A Bit of Light: Salaud Morisset Takes World Sales Paris- and Berlin-based international sales company Salaud Morisset has acquired worldwide sales rights to A Bit of Light, the latest feature from Iranian filmmaker Ali Asgari. The announcement comes ahead of the film’s world premiere in the Main Competition of the 83rd Venice International Film Festival. Deadline reported that Salaud Morisset will represent the film internationally, continuing its long-standing collaboration with Asgari across several of his acclaimed short and feature films. Set in contemporary Iran, A Bit of Light follows a disillusioned doctor whose medical practice is closed after his arrest.

‘Terrestrial Verses’: Cannes Review By Neil Young The quotidian mechanics of social repression are crisply evoked in Terrestrial Verses, the first directorial collaboration between rising Iranian talents Alireza Khatami and Ali Asgari. Premiering in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, this is a compendium of nine steely little vignettes bookended by more cinematic prologue and epilogue segments. Running at a brisk 77 minutes, the film will, given the ongoing global interest in current Iranian matters, have little difficulty obtaining further festival exposure. While there is no doubting the filmmakers’ admirably humanistic and progressive intentions, however, the picture itself somehow ends up less than the

A review of the movie “Terrestrial Verses” by the sortir paris TERRESTRIAL VERSES, A POWERFUL IRANIAN DRAMA WITH A NEW FORM AT THE CANNES FILM FESTIVAL – OUR OPINION A fiction on the verge of a documentary, in the form of ten segments, each telling an aspect of daily life in Tehran, this is what awaits the spectators of Ali Asgari and Alireza Khatami’s mysterious and troubling “Terrestrial Verses”. This Iranian film is presented at the Cannes Film Festival, in the Un Certain Regard section. The Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival is known for hosting some impressively bold nuggets. This

A review of “Terrestrial Verses” by Variety “Terrestrial Verses,” directed by Alireza Khatami and Ali Asgari, is the sole Iranian film premiering in the Official Selection of Un Certain Regard in Cannes Film Festival 2023. The movie marks the first collaboration between these two critically acclaimed directors. Khatami previously wrote and directed “Oblivion Verses” which won best screenplay and the Fipresci prizes at Venice in 2017. Asgari, meanwhile, previously directed “Until Tomorrow” which premiered at Berlin last year, and presented two shorts at Cannes, “More Than Two Hours” in 2013 et “Il Silenzio” in 2016. While the plot remains under wrap, the

Terrestrial Verses at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. Seven Springs Pictures Co., production and distribution company, will be showcasing its latest projects to industry insiders and film enthusiasts from around the world at the Marchè du Film Cannes in 2023. At Marchè du Film Cannes, Seven Springs Pictures Co. will be presenting a slate of exciting new projects, including number of features, short films and documentaries. Among the highlights is “Trestrial Verses”, Also nominated for Un Certain Regard selection at the Cannes Film Festival 2023, which the story follows everyday people from all walks of life as they navigate the

A review of “Terrestrial Verses” by Hollywood Reporter ‘Terrestrial Verses’ Review: Iranian Drama Employs Bracing Inventiveness to Question Authority By Sheri Linden A daunting task faces the protagonists in Terrestrial Verses (Ayeh haye zamini): Each of them is trying to reason with a government bureaucrat or other self-important authority figure. They’re all residents of Tehran, and there’s something specific to Iran in the oppressive regulations and catch-22s that hinder them, but there’s universal resonance, too, in the escalating lunacy and bleak implications. In 10 of the feature’s 11 subtly interlocking segments, a single character faces an offscreen interlocutor. The fixed camera holds

“Mrs. Iran’s Husband” by Marjan Khosravi at the 2023 Hot Docs Festival. “Mrs. Iran’s Husband” by Iranian filmmaker Marjan Khosravi has won the award for best international short documentary at the 2023 Hot Docs Festival. The film is about Sultan Mohammad’s kingdom, which is on the mountain, and it includes two wives, Iran and Sara and 11 children, and his flock of sheep. Like all rulers, he strives to maintain his power and assets, but the role and duty of maintaining his prestige and power lie mainly on the shoulders of his wives. To expand his territory, he intends to