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"13 and a Half" at Vancouver International Film Festival October 1 and 3, 2006
Unprecedented, daring and set in Tehran, co-directors Abbas Ahmadi and Nader Davoodi's film provides a rare glimpse beneath the chador, as they document the all-female stage play 13, courageously directed and entirely cast with women.

Film Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxkQWcuxRok

Sun, Oct 1 6:00 pm Empire Granville 7 Theatre 5 $9.50

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(plays with Flesh)
Sizdah-o Neem

Canada, Iran, 2005, 60 min, Color, DV Cam (PAL)
In Farsi with English subtitles
World Premiere

Directed By: Abbas Ahmadi,
Nader Davoodi
EXEC PROD: Souryeh Kabiri
CAMS: Abbas Ahmadi, Nader Davoodi
ED: Abbas Ahmadi

Unprecedented, daring and set in Tehran, co-directors Abbas Ahmadi and Nader Davoodi's film provides a rare glimpse beneath the chador, as they document the all-female stage play 13, courageously directed and entirely cast with women. The play is a hyperbolic enactment of a King’s harem where his many wives and mother vie lavishly for his attention. When confronted by a beautiful French foreigner and unable to beat her, they comply with imitations of her. Playfully exposing aspects of Iranian women’s roles in history, and commenting on present-day realities, this documentary is unabashed in its ability to challenge. Breathtakingly honest interviews with the cast and director Banafsheh Tavanaee shine a hopeful light on Iranian women and the conflict between traditionalism and modernism heightened by the Islamic Revolution.