"AFTER
WAR"
UNELOFER
PAZIRA GOES BACK TO AFGHANISTAN AS A FILMMAKER
The
Afghan journalist Nelofer Pazira, who acted in the
Iranian film "Kandahar",
by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, goes back to Kabul after 14
years exiled in Canada to direct a documentary, her
first film, about the actual situation of the human
flagellum in Afghanistan after devastating decades
of war. With the success of "Kandahar",
Pazira became a politics activist, coincidently at
the same time of the international movement for the
fall of the Taleban terrorist regime. Next October
she will be also back to São Paulo, this time
as a member of the jury of the 26th São Paulo
International Film Festival.
HANEKE
PREPARES "TIME OF THE WOLVES"
The
Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke, who demolished
moral values with his previous films "Funny
Games", "Code
Unknown" and "The
Piano Teacher", is at the moment shooting
another deranging project: "Time
of the Wolves", about the apocalypse
of contemporary societies.
The
short plot revealed by its producer defines the new
production like this: "The time preceding the
apocalypse, when all values disintegrate and the highest
becomes the lowest, in known in Germanic mythology
as the time of the wolves.
Fleeing
a disaster, a middle-class family (father, mother,
two children) travel from the city to their private
countryside refuge, believing themselves to be escaping
the consequences of the general state of chaos.
Quickly
and painfully, they soon learn how mistaken they have
been. So begins an odyssey through a devastated country,
and their stops on the way appear like the stations
of the cross."
Other
definitions of the production: "An account of
the aftermath, a family story, a road-movie, as well
as a horror film; a story of tomorrow, but also one
of today. Indeed: the story has already begun. More
than this: a legend, namely the story of a sacrifice,
and so a work of hagiology."
DINO RISI IN VENICE
The popular cinema by the Italian Dino Risi will be
finally honored in his own country, according to the
Spanish bulletin Noticine (www.noticine.com). The
initiative comes from the 59th Venice Festival, which
will happen from August 29 to September 8, 2002. For
the first time directed by the multi-European Moritz
de Hadeln, who was born in Great Britain, studied
in France and Italy, founded the Swiss Nyon Festival
and directed the Berlin Festival for 22 years, Venice
will present a new parallel section called 'controcorrente'.
Leon
Cakoff, for 'Jornal
da Mostra
A
jornalista afegã Nelofer Pazira (foto), atriz do filme
iraniano "
