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The Carpet of Wood
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Wikipedia article
'The Wooden Carpet' or 'Farseh Chob' is a 2008 Iran documentary film by Iranian Kurd director Abdolrahman Mirani, and co-produced by Honasra Qanun Institute.
Synopsis
We are in a village in the Kermanshah region, on the border between Iran and Iraq. This territory, at the foot of Mounts Zagros at about 1,400 metres altitude, is very poor and isolated. A flood has destroyed the only bridge so communications with the village are cut. This event mobilised the whole community, which started to work tirelessly in order to reconstruct the bridge. The documentary film narrates, step by step, every small effort made by all the inhabitants of the village, whether they are men, women, elderly people or children. The final result is, in its naturalness and spontaneity, really amazing: a long bridge made from trunks and branches finely intertwined, as if it were a decorated carpet suspended between the two banks.
Awards
* Won Franois Ode Award (International Short Film Festival in Hamburg), 2009
* Won Bansko Town prize (Bansko Mountain Film Festival Awards), 2008[http://www.bansko.info/index.php/news-from-bansko/78-bansko-mountain-film-festival-awards-announced Bansko Mountain Film Festival Awards Announced] bansko.info - news, features, events, hotels and apartments in Bansko, Bulgaria.
* Won - Paras International Documentary Short (Leeds International Film Festival), 2009
* International Film Festival in Ankara in 2008
* International Film Festival in Leeds (England), 2009
* International Short Film Festival in Tehran in 2009
* International Mountain Film Festival in Trento, 2009
* International Film Festival in Uppsala (Sweden), 2009
* Festival Black International Cinema in Berlin in 2009
References
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