Mohsen Makhmalbaf latest film Marghe and her mother with its world premiere at the icon section of Busan Film Festival in Korea, is also competing for the prize as the best film at Vancouver international film festival in Canada, this month.
Busan film festival’s this year new Icon section, which will showcase master filmmakers’ works regardless of their origins alongside Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s world premiere of “Marghe and Her Mother” includes several selections from Cannes and Venice including Bong Joon Ho’s Palme d’Or winner Parasite…
Beside presenting his latest film at Busan, Makhmalbaf is also invited to act as the head of jury for another section of the festival.
“Iranian filmmaker, Mohsen Makhmalbaf (“Gabbeh,” “Kandahar”), Huh Moonyung, program director of the Busan Cinema Center, and Malaysian director Tan Chui Mui Love Conquers All are set as the three jury members for the Kim Jiseok Award. They will select the final two films from the Window on Asian Cinema section, awarding them $10,000 each.” Variety
Earlier, Mohsen Makhmalbaf alongside his wife Marziyeh Meshkiny, co-writer of Marghe and Her Mother, attended the opening ceremony of the festival dressed in Korean traditional costume to pay tribute to Mr. Kim Ji Seok, former BIFF deputy director and highly respected asian film programmer whom passed away in 2017.
“Marghe and her mother: Riffing nimbly on Pasolini’s Arabian Nights, Mohsen Makhmalbaf startles and stuns with his Italian debut. Our protagonist is Claudia (Ylenia Galtieri), an unemployed single mother who gets caught in a maelstrom of whimsy and discontent as she searches for work in Southern Italy. But when this flat-broke twenty-something gets word of a potential acting gig with some local big wigs, things seem to finally be going her way - if only these supposedly wealthy producers weren’t just two opportunists motivated by evidently salacious intentions…
Balancing the picaresque encounters of Claudia with the everyday travails of Marghe, the woman’s hilariously insolent daughter who temporarily takes up residence at a local convent, Iranian master Makhmalbaf refuses to employ the trappings so often associated with stories of the economically downtrodden. Even as his female protagonist is guided through a series of indignities that range from the mundane to the surreal, Marghe and her mother keeps its sights on something far more electrifying, spectacular, and unclassifiable: call it la dolce vita.” Vancouver international film festival.
After the screening of his film at Busan film festival, Mohsen Makhmalbaf will attend the closing ceremony where he will be presenting the awards.
Busan Film Festival closing ceremony is going to take place on the evening of Saturday, Oct 12.
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