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Small Crime (Mikro egklima) Snapshots of Life in Contemporary iran
CYPRUS / GERMANY /
Returning to feature filmmaking after a few-year hiatus, Cypriot film-
My Little Country My City, Pizza
GREECE
maker Christos Georgiou (Under the Stars) offers up impeccable timing,
Director: Abbas Mohammadi Director: Ala Mohseni
Director: Christos Georgiou
a folksy soundtrack, and all the quirky small-town characters necessary
Iran / 2008 / 26 min. Iran / 2008 / 26 min.
Producers: Thanassis Karathanos,
to give this little comedy a big heart.
Constantinos Moriatis,
As the Taliban moved into Afghanistan following Who would have imagined that Tehran’s piz-
Christos Georgiou
Small Crime centers on rookie cop Leonidas, who rides his scooter
the withdrawal of the Soviets, many Afghanis were zerias would become the battleground between
MS: A to Z
Screenwriters: Christos Georgiou,
around the remote Greek island of Thirassia from the site of one petty
displaced and fled to surrounding countries. One cultural traditions and global tastes? In Ala
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Srdjan Koljevic
offense to another – nude sunbathers and speeding teenagers dominate
of these countries was Iran. In My Little Country, Mohseni’s often funny documentary, My City, il
Cinematographer: Yorgos Giannelis
his humdrum beat. As the days drag by, Leonidas applies for a transfer
documentary filmmaker Abbas Mohammadi enters Pizza, mozzarella becomes the rope in a tug of
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Cast: Aris Servetalis,
to Athens – but the discovery of the body of the town drunk, Zacharias,
the classrooms of so-called autonomous schools, war between the old and the new. While many
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h Vicky PapadopoulouEditor:
started in 1981 by Afghanis without permits or traditionalists chock the newfound passion for
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Isabel Meier
at the base of a cliff turns his mindless chores into actual detective work.
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funds from the host government as a means of fur- pies up to the decline in home cooking, others
2008 / color / 85 min.
Against the wishes of the police captain, Leonidas starts to assemble
nishing refugee students with a sense of belonging point out that it’s quite simply delicious. Either
clues, imagining different scenarios as to how Zacharias died and who
in a country not their own. Although the diplomas way, it’s clear that, as each side attests, “Iranians
are not accepted for higher education in Iran, they love their food” – enough to start a food fight
ChriSToS GEorGiou
might be responsible. But each vignette is more ludicrous than the last,
are honored in Afghanistan – along with the hope over it.
Born in London, Christos Georgiou
and he makes little headway until he teams up with TV talk show host-
grew up in Cyprus and now works
ess Aggeliki, a hometown beauty who mysteriously returns to the island
of repatriation.
in Athens. He received his BA from from Athens the night after the crime. When the two stop a bulldozer
the University of Warwick in 1989.
from tearing down Zacharias’s house, they realize the cover-up might go
In 1993, Georgiou received his
straight to the top – the office of the town mayor. Then again, Leonidas Behind the Wheel of Life
MFA in film directing from Leeds
Metropolitan University and received
finds, the key to it all could also be standing right next to him.
Director: Sahar Salahshour
a scholarship to study directing
Iran / 2008 / 26 min.
at the Polish National Film School
in Lodz. Channel Four in Britain
Sponsored by:
The spunky divorced mother of a teenager mea-
selected several of his short films for
sures her independence in the miles she logs in her
broadcast. His first feature, Under
taxi: “It’s my whole life and support,” she claims.
the Stars (2001), won the Best First
The freedom rather than drudgery of her life is the
Feature Film Award at the Montreal
World Film Festival. Small Crime is his
focus of Sahar Salahshoor’s documentary Behind
second film.
the Wheel of Life, whether she’s picking up a fare
or dropping off her son at school. As she navigates
the congested streets of Tehran, riding through the
night in a colorful hijab, we see a modern Iranian
woman asserting herself within the parameters of
Muslim tradition.
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