Tehran, June 21, IRNA -- The Eighth Parvin Etesami Film Festival will be held from September 13-19, 2014. Enthusiast can submit their entries to the festival?s secretariat until July 4.
The festival highlights films on women?s issues, the secretary of the festival Maziar Rezakhani said earlier, according to Iran Daily?s Sunday edition.
The entries will compete in short film and feature sections, known as the Golden Lily and Silver Lily as well as other sections such as ?the influence of women on families? and ?distinguished Iranian women?.

The organizers of the festival plan to select a woman filmmaker as the best Iranian female director of the past two years.

An Iranian NGO, Home for Protecting Iranian Female Artists, and the Iran Cinema Organization are the main organizers of the festival, which was named after Parvin Etesami (1907-1940) to commemorate the Iranian poetess.

Etesami was born in Tabriz and composed her first poem in the classical style when she was only eight years old.

Her poems focus on social awareness and the human aspect of life with simple yet insightful allegorical elements. There are no signs of romanticism or feminism in her works, although she lived in the period when Iran was beginning to modernize.

By IRNA

 

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