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Iran's “My Mother, Oak” received an honorable mention at German fest
TEHRAN, May 14 (MNA) -- The Iranian film “My Mother, Oak” received an honorable mention in the DOK.horizonte section of the Munich Documentary Film Festival which ran from May 4 to 11.
Directed by Mahmud Rahmani, the movie is a poetic film about a loner, memories of a lost environment and a condemnation of the ecological damage brought about by a dam project.
A production of the Khuzestan Department of Art Bureau, the documentary was warmly received at the festival, Rahmani told the Persian service of Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) on Friday.
When the Karun-3 dam in Southwest Iran was put into operation, more than 12,300 acres of forest disappeared under the waves. High up in the Zagros Mountains, the impoverished villagers illegally fell oak trees to make charcoal.
The filmmaker comes across Asad, who like the others, has lost his house because the village was flooded when the dam was built nearby. Charcoal is now the only means the villagers have of providing for their families. But Asad still hears the silent screams of the trees where the axe is due to fall.
Directed by Mahmud Rahmani, the movie is a poetic film about a loner, memories of a lost environment and a condemnation of the ecological damage brought about by a dam project.
A production of the Khuzestan Department of Art Bureau, the documentary was warmly received at the festival, Rahmani told the Persian service of Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) on Friday.
When the Karun-3 dam in Southwest Iran was put into operation, more than 12,300 acres of forest disappeared under the waves. High up in the Zagros Mountains, the impoverished villagers illegally fell oak trees to make charcoal.
The filmmaker comes across Asad, who like the others, has lost his house because the village was flooded when the dam was built nearby. Charcoal is now the only means the villagers have of providing for their families. But Asad still hears the silent screams of the trees where the axe is due to fall.
