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Cine Club: Wednesday 8 April 2015 (7 pm - Open to ALL)


Title:               At 5 in the Afternoon
Director:        Samira Makhmalbaf (Iran)
Released:      2003
Language:    Persian (Eng S/T)
Duration:      1 hour and 35 min
Key Actors:   Agheleh Rezaie, Abdolgani Yousefrazi, Razi Mohebi
 
Interesting Links about the Film:
Trailer on YouTube Click Here
ITP World Click Here
The Film Journal Click Here
 
Synopsis: (adapted from Wikipedia Click Here)
At Five in the Afternoon (Panj é asr) is a 2003 film by Iranian writer-director Samira Makhmalbaf. It tells the story of an ambitious young woman trying to gain an education in Afghanistan after the defeat of the Taliban. The title comes from a Federico García Lorca poem (which laments the death of a famous bullfighter at that time of the day). It is a tale of flourishing against the odds.
 
At Five in the Afternoon was the first film to be shot in Kabul after the NATO invasion. It was an international co-production between the Iranian company Makhmalbaf Productions and the French companies Bac Films and Wild Bunch.
 
The film premiered at 2003 Cannes Film Festival and was awarded the Jury Prize and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury.
 
Samira's 14-year old sister Hana Makhmalbaf made a documentary about the making of the film, entitled Joy of Madness (Lezate divanegi). It documents Samira's trials and tribulations whilst trying to persuade people in Kabul to take part in her film. As a teenager, Hana was able to amass a lot of digital video footage unnoticed.
  
  
Director: Samira Makhkmalbaf (Adapted from Wikipedia Click Here)
Samira Makhmalbaf (born 1980) is an internationally acclaimed Iranian filmmaker and script writer. She is the daughter of Mohsen Makhmalbaf, the film director and writer. He has written some of the scripts of her films. Samira Makhmalbaf is considered to be one of the most influential directors as part of the Iranian New Wave.
 
She left high school when she was 14 to study cinema in the Makhmalbaf Film House for five years. At the age of 17, after directing two video productions, she went on to direct the movie The Apple. At the age of 20, Samira studied Psychology and Law at Roehampton University in London. In an interview at the London Film Festival in 1998, Samira Makhmalbaf stated that she felt that her film The Apple owed its existence to the new circumstances and changed atmosphere that prevailed in Iran as a result of the Khatami presidency. National Film Theatre, 12 November 1998. In 2000 she was a member of the jury at the 22nd Moscow International Film Festival.
 
Samira Makhmalbaf has been the winner and nominee of numerous awards. She was nominated twice for Golden Palm of Cannes Film Festival for Panj é asr (At Five in the Afternoon) (2003) and Takhté siah (Blackboards) (2001). She won Prix du Jury of Cannes, for both films in 2003 and 2001 respectively. Samira Mohmalbaf also won UNESCO Award of Venice Film Festival in 2002 for 11.09.01 - September 11 and Sutherland Trophy of London Film Festival for The Apple in 1998. In 2003, a panel of critics at the British newspaper The Guardian named Makhmalbaf among the best 40 best directors at work today.
 
 
 

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