Interviews An interview with Pedro Cabeleira about Damned Summer, winner of LocarnoWorld Cinema Reports' Editors08/10/2017
MAN ON WIRE, Wins the Best Documentary Feature OscarBy Bijan Tehrani02/22/200910 Mins Read Hollywood, California – February 22, 2009 – Tonight Man ON Wire won the Best Documentary Feature Award at Academy Award…
Revanche, Oscar Nominee (Austria)By Bijan Tehrani02/19/200911 Mins Read Revanche starts in a late summer. A small lake in the woods. No people. Silence. Not far away, a newly…
The Baader Meinhof Complex, Oscar Nominee (Germany)By Bijan Tehrani02/19/200911 Mins Read The Baader Meinhof Complex happens in Germany in the 1970s: Murderous bomb attacks, the threat of terrorism and the fear…
The Class, Oscar Nominee (France)By Bijan Tehrani02/16/200910 Mins Read The Class is the story of François and his fellow teachers prepare for a new year at a high school…
The Garden, Nominated for documentary Feature OscarBy Bijan Tehrani02/12/20099 Mins Read The fourteen-acre community garden at 41st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles is the largest of its kind in…
GomorrahBy Bijan Tehrani02/05/20097 Mins Read Power, money and blood: these are the values that the residents of the province of Naples and Caserta confront every…
Waltz With Bashir, Oscar Nominee (Israel)By Bijan Tehrani01/29/20097 Mins Read One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased…
"I wanted LAST STOP 174 to be a Charles Dickens film in the streets of Rio" Bruno BarretoBy Bijan Tehrani01/27/200911 Mins Read Last Stop 174 starts in Rio de Janeiro, 1983. Marisa, a drug addicted mother in her early twenties is breastfeeding…
Niloofar, a different look at Honor KillingBy Bijan Tehrani01/24/20099 Mins Read Niloofar is a twelve-year-old Iraqi girl whose dream is to read and write in a village where education is only…
The Necessities of Life, Canada’a Oscar SelectionBy Bijan Tehrani01/15/20099 Mins Read The Necessities of Life deals with an essential question: “What does a human being need to live?” The film uses…