Author: Bijan Tehrani

Victory’s House conveys a known fact, new nations are rarely born in peace… India, 1947: Lord Mountbatten (Downton Abbey’s Hugh Bonneville) is dispatched, along with his wife Edwina (Gillian Anderson), to New Delhi to oversee the country’s transition from British rule to independence. Taking his place in the resplendent mansion known as the Viceroy’s House, Mountbatten arrives hopeful for a peaceful transference of power. But ending centuries of colonial rule in a country divided by deep religious and cultural differences proves no easy undertaking, setting off a seismic struggle that threatens to tear India apart. With sumptuous period detail, director Gurinder…

At Cinema Without Borders we had the opportunity of interviewing VALÉRIE MÜLLER and famed French dancer/choreographer ANGELIN PRELJOCAJ, directors of the Polina in a phone interview and create a video from the audio of the interview and footage from the film. https://vimeo.com/231979649 Rigorously trained from an early age by a perfectionist instructor, Polina (played by Anastasia Shevtsova, a professional dancer who has performed with Saint Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre) is a promising classical ballet dancer. She is just about to join the prestigious Bolshoi Ballet when she discovers contemporary dance, a revelation that throws everything into question on a profound level. Diverting…

San Francisco: Parviz Shafa, the legendary Iranian film historian and film critic passed away at the age 79. He is known for his extensive research on cinema and work of directors like Hitchcock. He wrote numerous books and articles all through his life that have been admired and been very popular in Iran.   He belonged to a generation that made Iran the second country after France to honor filmmakers as authors. His articles on Hitchcock are among the best written resources about this master of filmmaking. Parviz Shafa was also a professor at the University of Tehran. ;

Cinema Without Borders announced Jury members and nominees for 2017 Bridging The Borders Award for the Best Polish Short Film at the Polish Film Festival Los Angeles Twelve short films from Poland have been nominated for the 2017 Award: A LONG TIME AGO IN SILESIA (Dawno temu na Slasku) by Tomasz Protokowicz, ADAPTATION by BArtosz Kruhlik, FRAGMNET by Miroslaw MAczur, HOT AND COLD (Cieplo-zimno) by Marta Prus’ MICE AND RATS (Myszy i szczury) by Kacper Anuszewski, MY PRETTY PONY by Maciej Barczewski , ON THE ROAD (Na drodze) by Bartosz Nowacki , ROMANTIK by Mateusz RAkowicz, SUMMER (Lato) by Martyna…

I started working as a construction worker at the age of six. I was working along with ten other workers building a housing project in a Tehran suburb. My life was limited to carry red bricks for other workers; I was carrying bricks from dawn to sunset and even in my dreams. The only joy of my life was listening to the stories of Mashdi, an old worker. Mashdi loved to tell us the stories of his old days working in the movie theaters. During the silent movie era, he had worked as an interpreter of the captioned text for the…

Siggraph, the greatest computer graphics & animation show in the world that also show cases the latest in virtual reality was held in Los Angeles Convention Center between 1 to 3 of August. I had the opportunity of visiting the show and have a brief look at the show floor and focus on an amazing product for our audience, iClone 7 from Reallusion. Following the release of iClone 7, Reallusion now announces iClone 7 real-time face and body motion capture, featuring partnerships with Faceware Technologies and Xsens.  iClone 7 simplifies mocap with dedicated tools and UI for recording actors in…

GOOD NEWS! We have received an email from Nelson Ghrenassia, producer of the Short Film, French, winner of  HP Bridging The Borders Award, indicating that it goes for Oscar consideration: ” I’m Nelson, happy producer of the short film « French » by Josza Anjembe, 2016 winner of the wonderful Bridging the Borders Award 2016 in Palm Springs. Since Palm Springs, where the film has been shown as an International Premiere, this short has been selected in more than 100 festivals, and been awarded by 30 awards… In may 2017, we had the chance to win the Grand Jury Award at the prestigious…

Finally, after ten years we are giving Cinema Without Borders a new look, and an innovative base for developing new ideas to help international cinema. But of course, everything comes at a price, our old links will not work anymore, but we have a solution for you. When you try the old link, it takes you to a page with 404 error (page not found), in that page and above the Cinema Without Borders Banner, enter the article info in the search box and it will take you to the new link for that. Also, our new version has a…

Radio Dreams, a UK film directed by Iranian/British filmmaker, Babak Jalali had a very successful release in US and to find out more about making of Radio Dreams, we had a video interview with Babak Jalali. Radio Dreams creates the odd yet very real world of PARS-FM – a Farsi-language radio station broadcasting from the heart of San Francisco. The story unfolds over a single day as the station’s program manager, Hamid – a brilliant, misunderstood Iranian writer (played by the “Iranian Bob Dylan” Mohsen Namjoo) – prepares for a triumphant broadcast – a live performance pairing Metallica and Kabul…

Evzen Kolar, a friend of international cinema has left our world. At Cinema Without Borders we offer our deepest condolences to his family and friends, he will surly be missed. The following article about Evzen Kolar has been published in Screen Daily Evzen Kolar, the Czech-born producer of The Boys & Girl From County Clare and City Of Industry, has died in California after a brief illness. He was 67. Kolar was born in Moravia in the Czech Republic to a diplomat and got his first taste of entertainment as a child actor, before becoming an assistant director in Europe on…