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The 29th International Istanbul Film Festival (April 3-18, 2010)
Me and Istanbul
by Ali-Nour Mousavi


 

It all started on Fireworks Wednesday  in Abu Dhabi. Sauntering among Iranian friends, who were observing the occasion at a coastal area in the capital city of the United Arab Emirates, I saw Peter Scarlet, director of the Middle East International Film Festival (which will be called Abu Dhabi International Film Festival from this year on), who was accompanied by his Iranian wife. He told me that he was going to Turkey to judge films at International Istanbul Film Festival. Turks had apparently decided to make up for Scarlet’s favor in allocating a section in last year’s Middle East Film Festival to Turkish films. Since I had never been to Turkey before; I found the combination of spring in Istanbul and an international film festival too tempting to resist especially since Istanbul had been announced “the European Capital of Culture” in 2010.
  So, I packed up and set off to Turkey. The flight was scheduled for 03:00 and I arrived in Istanbul at 07:00. After having breakfast at the hotel, I had no time to rest as Tehron (made by Nader Takmil Homayoun, the Iranian director living in France) was on screens that morning. After sipping a cup of Turkish coffee, I went to the theater. Most theaters screening festival movies were located on Esteqlal (Independence) Avenue where my hotel was fortunately located. I found it a boring movie with a tedious screenplay. The main forte of the film was a cameo played by Atila Pesiani. Poverty and prostitution in big cities can be depicted in an attractive, yet shocking, way as was the case with Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire or Ja'far Panahi’s The Circle. I hope the young director’s next features would be more impressing...

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