This year it will be 20 years since Films from the South started. This will indeed be celebrated.
During the award ceremony of Films from the South, two prominent guests were present. Honorary Award winner Hirokazu Kore-eda and actor Payam Madjlessi from the Audience Award winner For a Moment, Freedom.
- The background for wanting to try digital screenings was to find out what this was about, and what digitalisation will mean to festivals and the smaller films, states Julie Ova, Managing director of Films from the South.
We joined the opening party at Fugazi to talk to people about the screening of The Milk of Sorrow, and this year’s festival programme.
In 2009 three people have so far been stoned in Iranian prisons. The last public stoning happened in 2007, when a married couple were sentenced for infidelity – with each other.
The film The Stoning of Soraya M portrays the brutal and oppressive life of women in an Iranian village.
About Elly
Director: Asghar Fahradi
I knew the director Asghar Fahradi for his brilliant Fireworks Wednesday in the 2007 FFS programme. I was impressed by his insight into, feeling for and ability to convey the timeless drama between man and woman. I therefore had substantial expectations for About Elly. And it was a knock-out. I tell you, all adult couples, with or without children. This is an opportunity not to be missed. If you’d like to see a really mature and intelligent, yet serious and humorous play on every emotion involved in a classic family drama, then you must see this film. It is impossible not to be drawn into this universe, and when you’ve got there you’ll be moved. I guarantee it!
Lasse Skagen, Creative Director
