TEHRAN -- Iranian playwright and screenwriter Naghmeh Samini and filmmaker Mona Zandi have traveled to Japan to hold a cultural program on Iranian female filmmakers.
The ten-day program is scheduled to begin tomorrow. Samini and Zandi will travel throughout Japan to deliver speeches and screen a documentary at some of the country’s academic centers, the Persian service of ISNA reported on Monday.
The documentary entitled “Silent Voice”, directed by Zandi, was about the female Iranian filmmakers Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Puran Derakhshandeh, Tahmineh Milani, Marjan Ashrafizadeh and Sudabeh Moradian.
The program intends to explore the path the filmmakers followed to achieve professional success and personal satisfaction in the Iranian cinema.
Zandi is also scheduled to attend a screening of her family drama “Friday Evening” and a review session of the film at the University of Tokyo.
Samini is the writer of “The Paper Cranes”, which will be directed by the Iranian children’s filmmaker Sirus Hassanpur.
In this new film project entitled “The Paper Cranes”, Hassanpur plans to bridge two tragedies: the atomic attack on Hiroshima and the chemical attack on the Iranian town of Sardasht during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.
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