Balkan Can Kino Film Festival, held at the Communitism Cultural Association of Athens, will be screening seven Iranian short animations on Friday.
Founded in 2017, Balkan Can Kino is a space created to introduce new filmmakers. Its aim is to shift the focus from Hollywood and European cinema and represent a wider variety of communities and cultures. The event also holds workshops, round tables and lectures.
“Blows With the Wind” by Hazhir Asadi, “Genesis” by Abtin Mozaffari, “Switchman” by Mehdi Khoramian, “Wuthering Heights” by Shirin Ashtari, “Red Fish” by Kaveh Sistani, “Bystander” by Sheyda Kashi as well as “Empty View” by Ali-Zare’ Ghana’at Noee are the short films selected for the event, Mehr news Agency reported on its Persian website.
The seven-minute “Blows With the Wind” is about a scarecrow that becomes a human. Ten-minute work of Mozaffari, “Genesis,” is a fantasy with a critical view about the war and conflict in Syria.
In the eight-minute “Switchman,” Khoramian shows an old man awaiting his sweetheart to return at a train station. “Wuthering Heights” of eight minutes is an adaptation of the classic Emily Brontë novel of namesake title.
Brontë’s novel revolves around the passionate and destructive love between its two central characters, headstrong and beautiful Catherine Earnshaw and her tall, dark, handsome, and brooding hero/devil Heathcliff.
Five minutes of “Red Fish” tells the story of a man who kills a fish and buries it into the wall.
Nine-minute “Bystander” depicts an old man who is living behind a window through which he sees a dark world and remembers his past when he was a revolutionary.
