{"id":20131,"date":"2021-04-19T09:40:03","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T05:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/?p=20131"},"modified":"2021-04-19T09:40:03","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T05:10:03","slug":"american-festival-picks-iranian-shorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/20131\/american-festival-picks-iranian-shorts\/","title":{"rendered":"American festival picks Iranian shorts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"summary\">TEHRAN-Iranian shorts \u201cAva\u2019s Silence\u201d and \u201cRecreation\u201d will compete at the 54th edition of the Humboldt International Film Festival, which will open today in the U.S. county.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Gholamreza Nematpur, \u201cAva\u2019s Silence\u201d is about a young girl Ava, who has to work in her father\u2019s auto shop as a mechanic because of her father\u2019s illness. She is looking forward to her brother returning from military service in a border area so she can get married to her fianc\u00e9 Abbas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecreation\u201d by Navid Nikkhah-Azad tells the story of Sahar, a rebel who decides to run away from school, disguise herself and go to a football game.<\/p>\n<p>The movies will be competing with \u201cGod\u2019s Daughter Dances\u201d by Sungbin Byun from South Korea, Hands Up\u201d by Angela White, \u00a0\u201cDandelion\u201d by Jae Staten and \u201cAlina\u201d by Rami Kodeih, all from the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The Humboldt International Film Festival is the oldest student-run film festival in the world. It has been bringing independent and alternative short films together for several years.<\/p>\n<p>The festival will be running until April 25.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: A scene from \u201cAva\u2019s Silence\u201d by Gholamreza Nematpur.<\/p>\n<p>ABU\/MG<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN-Iranian shorts \u201cAva\u2019s Silence\u201d and \u201cRecreation\u201d will compete at the 54th edition of the Humboldt International Film Festival, which will open today in the U.S. county. Directed by Gholamreza Nematpur, \u201cAva\u2019s Silence\u201d is about a young girl Ava, who has to work in her father\u2019s auto shop as a mechanic because of her father\u2019s illness. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[7131,7100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-en","category-international-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}