HIFF.ORG HALEKULANI GOLDEN ORCHID AWARD: NARRATIVE FEATURE NOMINEES
NOMINATED FEATURE DIRECTOR AND CAST IN ATTENDANCE
SON OF BABYLON HAWAII PREMIERE sUnDay, OCTObER 17 | 6:30 Pm | REgal DOlE
IRaq 2010 | aRabIC, KURDIsh W/ EnglIsh sUbTITlEs | 91 m DIRECTOR: Mohamed Al-Daradji sCREEnWRITER: Mohamed Al-Daradji, Jennifer Norridge, Mithal Ghazi PRODUCERs: Mohamed Al-Daradji, Isabelle Stead, Atia Al-Daradji, Dimitri de Clercq CInEmaTOgRaPhER: Mohamed Al-Daradji, Duraid Al-Munajim CasT: Yasser Talib, Shazda Hussein, Bashir Al-Majid
In 2003, three weeks after the fall of Saddam Hussein, Ahmed, an energetic 12-year-old Kurdish boy, travels with his grandmother along the dustiest, most secluded roads in northern Iraq. In search of their father/son, a soldier missing since the Gulf War, they head south to Babylon. Along their bumpy way, they encounter the chaotic state of the country but find unexpected allies on similar quests, including one former member of the Republican Guard. Though Ahmed may be too young to understand fully the importance of this journey, his life will be changed forever.
Beautifully directed by Mohamed Al-Daradji, and featuring a magnificent performance from young Yasser Talib as Ahmed, SON OF BABYLON is both a fulfilling cinematic and emotional experience. It is a story of hope and forgiveness; one that palpably, and with great humanity, illustrates reality for many Iraqi and Kurdish people in the aftermath of Hussein’s reign.
THOMAS MAO UNITED STATES PREMIERE sUnDay, OCTObER 17 | 4:30 Pm | REgal DOlE
ChIna 2010 | manDaRIn W/ EnglIsh sUbTITlEs | 77 m DIRECTOR: Zhu Wen sCREEnWRITER: Zhu Wen PRODUCERs: Geng Ling, Zhu Wen,
Wang Jinghua CInEmaTOgRaPhER: Wang Min CasT: Mao Yan, Thomas Rohde- wald, Jingzi, Ye Feng, Gouzi
During the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, the painter Thomas travels from Europe to China to make sketches. On the distant Mongolian grass- lands he meets Mao, who runs a small inn. They spend three days and three nights together, and their inability to communicate leads to awkward- ness and misunderstandings. One day, the two of them have the same strange dream. Dream and reality become steadily more entwined, until they can no longer be separated.
Filled with as many laugh-out-loud farcical gags as high brow visual aesthetics, “THOMAS MAO” is a refreshing aperitif for the artsy crowd yet relatively accessible to an open-minded western audience. Within China’s current filmmaking trends, it juts out like a lone palm tree in a desert oasis. —Hollywood Reporter
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