With a play entitled ***Moses and Shepherd*** written by Mohammad-Reza Khaki and Directed by Kazem Nazari, the group was invited to Canada along with the scholars of the university to participate in the international event on April 23-29 in the city of Wilfield.
The performance was warmly welcomed by the Canadian and Iranian audiences. Wilfield mayor, who was among the audiences, praised the performance and said that the group offered a spiritual theater to the city. This is the 8th time that the student group has performed abroad.
Ordered by King Fahad of Saudi Arabia, the 180m carpet will be made of fine wool and silk and in twelve colors. It is currently being woven by a group of 80 women to be finished in 15 months. The magnificent carpet will have the design of the dome of Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque in Isfahan.
Washington was plumb in the center of the firing line with the Palme d'Or for best film being announced Saturday widely tipped to go to one of the several movies critical of the United States. The youngest of the 20 directors competing for the coveted Palme, Iran's Samira Makhmalbaf, offered the first of the 12-day festival's batch of movies with a contemporary focus in At Five in the Afternoon set in post-Taleban Afghanistan.
Academy Award winning U.S. director Gus Van Sant next revived the horror of the Columbine School massacre in Elephant, the second year running that the 1999 killing has kept festival-goers glued to their seats, after Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine became a hit following its success at Cannes.
Also full of angst is one of the hot favorites for the prize, Dogville by Lars Von Trier, a dark tale of human morality set in a small U.S. town ending on pictures of the depression years. Then there were just documentaries that brought the crowd to earth with a thud, The Fog of War about Vietnam war-era.
Germany's Wim Wenders showed a new documentary on blues music, The Soul of Man likely to become a new musical hit with tunes and lyrics born during the depression along the Mississippi. And the burlesque closing film, Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times too was described as topical. "It's a film about unemployment", said his daughter Josephine. How relevant after 80 years!
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*TEHRAN -- After participating in the 7th International Student Theater Festival in Canada, the theater group of Arak Azad University became the official member of International University Theaters Association (IUTA).
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