Iranian film The Tales directed by the country’s leading woman filmmaker Rakhshan Bani-Etemad is set to be screened at the 22nd Hamburg International Film Festival in Germany.
The film is programmed to be displayed at the main competition section of the festival on September 29, 2014.
The Tales received the Best Screenplay award at the 71st International Venice Film Festival recently held in Italy.
The drama contended for the Golden Lion Award with some 20 other productions at the main section of the Italian festival.
The Tales is composed of seven short episodes, in which Bani-Etemad reveals the fate of some of the main characters in her previous films like The Blue-Veiled, Under the Skin of the City and Mainline.
Best-known for addressing social problems in her films, Bani-Etemad has directed numerous feature-length and short films as well as documentaries, which have garnered many international and national awards.
“The characters in my films are real, [from among] the people whom I might meet every day,” she had earlier stated.
Omid Toutounch’s debut feature film Neurasthenia will also represent Iranian cinema at the main competition section as well as the competition section for first and second films of the event.
The Turkish award-winning movie Winter Sleep directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan has been selected to open this year’s Hamburg film festival. The film won the 2014 Golden Palm at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Hamburg international film festival is the third largest film festival in Germany, after the Berlin International Film Festival and Filmfest München.
The 2014 edition of the festival is programmed to take place from September 25 to October 4.
By Press TV
