Tehran, May 5, IRNA - The Parvin Etesami Film Festival will be held from September 13-19 in Tehran after a one-year hiatus.The Iranian Artists Forum will host this festival, which highlights films on womens issues, the secretary of the festival Maziar Rezakhani explained during a press conference on Sunday morning, the English-language daily ?Tehran Times? said on Monday.
The organizers of the festival plan to select a woman filmmaker as the best Iranian female director of the past two years.
Rezakhani said that they will likely be adding an international section to the festivals program.
The Farabi Cinema Foundation will be the organizer of the international section if the plan is implemented.
The entries will compete in short film and feature film sections, the executive director of the festival, Farnaz Qeisaripur, said during the conference.
The Iranian NGO, Home for Protecting Iranian Female Artists, and the Iran Cinema Organization are the main organizers of the festival, which was named after Parvin Etesami (1907-1940) to commemorate the Iranian poetess.
Parvin Etesami was born in Tabriz and composed her first poem in the classical style when she was only eight years old. She received her high school diploma from the American Girls School of Tehran and also taught at the school for two years.
Her poems focus on themes of social awareness and the human aspect of life with simple yet insightful allegorical elements. There are no signs of romanticism or feminism in her works, although she lived in the period when Iran was beginning to modernize.
By IRNA
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