WITHIN THE MISTS officially selected at The 10th International Exile Film Festival Gothenburg Sweden

Film Title: “Within the mists”

Written and Directed by: Mohammad Amin Wahidi

Location: Milan-Italy

Duration: 30 Minutes

Production(s):

Deedenow Cinema Production Afghanistan

Remspot Italy

Year: 2011

Language: Italian

Subtitles: English

Synopsis

Mr. X is a single man, poet, painter and writer. He is a refugee in a big city which he thinks has swollen his identity.

His poems are refused by publishers and he doesn’t find a love.

Every night he has nightmare and thinks he has lost himself in this big city.

He goes to a doctor because his friends have counseled him, and in the first look, he falls in love with the doctress, seeing her beautiful eyes.

One day he finds falling red apples from the basket of an old lady on the street, he follows her to give her back the apples, but she disappears.

Since then, with those red apples he falls in love with a girl every night he dreams.

Finally one day, he meets two people in a bar: the lady of the read apples and a beautiful barkeeper that is mistaken to his doctress, but they say none of them knows him. He leaves the bar angrily and outside the bar he meets the girl of his dreams with another man but she doesn’t know him either.

It is the day he decides to leave this city and its entire crazy people.

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Film Title: “Within the mists”

Written and Directed by: Mohammad Amin Wahidi

Location: Milan-Italy

Duration: 29 Minutes

Production(s):

Deedenow Cinema Production Afghanistan

Remspot Italy

Year: 2011

Language: Italian

Subtitles: English

Plot

A refugee writer/poet is trying to make relation with the city he has moved into but he fails. A man alone, he is a citizen of nowhere thus he tries to find a link between his present and past. He suffers solitude and tries to find a meaning for his life, could it be love, love of a human being. At the end he leaves the city and its crazy people, but could this be a concrete solution for him? In three words this film is about: nostalgia, solitude and homelessness.

Within the mists?!

“Within the mists” is the title of an independent short film in post production by Deedenow Cinema Afghanistan and Rem-spot Italy.

The story is about an artist being lost within the mists of the city he lives in. He is being lost in his illusions and the existing realities around him and tries to come out of this situation.

Smail Djennadi has played the role of Mr. X in this short film.

The bad whether this year lengthened the project until mid January while it had began late November.

It has been now three years of my residence in Italy, and so far what only I could do was writing screenplays for short films hoping to be realized one day on the land I am trying to find me once again out of the mists that surrounds me. Out of several screenplays I have written so far to be self produced, this short is the first one as the beginning of moving on track once again.

It has been a nice experience though, especially getting to know many good people and making many good friends and collaborators that could result collaborations in the future projects.

Here I ought to thank the crew members; Marco Masante, Laura Manconi, Paola Denisio, Emma De Nicola, Smail Djennadi Reza Karimi, Mattia Giubilei and the friends of ChiamaMilano who helped us during the casting.

A short film by a young Hazara filmmaker from Afghanistan

Mohmmad Reza Sahibdaad

Lately the Iranian Regime has stopped more than one thousand and five hundred Afghan fuel trucks in their borders when they were transiting to Afghanistan.

This has caused the rapid rise in the cost of fuel in this cold winter in Afghanistan while millions of people are dying of hunger and coldness.

The Iranian Regime would not suffice only to training and supplying the Taliban with weapons for destruction of Afghanistan, but also they kill the Afghan refugees who are in the search of sanctuaries in Iran. The IRI Regime would also torture even the children of those refugees who sought for sanctuaries in Iran.

Here is a short film by a keen-eyed young Afghan (Hazara) filmmaker on how life passes for the children of Afghan refugees in Iran, the generation that has a gloom future in front of them in Iran.

The director is Mohammad Reza Sahibdaad who is now residing in France.

Deedenow Cinema will post M. Reza Sahibdaad’s other works in the future.

The Sweet Melody of Politics

It is worth to vote for a documentary done by a new talent female Hazara Filmmaker who tries to give a different identity for her gender.

Mona Haidari, a 21 year old, Hazara filmmaker who participated in Atelier Varan documentary workshops in Kabul has made this documentary.

The documentary is about a young woman, who first became a quite famous singer through a music competition show on TV who then runs for politics, in the land of contrasts, where the women are imprisoned in the cages of ignorance by men.

On this land, when a girl is born in a family it is considered mistreatment of the nature, and then, when a girl becomes an artist, she is considered to be against the culture.

To break this taboo against the women, it is helpful to encourage the young female filmmakers who try to depict the lives of those women taking parts in struggles for their rights and bringing changes to the lives of other women.

Voting this documentary would be an encouragement to the filmmaker to reflect more and more women’s voices in her future works.

The Sweet Melody of Politics from Women's Voices Now on Vimeo.

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Our Condolences to Mohammad Khadem Haidari for his elder brother’s sudden death

Mohammad Khadem Haidari on the set of 'Reame del nulla' 2009 Italy

Lately we heard that famous Afghan filmmaker Mohammad Khadem Haidari is mournful for the sudden death of his elder brother in a car accident in Iran, hence Deedenow Cinema Production Afghanistan submits cordial condolences to Mr. Haidari and his family members.

Losing a dear person is a big sorrow, a never-forgetting burden on one’s heart, thus accepting the fact that death is an irrefutable path that every one has to follow earlier or later, can give a bit of peace and patience to the mournful family.

We hope this sorrow as a sear on his heart, would not affect Mohammad Khadem Haidari’s efforts in his filmmaking activities which has made a remarkable contribution to the Emerging Afghan Cinema of the new era.

Mohammad Khadem Haidari’s profile

Mohammad Khadem Haidari as a diamond under the ash has always tried to keep low profile and do great things off screen –behind the scenes without thinking about fame and positions but only and only cinema and the art of how to reflect a thought or an emotion through images.

Haidari has studied cinema in Baagh e Ferdaus, a cinema faculty in a Teheran University in Iran then has worked as a filmmaker and television producer in Kabul from 2002 -2006 when he has contributed to many successful film projects in Afghanistan.

In addition to making films in this period, he has worked for production of youth programs in RTA Afghanistan National Television in Kabul and Bamyan.

After four fruitful years of filmmaking, he was forced to immigrate to Italy due to security problems he had in 2006 in Afghanistan.

Here in Italy, in addition to documentaries he has made, he has a short and two feature films in his carrier which were all screened in Venice Film Festival 2008, 2009 and 2010.

Mohammad Khadem Haidari’s Filmography

Short films

Shabnam 10’ (2003 Afghanistan)

Maama (2005 Afghanistan)

The Venetian Girl 10’ (2007 Italy)

As Cinematographer

Yalda 70’ (2004 Afghanistan)

Baam e Donya documentary series on Bamyan (2005 Afghanistan)

Drought in Badakhshan (2004- 2005 Afghanistan)

Assistant Director

Spring of Hope 120’ (2006 Afghanistan, India)

Assistant set and costume

Osama 83’ (2003 Afghanistan, Japan, Ireland, the Netherlands, Iran)

Winner of Camera D’oro Cannes 2004, Winner of "Golden Globe Best Foreign Language Film" - Afghanistan

Director of photography and cinematographer

Reame del nulla 45’ (2009 Italy, Afghanistan)

Cry me out 70’ (2010 Italy, Afghanistan)