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Interview with "Maher
Zita ", Jury Member of the International Competition Section
Maheen Zia, the Pakistanis like the Iranian Films
There are many talented Iranian filmmakers, and because of this
subject the Iranian Cinema is attractive.
- What is your opinion about the short film?
From my point of view, short film is an attractive genre of cinema;
and it does not make any difference that its subject is animation,
fiction or experimental.
The main important thing is the attractiveness of this kind of
cinema which caused to express the important and effective ideas in
a short time.
As you could see many of these short films at the different
international short film festivals.
- How do you evaluate the situation of short film festival in the
other countries?
" Maheen Zia " , who graduated from the Universities in USA replied
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I deal with the feature films more than short films, but I believed
that short film festivals should be organized independently along
the feature film festivals.
She added: As a matter of fact, this is my first official visiting
from a short film festival, and I believed that short film should be
screened in the suitable festivals and cinema theaters, this is very
important.
She said that, it is not possible to screen the short film along
with the feature film and should be shown separately.
- How do you evaluate the styles of the Iranian short filmmakers?
"The teacher of university and Director of Kara Film Festival" said:
I could not say anything about the films which I saw because it is
not as enough as I could evaluate, but I like the Iranian Short
Films very much.
Finally, she added: the Iranian short films have been screened in
the festivals of my country and this is because of the interests of
Pakistanis to these films.
I believed, there are many talented Iranian filmmakers, and because
of this subject the Iranian Cinema is attractive.
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