey. The outcome is very different from…

I knew Houman Seyyedi as a very talented actor until I learned about him as a film director and then came the big suprise. After watching the four movies that has been released from Houman as a filmmaker, I was amazed by the freshness of his approach to filmmaking and new ideas and his great use of language of cinema in telling his stories. https://vimeo.com/238507045 Cinema Without Borders: Do you see the images of your film, before you write your screenplay? Houman Seyyedi: Sometimes people may think that loving some images inspires me to make a movie but this really…

Burbank, California – October 16, 2017: Today Cinema Without Borders  announced Kanopy as the winner of the CWB’s Seal of Excellence Award for the Best International Cinema Streaming Site. Other nominees were  Amazon, Criterion, Fandor, Filmatique, Film Movement, Film Struck, Hulu, Kanopy, kino Lorber, Netflix and Snagfilms . Kanopy received the majority of the jury’s vote, and Criterion came in second. “The jury of Cinema Without Borders is delighted to announce Kanopy as the winner of CWB’s Seal of Excellence Award as the Best International Cinema Streaming Site. Not only does Kanopy carry the majority of the masterpieces of International Cinema, but…

Karestan Documentary Film Series made in Iran, are based on lives and works of people whose outlook on life is to build a better world. Women and men whose life stories can provide inspiration, beyond geographical and cultural boundaries, for anyone in the world. The diversity of these personalities due to gender, type of activity and various places of abode, provides a fascinating rainbow of Iranian society that perhaps has not been seen till now, not just in international societies but also in Iran. Praiseworthy people who, without any government connections, have managed to be influential in improving the conditions…

Here is a video interview with Jonasz Wiewior, the young Polish filmmaker, animator and composer that his short animated film, Blue Inventor will be screened at the 2017 Polish Film Los Angeles. Blue Inventor, 3 min.2017 All American High School Film Festival, New York – Best International Film Award2017 Teen Animation Festival International—Best International Film; First Place in Short Animated Film 3d Category https://youtu.be/xJb6_7O94EM Blue Inventor: Director, Producer, Screenplay writer, Cinematographer, Animator and composer Jonasz Wiewior A small blue creature is about to create bio fuel. Yet, having brought its project to school, it meets with its teacher’s incomprehension and disapproval. In…