L’heure d’hiver Téhéran

For this new edition of “L’heure d’hiver” a focus on Iranian Cinema is offered at CINEMA GALERIES but also in other places in Brussels. The opportunity to dive into the heart of this thriving cinema of singular authors and filmmakers who wonder more than ever about the world and men…

Meetings, unpublished, tributes, performances, exhibitions. A program full of good things, a multidisciplinary event that will warm the winter.

What does Tehran look like? How do people move in the city? How are they living there? How do social classes mix? How does the presence of women fit into the public space? What are the traces of the past, the history of the country, its identity? And how does the city plan for the future?

First impression ? Intimidating. In the street, the Iranian capital is teeming with youth, congested with traffic jams and noisy until late at night. In the city is mingled nostalgia for the shah and worship of Ayatollah Khomeini.

In short, Tehran is brimming with life. The chador is a minority in the north of the city, but there are frequent young women with low veiled, makeup and a small bandage on the nose. The emergence of Californian-style cosmetic surgery in a well-known Islamic Republic is surprising. Yet this tension between modernity and conservatism illustrates the ambiguous relationship between recent history and the Iranian reality.

As the Iranian political news of the beginning of January emerges in our media, that concern is growing about the stability of a country and its relations with other major world powers, it is the the story of the people living there whose testimony we want to make here.

It will take no less than a month and thirty films to discover the capital of Iran and the people who live there. The festival will be divided into 4 major themes:

“The cinema as resistance: new forms to circumvent the laws”
“Iran between modernization and tradition”
“Where are the women? selection made by Fery Malek Madani (Art Cantara) «
“Being Afghan in Teheran”

Among the selected films of the unpublished: Writing on the city will open the festival with a meeting of the director Keywan Karimi.

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INFORMATIONS

DATE | 15.01 – 18.02.18

MEETINGS |
15.01 I 19:00 / Writing on the city I A debate will follow the screening in the presence of the director Keywan Karimi
10.02 I 13:00 :Shortfilms /Attended by Ali Hasanzadeh & Omid Adibparvar @ Cinéma Galeries
11.02 I 13:00 : Teheran, a conceptual art – Mohammad Reza Aslani / Attended by Gita Aslani @ Cinéma Galeries
29.01 I 19:00 : Relationships – Farnaz Jamshidi Moghadam /Attended by director @ Actor’s studio
16.01 I 19:30 : Take me home – A.Kiarostami (2016, 16′) + 76mn and 15s with A.Kiarostami – S. Samadian /Attented by Agnès Devictor @ BOZAR
25.01 I 19:30 : 24 Frames – A. Kiarostami /Attended by Michel Frodon @ BOZAR

FILMS |
See below the complete program in the different places.

EXHIBITION | « Téhéran unevilleau pied des montagnes » & « Kavir ». Free entrance. From Wednesday to Sunday from 13:00 to 20:00. Opening I 18.01 / 19:00

CONCERT | 09.02 I 19:00 Exhibition & Live Show with Sote, Kali & Crat in collaboration with Kavir. 8€ (presales)/10€ (ondoor)

KIDS I Shortfilms from Studio Kanoon-Iran for families

BOOKSHOP I With Tropisme’s bookstore’s contest and Tulitu.

PROGRAM :
@ CINEMA GALERIES
(Saturday/Sunday I 13:00) 8,50 (stand.) / 6,50 (red.) / UGC Unlimited (one hour before the session and subject to availability of seats) / PASS (40€)

15.01 I 19:00 : Writing on the city – Keywan Karimi (2015, 60′)
*Attended by director
20.01 I 13:00 : Goodbye – Mohammad Rassoulof (2011, 100′)
21.01 I 13:00 : The taste of cherry – Abbas Kiarostami (1997, 95′)
27.01 I 13:00 : Inversion – Behnam Behzadi (2017, 84′)
28.01 I 12:00 : Portrait de famille – Morteza Ahadi Sarkani & Mohommad Ali Soleymanzadeh (2013, 45′)
28.01 I 13:00 : Drum – Keywan Karimi (2015, 90′)
03.02 I 13:00 : Leila – Dariush Merjuih (1997, 124′)
04.02 I 13:00 : A separation – Asghar Fahradi (2011,123′)
07.02 I 19:00 : Tehran smile – Golbou Fiuzi (2017 – 52′)
10.02 I 13:00 : Short films (Various Directors)
* Attended by Ali Hasanzadeh & Omid Adibparvar
11.02 I 12:00 : Le petit monde de Bahador – Abdollah Alimorad, Ali Asgharzadeh (…) (2006, 55′)
11.02 I 13:00 : Teheran, a conceptual art – Mohammad Reza Aslani (2012, 76′)
*Attended by Gita Aslani
17.02 I 13:00 : The salesman– Asghar Fahradi (2007, 125′)
18.02 I 13:00 : Beautiful city – Asghar Fahradi (2004, 102′)

@ ACTOR’S STUDIO
(Monday/ Tuesday I 19:00) 8 (stand.) / 7 (red.) / 6 (kids) / UGC Unlimited / PASS (40€)

22.01 I 19:00 : Under the skin of the city – Rakhshan Bani-Etemad (2005, 92′)
23.01 I 19:00 : A waltz for Tehran – Zeinab Tabrizi ( 2016, 53′)
29.01 I 19:00 : Relationships – Farnaz Jamshidi Moghadam (2015, 53′)
* Attended by director
30.01 I 19:00 : Fest of duty – Firouzeh Khosrovani (2014, 60′)
01.02 I 19:00 : Growing up the stairs – Roksareh Ghaem Maghami’s (2011, 52′)
06.02 I 19:00 : I love Tehran – S.Samadian (2011 – 75′)
08.02 I 19:00 :Sonita – Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami (2016, 91′)
12.02 I 19:00 : Teheran n’a plus de grenades – Massoud Bakhshi (2007, 68′)
13.02 I 19:00 : Taxi Tehran – Jafar Panahi, (2015, 82′)
15.02 I 19:00 : Raftan – Navid Mahmoudi (2016, 78′)

@ BOZAR
TRIBUTE TO KIAROSTAMI (16.01 / 25.01 I 19:30)

16.01 I 19:30 : Take me home – A.Kiarostami (2016, 16′) + 76mn and 15s with A.Kiarostami – S. Samadian (2016, 76 min) > 6e (stand.) / 4e (red.) / PASS (40€)
* Attended by Agnès Devictor
25.01 I 19:30 : 24 Frames – A. Kiarostami (2017, 114′) > 10e (stand.) / 8e (red.) / PASS (40€)
* Attended by Michel Frodon

@ ATELIER 210
GALERIES GOES TO 210 (04.02 / 05.02 I 19:30) 8 (stand.) / 6 (red.) / PASS (40€)

04.02 I 19:30 : Close Up – A. Kiarostami (1990, 100′)
05.02 I 19:30 : Persian cats – Bahman Ghobadi (2009, 101 min)