From Afar screening

Name: From Afar screening
Start: 2024-07-11T18:30:00-07:00
Location: 300 - 1131 Howe St, Vancouver, BC, Canada, British Columbia V6Z 2L7

Schedule

Thu Jul 11 2024 at 06:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

300 - 1131 Howe St, Vancouver, BC, Canada, British Columbia V6Z 2L7 | Vancouver, BC

Cineworks is proud to present the screening of 𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘈𝘧𝘢𝘳 (2006), a feature film by international award-winning director, writer and producer, Ramin Mohseni.
𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘈𝘧𝘢𝘳 traces the malaise of a young artist and intellectual in three episodes: Book Burning, Breathing, and Dawn. The young protagonist lives in contemporary Tehran and he appears as a film student, an asthmatic businessman and a successful architect. In each story, he journeys toward a spiritual insight or emotion.
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Thursday, July 11th, 2024, at 6:30pm.
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The Black Box Studio at Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society at 1131 Howe Street.
Our entrance is located in the back lane directly behind the Cinematheque, under an overhanging parking lot. Max capacity of 40 people.
Please note that Cineworks only has access to the first three parking spaces starting from our entrance. We kindly encourage anyone driving to our space to consider using metered parking in the surrounding streets or one of the parking lots located nearby. Thank you.
Email [email protected] for more info.
Cineworks would like to thank our generous funders–BC Arts Council, Canada Council, the City of Vancouver, and the Province of British Columbia (Gaming) for making this event possible.
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Ramin Mohseni is an international award-winning film director, writer and producer with more than three decades experience in the film and television industry in Iran and Canada.

Known for his acclaimed arthouse feature film FROM AFAR (2006), winner of a Warrior Jaguar for best film at FICA 2007 in Mexico, Ramin has been the director-producer for historical feature documentary series AZERBAIJAN (2014), an award-nominated fourteen-episodes doc series A SEASON FOR CINEMA (1998), a feature art documentary called KHIALISAZI (1997), and the nationally broadcast popular TV magazine show IRANIAN CINEMA (2002-2006).

Ramin Mohseni is a Director Member at the DGC (Directors Guild of Canada) and Founder-Producer at B.C. production company Azersam Film & Media. Their latest productions include feature documentary PERSIA AND I (2024) and a hybrid experimental feature EXILE which was directed by Ramin in France and Canada and is in post-production now.