Author: Bijan Tehrani

THE DIVINE ORDER, a film by Petra Volpe is Switzerland’s submission for the 2018 Academy Awards – Best Foreign Language Film, and winner of the Audience Award for Best Narrative Film at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival and Best Fiction Film at the 2017 Traverse City Film Festival, THE DIVINE ORDER will open at the Laemmle Royal and Playhouse 7 in Los Angeles on November 17. A national release will follow. We had the opportunity of having a video interview with Petra Volpe, director of the DIVINE ORDER. https://vimeo.com/243164293 THE DIVINE ORDER is set in Switzerland in 1971 where, despite the worldwide…

On November 15th, Butterfly Buzz will present the premiere collaboration of Israeli singer, Yasmin Levy, together with three Iranian guest artists Faramarz Aslani, Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam and Hamed Nikpay at The Theatre at Ace Hotel DTLA, a delicately restored 1920’s movie palace originated by Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin in the heart of historic downtown Los Angeles. To learn more about this event we had an interview with Bita Milanian, The Executive Produce of Art Unites event. https://vimeo.com/242431277 Yasmin Levy is an internationally celebrated singer-songwriter, deeply steeped in the traditions of Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) music, a disappearing musical legacy of the Sephardic…

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…