BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Touran Khanom: Film Screening & Discussion X-WR-TIMEZONE:Pacific Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T074548Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_49180605744151 DTSTART:20250411T010000Z DTEND:20250411T030000Z DESCRIPTION:Join us for a film screening of “Touran Khanom\,” and a dis cussion with the film’s directors Rakhshan Banietemad and Mojtaba Mirtah masb. The film and conversation will be in Persian. Film is 1 hour and 29 minutes and has English subtitles. Ms. Banietemad will join in person and Mr. Mirtahmasb will join via Zoom. \n\nTouran Mirhadi (Khomarloo) is the founder of Farhad School\, the Children's Book Council\, and the Encyclope dia for Young People. She was actively involved with close to 20 other ins titutions addressing child development and education and supported the for mation of dozens of others. She is known as the preeminent architect of th e childhood institution and the mother of modern education in Iran. The fi lm follows the efforts and preoccupations of Ms. Touran Mirhadi in the las t four years of her life. It shows how she strove to enrich the field of c hild education in Iran to the age of 89\, always maintaining that peace wa s to be cultivated at childhood.\n\n\n\nRakhshan Banietemad\, born in 1954 Tehran\, began to make documentaries for the Iranian National Television in 1979\, right after graduating from the University of Dramatic Arts\, Te hran\, and she focused on making only documentaries until 1987. That year she directed her first feature film\, Off the Limits. In 1991\, she became the first woman recipient of the Best Director award for Nargess at Fajr International Film Festival in Iran. In 1995\, she won the Bronze Leopard for The Blue Veiled at the Locarno Film Festival. Under the Skin of the Ci ty\, her next film\, was the highest grossing film in Iran in 2000. This f ilm along with Gilaneh (2005) and Mainline (2006)\, garnered major awards in more than 50 film festivals. While Banietemad’s feature films have be en acclaimed and honored worldwide\, her documentaries have also been succ essful and popular internationally. Our Times… was the first documentary ever to be released in the movie theatres in Iran in 2002. It was also sc reened in highly prestigious and prominent festivals and TV channels such as IDFA\, Sundance Film Festival and ARTE.\n\nIn 2008\, she received an ho norary doctorate from University of London and in 2010\, she was awarded t he Prix Henri Langlois from Vincennes International Film Festival. Her lat est feature film\, Tales\, was awarded the Best Screenplay prize in the ma in competition section of 2014 Venice International Film Festival. More re cently\, she has joined the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences\, Writers Branch in 2017.\n\nBanietemad started her career by making documen taries and has never ended the strong connection she has had with her work . Making documentaries has been her main way of connecting with society an d social issues. Her approach and depiction of social issues has been so s trong and effective that her works have always resulted in causing change in the lives of her documentaries' subjects.\n\n\n\nMojtaba Mirtahmasb is a renowned Iranian documentary filmmaker. Having graduated with a BA in Cr aft Design from the Art University\, he started making films in 1990. He h as conducted research\, written the script\, directed and/or produced for more than 50 documentary films\, including Touran Khanom (2018)\, Six Cent uries Six Years (1998)\, This Is Not a Film (2011)\, Lady of the Roses (20 08)\, Off Beat (2004)\, Back Vocal (2004)\, The River Still Has Fish (2001 ) and The Banner (1996). This Is Not a Film was the outcome of a directori al and production partnership with Jafar Panahi. It first premiered at the 64th Cannes Film Festival (Official Selection) and was on the short list for the best documentary for the 2012 Oscar.\n\nMirtahmasb has won many pr izes including the Crystal Simorgh (Phoenix) and the Jury Award at the Faj r International Film Festival\, the Special Jury Award at the Cinéma Vér ité Film Festival\, Best Documentary Film Award from the Grand Ceremony o f the House of Cinema\, the NETPAC Award\, UNESCO Award for Best Documenta ry Film\, and the Best Experimental Documentary Film award from the US Nat ional Society of Film Critics. Mirtahmasb was Member of the Board of Direc tors of the Iranian Documentary Filmmakers Association (IRDFA) for six yea rs\, serving two years as its chairperson. He is one of the founding membe rs of the Tehran Province Documentary Filmmakers’ Guild. In recent years \, alongside researching and directing his own films\, he has conceived an d produced film projects\, chief among them the Karestan Documentary Film Series. The documentary series Master Class: New Page is his latest ventur e as director and producer.\n\nPart of the Stanford Festival of Iranian Ar ts\n\nStanford is committed to ensuring its facilities\, programs and serv ices are accessible to everyone. To request access information and/or acco mmodations for this event\, please complete https://tinyurl.com/AccessStan ford at the latest one week before the event. LOCATION:In person at Stanford SUMMARY:Touran Khanom: Film Screening & Discussion URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/touran-khanoum-film-screeni ng-discussion CATEGORIES:Film/Screening END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR