Introduction
The Iranian director Ida Panahandeh is shooting a film in Tenri city in 2017.
At the Nara International Film Festival in 2016, her film NAHID was screened as an opening feature-length film in the competition genre. The film was awarded the Grand Prix (Golden Deer award) in the festival.
She visited Tenri to make field research in March 2017. After returning to Iran, she has been writing a scenario for the next film.
Her new film will be screened as a premier in the opening ceremony of the 5th Nara International Film Festival scheduled for September 2018.
Story
After the death of Tatsuya’s only son, the family loses the only male heir to their family name. The tragedy also causes Tatsuya’s wife to leave him. As a result, the family’s sickly mother pressures Tatsuya to remarry, albeit with a woman he is not sure he truly cares for. Tatsuya’s daughter, Yuko, also feels obligated to keep the family going and considers marrying a man as a Mukoyoshi, which means he will adopt Yuko’s family name, yet she is reluctant to do this because of her feelings for someone else. Both Tatsuya and Yuko are caught in a dilemma that forces them to choose between family obligation and their own desires.
Detail
Cast: Masaya Kato, Shizuka Ishibashi, Keita Machida, Hana Hizuki, Kayo Ise, Yohji Tanaka, Kazuko Shirakawa, Nelson Babin-Coy
Scriptwriter: Arsalan Amiri, Ida Panahandeh / Cinematographer: Morteza Gheidi / Music: Masamichi Shigeno / Executive producer: Naomi Kawase
DIRECTOR : Ida Panahandeh
Japan・Hong-Kong / 2018 / 106min / Color / DCP / ENG/JPNSub.
Production: LDH JAPAN, Emperor Film Production Company Limited, Nara International Film Festival Organizing Committe
Japanese Distribution: HIGH BROW CINEMA
Asian Distribution (except Japan): Emperor Motion Pictures
© 2018 “二階堂家物語” LDH JAPAN, Emperor Film Production Company Limited, Nara International Film Festival
Distribution
Director
Ida Panahandeh
Ida Panahandeh was born in Tehran, Iran. She obtained a degree in Film Photography in 2002 and a master’s in Film Direction in 2005, both from the Arts University of Tehran, where she began her film career with several short films. After university she was invited to direct films for Iranian television, with which she won awards at numerous national festivals. In 2009 she took part in the Berlin ‘Talent Campus’. ‘Nahid’ is her first feature and it was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival where it won a special prize (Prix de l’Avenir). It also won the Golden Shika Award at the 2016 Nara International Film Festival. Israfil (2017) is the second feature of Ida Panahandeh.
History
2018
Nara International Film Festival 2018
LOCATION
Tenri City
Tenri city is located in the northern part of Nara Prefecture, the east and west are the major parts of transportation, including Nishi-Meihan Expressway and Meihan national highway, national highway No. 24, national highway No. 169, and Kei-Nawa Expressway. Access to Osaka · Kyoto etc. is also convenient from Tenri Station where the Kintetsu Tenri Line · JR Manyo Mahoroba Line runs and both lines cross. The western part of the city is a livable area included in the Nara Basin, In the eastern mountainous areas, where people live together while being surrounded by rich greenery, agriculture, sports, music and cultural activities are carried out on a daily basis.
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