Iranian film competes in Denmark fest

Denmark's new CPH PIX film festival will showcase an Iranian feature film among 12 other movies, which are present in the festival's main competition program.

The film to represent Iran is the 76-minute A Light in the Fog which stars Parivash Nazariyeh and is directed by Panahbarkhoda Rezaei. The 2008 movie recounts the story of a widow, Rana, who lives in a rustic house with her aging father and repairs items such as lanterns for the locals.

Rana's father suggests she consider marrying their distant neighbor Rahmat, and consider she does, as she goes about her everyday tasks of checking fishing nets, lugging coal and caring for her aging dad in the remote, fog-cloaked mountains.

Denmark's CPH PIX international feature film festival will be screened across Copenhagen's cinemas from April 15. The festival is centered at Dagmar Cinema, which will exclusively show festival films during the event, and which will host a number of exciting director Q&A sessions, parties and more.

CPH PIX will go on until April 25 and screen no less than 185 new, original, thought-provoking, funny and controversial films from all over the world. The winner will walk away with 50,000 euros ($67,500).

According to the festival's official website, the 12 films selected for the competition section are:

- 'The Artist', Mariano Cohn, Gaston Duprat, Argentina (2008)
- 'Gigantic', Matt Aselton, USA (2008)
- 'Crush and Blush', Kyoung-mi Lee, South Korea (2008)
- 'A Light in the Fog', Panahbarkhoda Rezaei, Iran (2008)
- 'Katalin Varga', Peter Strickland, Romania (2009)
- 'Be Good', Juliette Garcias, France (2008)
- 'Helen', Christine Molloy, Joe Lawlor, Ireland (2008)
- 'Moon', Duncan Jones, UK (2009)
- 'Without You I'm Nothing', Florian Eichinger, Germany (2008)
- 'Guidance', Johan Jonason, Sweden (2009)
- 'North', Rune Denstad Langlo, Norway (2009)
- 'The Blessing', Heidi Maria Faisst, Denmark (2009)

Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=122915§ionid=351020105.