Saturday, June 20, 2015

The Persian Dinner (2015) A film by M. Amin Wahidi



Deedenow Cinema Production ® Afghanistan,
Remspot Italia & Hazara People International Network
In collaboration with
Ri-make-Milano

The Persian Dinner (2015)
A film by M. Amin Wahidi

Introduction
The Persian Dinner is the debut feature film by the Hazara director from Afghanistan, M. Amin Wahidi who is a political refugee in Italy. It is an independent low-budget film.
This social drama feature film is located in Milan of Italy, the city in which the World Expo 2015 takes place with the hope of economical reinforcement and job opportunities for this city but the event has so far been blended with scandals of corruption and luck of punctuality on completion of the projects.

The story of The Persian Dinner which takes place in one of social centers of Milan, not only pictures the cultural clashes and differences between the native Italians and the newly becoming Italians, but it also points out the Expo 2015 and the scandals behind it; financial corruption on one side and a huge number of unemployment during this grand occasion on the other side.
The Persian Dinner is a film about social classes, integration, racism, friendship, Expo, corruption, love, hate and more than all, the clashes between the old and the new generation of Italian society, nowadays.

Productions
Deedenow Cinema Production ® Afghanistan (www.aminwahidi.blogspot.com)
Remspot Italia (www.remspot.com) 
Hazara People International Network (www.hazara.it)
Ri-make- Milano (www.rimake.noblogs.org)

Media Partners:


THE PERSIAN DINNER Backstage Photo Gallery













 

For more information about the film and the director;

Official Facebook page of the film:



L’Ospite /The Guest Wins Carpine D’Argento Award 2015




L’Ospite /The Guest Wins Carpine D’Argento Award 2015

The short film L’OSPITE / THE GUEST directed by Hazara director Amin Wahidi and produced by Hazara poet, journalist and human rights activist, BasirAhang, won the Absolute Best Short Film Award and Popular Jury Award 2015 of Carpine D’Argento during Cortifestival International Short FilmFestival of Visciano- Naples Italy.



Premio Carpine D’Argento Award 2015

Premio Carpine D’Argento is an annual award given during Cortifestival/International Short Film Festival of Visciano by social and cultural associations and municipality of Visciano in Naples of Italy.

The aim of the award CARPINE D’ARGENTO is to promote through the art of cinema, the social participation of the citizens in humanitarian activities in this town and in the national level. The other important aim of the award is to bring into attention of the citizens the important social issues of the year.

The main theme of this year of the Cortifestival/International Short Film Festival of Visciano was the critical social problems such as immigration, integration and especially acceptance of asylum seekers and their situation in Italy.


The Cortifestival/International Short Film Festival of Visciano is organized by a professional panel of jury that include cinema critics, professors and social and cultural activists.

This young festival is considered an important event for social activists and a strong platform for young filmmakers.



This year, beside filmmakers, a senior official of the Italian navy, Admiral Felicio Angrisano, the commander in chief of Corps of the Port Captaincies – Coast Guard was awarded for rescuing the lives of thousands of asylum seeker in the Mediterranean Sea.



About the film

L’Ospite / The Guest that is located in Venice, pictures one night of an asylum seeker in Venice Italy and points out the weakness of immigration system in Italy. Italy for long has been under critics by the European Community and International Human Right Organizations for violations of refugees rights. The refugees and asylum seekers are vulnerable in Italy because of lack of an organic native law to guarantee the asylum seekers and refugees’ rights and protect them based on international conventions.

With this short film, with a simple language the director, Amin Wahidi has pictured the sociology of “the fear from the other” because of ignorance and lack of dialogue, and lack of exchange of information between the host groups “natives” and the guests “refugees”. 

This short film had already won three awards of VENICE CITY AWARDS during a special program of the 71st Venice Film Festival in 2014.  

The coming feature film by Amin Wahidi is THE PERSIAN DINNER that will be screened in September this year. 

Photo Gallery Premio Carpine D'Argento Awards 2015 Visciano-Naples 















Thursday, April 30, 2015

Photo Gallery: L'OSPITE at Imperia Video Festival

Photo Gallery: L'OSPITE at Imperia Video Festival 












Our Interview with the Italian Newspaper, LA STAMPA during the festival. Basir Ahang and I talked with the media about L'OSPITE that is dedicated to the refugees and victims of drownings in Mediterranean Sea,  about the situation of refugees in Italy and about Hazaras' on going massacres in Afghanistan and Pakistan. 

Monday, November 24, 2014

LA CENA PERSIANA il nuovo film di Amin Wahidi in produzione




Basta pochissimo per spezzare per sempre un legame di amicizia e di fiducia: una parola di troppo o una tenuta nascosta per troppo tempo, bastano a farti rimanere solo in men che non si dica.  E' ciò che Andrea, giovane cuoco e aspirante attore, impara durante una cena che potrebbe aprirgli la strada verso il futuro sognato da sempre. Ad un tavolo si siedono molti individui di provenienza e vissuti differenti per discutere i termini di un film da girare a breve. Tutti, gli attori, gli sceneggiatori, il regista, i produttori, le fidanzate stesse hanno degli interessi in gioco in questa cena, che diventa l'occasione d'oro di ognuno per vedere trionfare i propri interessi su quelli altrui. E' una gara in cui ognuno corre da solo convinto di poter arrivare primo al traguardo.  Andrea, dopo aver organizzato una cena tra amici, si troverà a farla fallire del tutto, ferendo coloro che non hanno tradito le sue aspettative o la sua fiducia. 

La Cena uscira' nel 2015