The lullabies

Two Iranian Cinema Projects in Pusan Promotion Plan

Short Film News (SFN)- Two Iranian films are among the selected films in the 11th Pusan Promotion Plan project market.

According to Variety, PPP selected 30 projects more of which are Asian.

The lullabies, a long documentary by Manijeh Hekmat and The Bride by Mona Zandi are the two selected Iranian films for this program.

In addition to reducing the number of the selected projects from 35 projects last year to 30 this year, the selections mostly were among the Asian co-productions.

The selections include only two projects from outside Asia, Crawling at Night from the U.S. and Stranger from U.K., though both have Asian connections.

Nobuhiro brothers from Japan, Zhang Yuan, Cai Shangjun and Zhu Wen from China, Chang Tso Chi from Taiwan, Viet Linh Nguyen from Vietnam and Lee Chang-dong and Zhang Lu from Korea are among the filmmakers selected for the program.

Hekmat's documentary, which is going to take the chance of getting the grant and having the international release, has finished its shooting in Iran and Afghanistan and is in Tajikistan.

The 11th edition of Pusan Promotion Plan project market is related to Pusan Festival and will run October 3-6 in South Korea.

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