CafeCinema 15: Turtles can Fly: Bahman Ghobadi
Sun 29 Nov 2009, 18:00, by Bardia Saadi-nejad, Morad Sadeghi, Gilda Bofa, at Visual Arts:1395 Rene Levesque West, Montreal (Map)
Following the monthly video screening of "CaféCinema", "Iranian Cinema Through the Ages", the 12th monthly session will present "Turtles can Fly" (2004) a multi-award-winning well-known film from Bahman Ghobadi, the director of reputedly prominent films such as "A Time for Drunken Horses (2000), and "Nobody Knows About the Persian Cats" (2009), which won "Special Jury Prize - Un Certain Regard" at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. you may like to watch some excerpts from the movie at Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM4WHowIeMA&feature=player_embedded http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgrrR_f9JC8&feature=player_embedded Bahman Ghobadi's Filmography as a director: 1) "Kasi az gorbehaye irani khabar nadareh" (2009) ... aka Nobody Knows About the... more >>
CafeLitt 148: Multiculturalism
Thu 26 Nov 2009, 19:00, by Mohammad Larijani, at Bistro Burritoville:3rd floor, 2055 Rue Bishop, Montreal,QC (Map)
In this session we will talk about Multiculturalism and minority rights in Canada as well as question of personal identity as an Iranian in Canadian and Quebec society then we will deal with issue of integration in the new society.... more >>
CafeLitt 147: Memory
Thu 19 Nov 2009, 19:00, by Dr. Shahin Zanganehpour, at Bistro Burritoville:3rd floor, 2055 Rue Bishop, Montreal,QC (Map)
Everything is life is memory, save the thin edge of the present. (Michael Gazzaniga, 2000) Modern science defines memory as the processes involved in retaining, retrieving, and using information about stimuli, events, ideas, and skills after the original information is no longer present. It is not therefore not farfetched to think of the memory system as a mental "time machine"! According to modern psychological theory, memory is a cognitive capacity that is used to guide an organisms behaviour towards various elements in its biological and mental life. Therefore, the impact of memory is felt in every domain of experience. At... more >>
CafeLitt 146: Persian Music, Social movements and new genres
Thu 12 Nov 2009, 19:00, by Saeed Kamjoo, at Bistro Burritoville:3rd floor, 2055 Rue Bishop, Montreal,QC (Map)
Saeed Kamjoo's talk will be about three related subjects concerning the music of Iran: a brief history of music and the social movements following the 1906 Constitutional Revolution, the new genre of fusion music in Iran, and the recent musical-social movement and its relation to fusion music.... more >>
CafeLitt 145: Shakespeare and his masterpiece; Hamlet
Thu 5 Nov 2009, 19:00, by Dr. Shahdad Heydari, at Bistro Burritoville:3rd floor, 2055 Rue Bishop, Montreal,QC (Map)
No writer has made such an impact on our world as William Shakespeare. Still as popular and as relevant today as when his plays were first performed over 400 years ago, he remains the dramatist by which all others are judged.The aim of this presentation is to provide a vivid portrait of Shakespeare's world with a look at his life and work particularly Hamlet. It will take you through the major soliloquies, scenes, characters, and action of the play, to explore the enigma at the heart of the drama, which is central to its universal appeal, transcending language... more >>
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