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| Directors: Dariush Mehrjui
("Dear Cousin Is Lost") and Mohsen Makhmalbaf ("Testing
Democracy") Script: Dariush Mehrjui ("Dear Cousin Is Lost"), Mohsen Makhmalbaf and Shahabodin Farokh Yar ("Testing Democracy") Cinematography: Mahmoud Kalari ("Dear Cousin Is Lost"), Mohsen Makhmalbaf and Shahabodin Farokh Yar ("Testing Democracy") Cast: Khosro Shakibai, Mohamad Reza Sharifinia, Ali Mosaffa, Negar Foronzadeh ("Dear Cousin Is Lost"), Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Shahabodin Farokh Yar ("Testing Democracy") Producer: Mohsen Gharib  Production: Kish Tourism Organization International distribution: Makhmalbaf Film House, Tehran Mohsen Makhmalbaf Boycott Bread and Flower Kandahar Marriage of the Blessed Once Upon a Time, Cinema Testing Democracy from ('Tales from an Island') The Actor The Cyclist The Day I Became a Woman The Door (from 'Kish Tales') The Peddler |
Iran, 200, 76 min, color The film is composed of two parts: "Dear Cousin Is Lost" and "Testing Democracy" 
Awards: Venice 2000 - Section "New Territories"
A production of the Kish Tourism Organization, which also screened the omnibus feature "Tales of Kish" at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival, Tales of an Island contains two short films set on Iran's offshore, duty-free island. The first, Dariush Mehrjui's "Dear Cousin Is Lost," blends farce and romance to tell the story of an actor who has repeated visions of his drowned cousin flying through the sky as a film crew shoots around him. The second story, Mohsen Makhmalbaf's "Testing Democracy," is a politically charged indictment of censorship that begins on the set of Makhmalbaf's short film "The Door" and ends in a campaign room.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
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MOHSEN MAKHMALBAF One of the most popular and influential Iranian filmmakers is born in 1957 in a poor neighborhood in Tehran. At the age of 15, he quit school to provide for his family. He became involved with a militant terrorist group battling against the Shah's regime. at the age of 17 he was sentenced to die after stabbing a policeman. Ultimately, his youth allowed him to escape the fate of a firing squad, and after serving only five years of his sentence he was freed in the wake of the country's 1979 Islamic revolution. After his release Makhmalbaf helped establish an artists' group known as the Center for the Propagation of Islamic Thought, and he became a prolific writer of plays, essays, short stories, and finally screenplays. His first filmed script was 1981's "The Explanation", filmed by Manuchehr Haghaniparast and he directed his first feature "Nassouh's Repentance" in 1983. Throughout the remainder of the decade, he wrote and directed roughly one film a year, each wildly different in style and content. With 1986's "The Peddler", Makhmalbaf first began attracting international film-festival attention. With 1990's "Time of Love" and its immediate follow-up, "The Nights of Zayandeh Roud", he also came under the scrutiny of the censors, which promptly banned both features. While making 1993's "The Actor", a satire of the media in contemporary Iran, his first wife burned to death in a domestic accident (he later married her sister Marzieh Meshkini). With 1996's "Gabbeh", he even found U.S. distribution for his work. Makhmalbaf was also the subject of several documentaries, among them Abbas Kiarostami's "Close-Up". 1983 Tobeh Nosuh 1984 Do Cheshman Beesu 1984 Este'aze 1986 Boycott 1987 Dastforough 1989 Bicycleran 1989 Arousi-ye Khouban 1990 Nobat e asheghi 1991 Shabhaye Zayendeh-Rood 1992 Nassereddin Shah, Actor-e Cinema 1993 Honarpisheh 1995 Salaam Cinema 1996 Gabbeh 1996 Nun va Goldoon 1998 Sokhout 1999 Ghesse Haye Kish - segment "The Door" 2000 Tales of an Island - segment "Testing Democracy" 2001 Safar e Ghandehar DARIUSH MEHRJUI Iranian director, born in Tehran in 1940. Graduated in philosophy from UCLA. After returning home begins his film career. 1966 Almaas 33 1967 Gaav 1968 Postchi 1970 Aghaye Hallou 1978 Dayereh Mina 1980 Hayate Poshti Madreseye Adl-e-Afagh 1981 Shirak 1990 Hamoon 1990 Ejareh-Nesheenha 1993 Sara 1995 Pari 1996 Leila 1998 Derakhte Golabi 1999 Baanoo 2000 Tales of an Island - segment "Dear Cousin Is Lost" 2000 The Mix |
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