Do satellite television, the Internet and digital film offer an escape from censorship in a country like Iran? This what the viewer starts to wonder while watching the Iranian documentary Head Wind.
Ernest Abdyjaparov pokes fun at rural traditions. Shaped into a romantic story, the film makes use of clear light and vibrant colours.Dat giet hij in een romantische vertelling, alles gefilmd in helder licht en felle kleuren.
Now that there is more peace and quiet in his native country, film maker Amor Hakkar sees space for the personal in Algerian cinema. In La Maison Jaune he shows the mourning process of a rural family which suddenly loses its eldest son.
Persepolis is the film version of the autobiographical cartoons in which Marjane Satrapi tells about growing up in Iran and Europe at the time of the fall of the Shah, the Iranian revolution and the war with Iraq.