Tehran, March 11, IRNA – The feature film `Fish and Cat’, directed by Shahram Mokri and produced by Sepehr Seifi, will be screened at the 43rd annual New Directors/New Films festival in New York, IRNA reported on Tuesday.
Being as the most credited cinema event in North America, this annual film festival, co-curated by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art, celebrates the most innovative voices in filmmaking.

Based on the show line-up, the Fish & Cat will be on show at the Walter Reade Theater in the Film Society of Lincoln Center on March 27 and at the Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1 of New York Museum of Modern Art on March 28.

Since the 2013 Venice International Film Festival, when it was screened for the first time overseas, Cat & Fish has been displayed in other 13 selected international festivals, winning five awards. It is believed that it will be among the most successful Iranian movies internationally in 2013.

A bold experiment in perpetual motion with an enigmatic time-warp narrative, Fish & Cat plays out as one continuous shot, with the camera moving among a host of characters at a remote forest and a nearby lake.

Gradually subverting a gruesome premise drawn from a real-life case of a backwoods restaurant that served human flesh, the film builds an atmosphere of tension as a menacing pair descend on a campsite where a group of college kids have gathered for a kite-flying festival. But as the camera doubles back and crisscrosses between characters in real time, subtle space-time paradoxes suggest that something bigger is going on. Brilliantly sustained, Fish & Cat is further evidence of a new generation of filmmakers emerging in Iran.

By IRNA

 

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