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‘Materna’ Director on Premiering a Film During the Coronavirus Pandemic (Guest Column)
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variety.comBy David Gutnik Guest Columnist On the night my first feature film, “Materna,” was set to world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on opening night of the program, I found myself instead watching Abbas Kiarostami’s film, “The Wind Will Carry Us,” at home. “The Wind Will Carry Us” follows Behzad, a filmmaker traveling to a remote Kurdish village to document the death of a 100-year-old woman.
The trouble is, she won’t die. Instead, Behzad spends much of the movie searching for cellphone reception, in a panic about the fate of his project.
The experience forces him to slow down and learn to adjust to his new normal — the slower rhythms and traditions of the village.
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