#Behtash Sanaeeha

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My Favourite Cake (2024)

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Seen in 2024:

Ballad of a White Cow (Behtash Sanaeeha & Maryam Moqadam), 2020

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My Favourite Cake.

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new-to-me #512 - My Favourite Cake

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Listed: IMustBe Leonardo

IMustBe Leonardo is a Berlin-based songwriter who has been making his oddball songs since around 2016. His latest album, Not To Be Scared of Weekend, is a self-recorded delight, entirely unfettered by commercial considerations — with one song that asks the eternal question, “Why should...you need god…when you have Kim Gordon?” Writing about it, Jennifer Kelly said, “About half the tracks are hand-made rock songs, bolstered by clicky drum tracks and ravaged guitar tones. The other half are the maddest, most surreal campfire songs you ever heard, gently strummed but extremely odd.” Leonardo wrote us one of the nicest — and longest — thank you notes we’ve ever received at Dusted, so of course we asked him for a Listed.

Nina Simone — An Artist's Duty

What she says in these 51 seconds, the way she asks that question at the end — everything is there.

Typhoon — Sympathetic Magic

This album was released in January 2021. Kyle Morton is a poet and a great songwriter. His notes to the album tell all you need to know: “The songs are about people — the space between them and the ordinary, miraculous things that happen there, as we come into contact, imitate each other, leave our marks, lose touch. Being self and other somehow amounting to the same thing.” He played a solo gig in Berlin, on June 17, 2023. I asked him to play my favorite song, “And So What If You Were Right.” He did it. He said it was the first time he played it in public. That was a gift.

Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha — Ballad Of A White Cow

There is almost only love in this movie, and all that love leads only to suffering. It terrifies me to see how often “doing the right thing” and well-intended lies destroy good people’s lives.

Emma Ruth Rundle — Engine of Hell

This album is a pulsing heart in the shape of a songwriter sitting in front of us, playing piano or classical guitar, and singing her story. “I wanted to be close to the listener and be whispering to you. I wanted to be close on an emotional level. Because I wanted to connect with myself on an emotional level, ” she said about this record. It takes courage to do this. It also takes a little bit of courage to stay in front of her and look at her fragile, invincible grace. Sonny Diperri, who recorded and produced this terrific record, is a great sound engineer and a lucky guy.

Christian Petzold — Undine

Art is proof that people can find infinite ways to create beauty, as long as they believe they truly need to love. Undine is a work of art. It not only is a truly original, touching movie about love. It is an act of love, made by people who can’t stand living in a society willing to humiliate and lose it.

Vic Chesnutt — At The Cut

Maybe one day our species will ignore what anguish is, and we will not even be allowed to mention the word. Someone will consider this “progress.” I don't see any progress in not feeling moved by what Vic Chesnutt — and every person involved in those sessions — did in this album.

Aki Kaurismaki — Ariel

I love Kaurismaki's cinema. I’m mentioning Ariel here just because it is probably my favorite... today. (For the record, it contains the best bank robbery scene in the film history.) If I ask myself why I love his movies so much, one reason I can put into words is that all his characters are condemned to the tragic and funny punishment of knowing what truly makes human beings happy. They are such stuff as the Tramp is made on.

This Mortal Coil — Blood

I put this album in my CD player recently, after several years, and started listening to it with the state of mind of someone who’s going to meet an ex-lover and is scared of not feeling anything. I was wrong. It still asks me the same beautiful question: “Did you really think you knew which kind of songs you like?”

Hirokazu Kore-eda — Shoplifters

I see Kore-eda as a sort of photo reporter who goes around and, almost by mistake, takes poetic pictures of fragments of happiness that — tomorrow — will not be there anymore. Laws were supposed to be instruments by which people pursued well-being. This movie shows how society rules are sometimes not ready to handle real life. They can end up killing what they should preserve, and it looks like a frighteningly stupid scenario.

New Pollution — Kiss The System

New Pollution is not just a band — it’s a no-filter attitude. They're the most contemporary group I know. I cannot imagine someone attending a New Pollution gig and not getting captured. There is spontaneity and freedom in everything they do — on stage and online. They keep releasing whatever they record (concerts, demos, soundtracks, studio sessions) and mocking all the show business rules. Nowadays musicians — indie ones more than others — are like bank clerks, each one with their daily plans: x hours of social media, x hours emails to labels, x hours emails to magazines... Music seems to be the last thing you should care about — and you're supposed to be a musician! New Pollution they don't care. “Revolution was your spare time,” they sing. I think Patrick Jessop has an instinctive awareness of how ephemeral existence is and I hope he never loses it.

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BALLAD OF A WHITE COW:

Mother seeks justice

Husband wrongly convicted

She’ll face Iran gov

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Berlinale 2024: Schmerzhafte Zeiten

Nach fünf Jahren ist die 74. Berlinale auch die letzte von Mariëtte Rissenbeek und Carlo Chatrian. Einst trat das Duo mit dem Auftrag an, das von Dieter Kosslik heillos überfrachtete Festival künstlerisch und organisatorisch zu reformieren. Am Ende waren es vor allem die Sparmaßnahmen, die zur Verschlankung des Programms geführt haben, dem auch nach fünf Jahren eine klare Handschrift…

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“O Perdão” em exibição no atmosfera m Lisboa #ÚltimasNotícias #lisboa

Hot News Não perca a exibição do filme iraniano “O Perdão” (Ballad of a White Cow) dos realizadores Behtash Sanaeeha e Maryam Moghaddam (Irão, França, 2020), com Maryam Moghaddam, Alireza Sani Far e Pouria Rahimi Sam. Um retrato poderoso de uma mulher na sociedade iraniana atual e que foi selecionado para a Berlinale (Festival Internacional de Cinema de Berlim), Tribeca Film Festival e Stockholm…

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My Favourite Cake de Behtash Sanaeeha ,Maryam Moghaddam

Un film de Behtash Sanaeeha ,Maryam Moghaddam

Retrouvez l'article complet ici https://lemagcinema.fr/microcritique/my-favourite-cake-de-behtash-sanaeeha-maryam-moghaddam/

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Berlinale Film Festival shocked as Iranian filmmakers face travel restrictions

The Berlinale Film Festival issued a statement after learning that Iranian writers/directors Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha have been banned from travelling, have had their passports confiscated, and face a court trial concerning their work as artists and filmmakers. “The Berlinale is a festival fundamentally committed to freedom of speech, freedom of expression and freedom of the arts,…

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Ballad of a White Cow

directed by Behtash Sanaeeha and Maryam Moghadam, 2020

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Ballad of a White Cow (Behtash Sanaeeha, Maryam Moqadam, 2020)

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Ghasideyeh Gave Sefid (Ballad of a White Cow) dir. Behtash Sanaeeha and Maryam Moghadam, 2021.

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Ballad of a White Cow

Recensie Ballad of a White Cow ★★1/2 - vanaf 1-11 te zien op @LeidenIFF en @PAFF en vanaf 4-11 in de bioscoop Het einde zorgt voor de aangename verrassing. Gelukkig maar, want deze film is, los van het fraaie camerawerk, traag en saaiig.

De dramafilm Ballad of a White Cow gaat over Mina, wiens man onterecht is geëxecuteerd. Ze gaat de strijd aan, met behulp van een oude vriend van haar man. Of is het toch iemand anders? Wat wij van Ballad of a White Cow vinden, lees je in onze recensie. (more…)