Author: Bijan Tehrani

At Cinema Without Borders we had the opportunity of talking to the Academy Award winner director of The Promise, Terry George about the process of making it. The Promise happens in 1914. As the Great War looms, the mighty Ottoman Empire is crumbling. Constantinople, the once vibrant, multicultural capital on the shores of the Bosporus, is about to be consumed by chaos. https://youtu.be/vHaxt_FpPvY Michael Boghosian (Oscar Isaac), arrives in the cosmopolitan hub as a medical student determined to bring modern medicine back to Siroun, his ancestral village in Southern Turkey where Turkish Muslims and Armenian Christians have lived side by…

The 12th edition of SEEfest opens at the Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills with gala screening of Croatian film The Constitution on April 27 at 7:00 PM and runs for a full week through May 4 at Laemmle’s Music Hall, Goethe-Institut, and West Hollywood Library campus. Join the festival audience and enjoy 8 days of screenings, panels, the Business of Film Conference, events and networking. https://youtu.be/wZ7YBnyMeuE To buy your festival pass go to the festival site. Your pass gives you access to all films and events, conversations with festival guests, Opening and Closing galas. Don’t miss this year’s great…

TOMMY’S HONOUR is based on the intimate and powerfully moving true story of the challenging relationship between “Old” Tom Morris (BAFTA winner Peter Mullan) and “Young” Tommy Morris (Jack Lowden, DUNKIRK, ’71, DENIAL), the dynamic father-son team who ushered in the modern game of golf. As their fame grew exponentially, Tom and Tommy, Scotland’s Golf Royalty, were touched by drama and personal tragedy. At first matching his father’s success, Tommy’s talent and fame grew to outshine his father’s accomplishments as founder of the Open Championship in 1860, his stellar playing record, and his reputation as the local caddie master, green…

A team of young Iranian animators are creating an exciting and interesting animated project, called DOT (Noghte). To finance this project, they are using crowed financing, new for fundraising in Iran. Please look through the introduction video of this project and if you find it interesting help the DOT production team to make this project come to life. Bijan Tehrani, Editor in Chief of Cinema Without Borders https://youtu.be/6mqLEvp-ZFg https://www.payping.ir/mohammadzare https://telegram.me/dotanimatedshort http://www.mohammadzare-animator.ir/

BRIMSTONE is a triumphant epic of survival set in the searing wilds of the Badlands, the menacing inferno of the  old  American West.  A tale of powerful womanhood and resistance  against  the  unforgiving cruelty of  a  hell  on earth.  Our heroine is Liz, carved from the beautiful wilderness, full of heart and grit, hunted by a vengeful Preacher – a diabolical zealot and her twisted nemesis. But Liz is a genuine survivor; she’ s no victim –  a woman of fearsome strength who responds with astonishing bravery to claim the better life she and her daughter deserve. Fear not. Retribution…

Lincoln in the Bardo is a New York Times VR project based on a book by George  Saunders and written and directed by Graham Sack. In Lincoln in the Bardo, American master George Saunders delivers his most original, transcendent, and moving work yet. Unfolding in a graveyard over the course of a single night, narrated by a dazzling chorus of voices, Lincoln in the Bardo is a literary experience unlike any other. February 1862. The Civil War rages while President Lincoln’s beloved eleven-year-old son is gravely ill. In a matter of days, Willie dies and is laid to rest in…

FOAD (Norway), a timely piece about refugees by Iranian born director Farzad Samsami is now available to watch for public. FOAD won HP’s 2014 Bridging the Borders Award, presented by Cinema Without Borders for helping to bring the people of our world closer together.  Addressing the audience at the award ceremony at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, Bijan Tehrani, Editor in Chief of Cinema Without Borders said:  ” FOAD takes the audience on a tragic-but-eye-opening journey about a young African kid that lives in extreme poverty, but has a dream; a dream for a better life in a better…

Almost a week after the Oscar award ceremony and announcement of the Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman as the winner of the Best Foreign Language Oscar, there is heated debate in social media over this film and its Oscar. There are many that claim there has been a strong political motivation behinds awarding the Oscar to the Salesman. https://vimeo.com/226594597 To clarify this matter we had the opportunity and honor of speaking to Mr. Albert Wolsky, an Academy Award winner, about the process of selecting the the Best Foreign Language film and the quqlities of the Salesman. Albert Wolsky has won the…

Just a few seconds after Shirley MacLaine announced the Oscar winner for the Best Foreign Language Film Award, The Salesman from Iran, Cinema Without Borders posted the video of this announcement in its Facebook page. To this moment, this post has received over a million people, 1,015,625, and this number is going up every second that passes by. The video has been watched over 243,000 times and 3612 people have shared the video, the post has over 3600 likes and more than 300 comments. Since the Oscar nomination announcement of Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman, it has been the center of…

Miami Film Festival is coming up early March and to learn more about the festival we interviewed its Executive director and director of programming Jaie Laplante. Jaie Laplante is an internationally recognized leader and influencer in film culture. As a critic and journalist in Canada in the late 1980s, he published more than 400 pieces on contemporary commercial and international art cinema for a variety of publications, and first championed his career-long efforts to organically connect regional audiences with homegrown artists, recognizing it as an essential component of maintaining and building the medium’s power.  During this time, he became one…