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Czech Animation Day at ELAC on April 15th – How to attend

By Sam Tehrani on 03/23/2023 Feature Story, Videos

East Los Angeles College, Cinema Without Borders Foundation and Consulate General of Czech Republic Los Angeles present the Eight Edition of ELAC International Animation Day dedicated to the Czech Animation on Saturday April 15th from 12:30 PM to 4 PM. Screenings will be held at East Los Angeles College, located at 1301 Avenida Cesar Chavez, Monterey Park, CA 91754., Building S1 Screening Room 112. Free parking will be available in Structure 4. On corner of W Floral Drive and Collegian Avenue. ELAC Czech Animation Day is open to public based on advance online reservation. Please reserve your seat and RSVP…

TOP GUN: MAVERICK” Sells a false narrative

By CWB News Department on 03/11/2023 Feature Story

I haven’t gone to see a movie in a theater for years. Not because I don’t like movies or going to the theater or watching a movie in a theater (and eating movie theater snacks!) but because I’ve been busy writing a dissertation and having babies. It seemed like too much effort to go see a movie when you could stream the latest ones while sitting on your couch. For one thing, you’re not paying a babysitter, and instead of nachos with Velveeta cheese, you can have samosas and chaat (I do miss theater popcorn though). But when “Top Gun:…

Berlin Film Festival Winners

By CWB News Department on 02/25/2023 Feature Story, Videos

Veteran French docmaker Nicolas Philibert was the surprise winner of the Golden Bear at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, taking the prize for his film “On the Adamant,” a poignant observational study of a Paris mental health care facility. https://youtu.be/b43bHQb0UFE He received the award from jury president Kristen Stewart, after the star offered an extended and plainly heartfelt ode to the film’s humanity and simplicity: “People have gone in circles for thousands of years trying to pin down what can be deemed art, who’s allowed to do it and what determines its value,” she said, citing the boundary-pushing nature of the festival, and…

Dirty Difficult Dangerous, wins 2023 MOZAIK Bridging The Borders Award at Palm Springs International Film Festival

By Bijan Tehrani on 01/16/2023 Bridging The Borders Award, Feature Story, Videos

Burbank, CA – January 16th 2023. Today Palm Springs International Film Festival announced its 2023 winners and Dirty Difficult Dangerous (France, Italy, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Qatar) directed by Wissam Charaf won MOZAIK Bridging The Borders Award. The Honorary Mentions went to The Happiest Man in the World (Macedonia Belgium Slovenia Denmark Croatia and Bosnia) directed by Teona Strugar Mitevska The Borders Award is presented by Cinema Without Borders and award sponsored and prize provided by MOZAIK The winner of Bridging the Borders Award will receive a cash prize of $2500. In the following video message, Keely Badger the Executive…

Houman Seyedi talks about World War III, Iran’s Oscar Entry

By CWB News Department on 12/13/2022 Feature Story, Videos

In World War III, Iran’s Oscar entry directed by Houman Seyedi, Shakib is a homeless day laborer who never got over the loss of his wife and son in an earthquake years ago. Over the last couple of years, he has developed a relationship with a deaf and mute woman, Ladan. The construction site on which he works today turns out to be the set of a film about the atrocities committed by Hitler during WWII. Against all odds, he is given a movie role, a house and a chance at being somebody. When Ladan learns about this, she comes…

Look at Me, a conversation with Sally Potter

By Bijan Tehrani on 11/16/2022 Feature Story, Videos

In Look at me, a short film directed by Sally Potter, a fundraising gala becomes the arena for a struggle between two men; one, the gala director (Chris Rock) and the other, a failing rock drummer (Javier Bardem). As their battle for expression and control escalates, against a relentless rhythmic backdrop (featuring tap dancer Savion Glover) their public and private selves explosively collide. The following is our interview with Sally Potter about making of Look at Me: https://vimeo.com/771842658 Sally Potter made her first 8mm film aged fourteen. She has since written and directed nine feature films, as well as many…

Clarissa’s Battle, a battle over the child protection

By CWB News Department on 05/21/2022 Feature Story, Videos

In Clarissa’s Battle, Social Justice Warrior Clarissa Doutherd leads a tenacious battle to build a coalition fighting for desperately needed child care and early education funding. Clarissa’s Battle will be screened in person at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, New York on Saturday, May 21, 8:00pm, Film at Lincoln Center, Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center and on Sunday, May 22, 5:15pm, Film at Lincoln Center, Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center. Digital screening is available any time between May 20-26, 2022 on the festival’s digital streaming platform. The following is our interview with Tamara Perkins, Director and Sara Maamouri, Producer…

Why I am under the spell of the 34 years old Cinema Paradiso?

By Bijan Tehrani on 05/10/2022 Feature Story, Videos

In November 2014, I was lucky to meet the great Giuseppe Tornatore, director of the Cinema Paradiso and a supporter of Cinema Without Borders Foundation mission, for the second time in Los Angeles and interview him. The occasion was celebration of the 25th anniversary of Cinema Paradiso release at the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles. Mr. Tornatore was a kind and humble man, answering all the questions even he seemed to be very tired from his long travel from Italy to Los Angeles. He knew our International Editor, James Ulmer, himself a public figure, and he was aware of…

As far as I Can Walk wins MOZAIK Bridging The Borders Award at 2022 SEEfest

By Bijan Tehrani on 05/07/2022 Feature Story, Videos

As far as I Can Walk, from Serbia, Luxembourg, directed by Stefan Arsenijević, won MOZAIK Bridging The Borders Award at the award ceremony of 17th Edition of the SEEfest, South East European Film Festival LA Also SUGHRA’S SONS from Azerbaijan and France, directed by Ilgar Najaf received CWB’s jury Honorary Mention MOZAIK Bridging The Borders Award is offered by Cinema Without Borders Foundation and sponsored by MOZAIK Philanthropy. The award ceremony was held in LA’s Fine Arts Theater and Bijan Tehrani, Vladek Juszkiewicz and Susan Morgan Cooper, MOZAIK Bridging The Borders Award jury members announced the winning film: “We had…

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