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Director Rostami And Italian Producer To Joint-Venture In
“Kirkuk’s Flower”
TEHRAN, July 15 (MNA) -- Iranian filmmaker Jamil Rostami and
an unnamed Italian producer will jointly produce “Kirkuk’s Flower”, an Iraqi
Kurd-focused film.
Iranian Kurd Fariborz Kamkari will direct the film and the whole cast will be
made up of Iraqi Kurds, Rostami told the Persian service of the Iranian Students
News Agency on Saturday.
“The film’s production crew will be selected from Iranian and European artists
and the actors will speak in Kurdish,” he added.
“Kirkuk’s Flower” is about the development of underground operations against
Saddam Hussein in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk after the massacre of
Kurdish people by Baathists in 1988 and 1989.
Last week, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani attended the premiere of Rostami’s
previous film “Requiem of Snow” featuring Kurdish villagers who pray for rain in
Sulaymaniyah. The movie is scheduled to be screened in Erbil and Dohuk in Iraqi
Kurdistan.
The film was screened in Iranian theaters last year in February. However,
Rostami criticized cultural officials for the unsuitable timing of the screening
as well as for the small number of cinema halls allocated to the film.
Rostami has also directed “Jan-i-Gal”, a feature-length movie focusing on the
Iraqi Kurdish author Ibrahim Ahmed.
Several months ago, Rostami published an announcement in Iranian newspapers in a
quest to find plots for use in a series of 15 short films about Iraqi Kurdish
people to be produced by young filmmakers.
“I have received many story lines and the young filmmakers will begin working
soon,” Rostami said.
