Parajanov is equal to the whole Hollywood directing staff. Iranian director

YEREVAN, JULY 10 ARMENPRESS: In the 9 th International Film Festival competition a well known Iranian film director Ahmad Reza Motamedi’s film entitled “Altsheymer” will also be presented.

At the briefing with the journalists Motamedi has mentioned that he is glad he is at last in Parajanov’s country-Armenia, Armenpres reports.He said, “Such a director is equal to the whole Hollywood directing staff”.

Motamedi has a philosopher’s profession, the motives of which he is trying to introduce in his film in a simpler way.

”I’m interested in man , his transformation, as Kamyu, Kafka, Sartre have presented in the international literature”, the Iranian director noted.”Altsheymer” (people who lost their memories) Iran’s full-length feature film tells a story of a woman who has lost his husband in an accident and twenty years later cannot adjust to her own burnt body,who is unable to believe his loss. While the family remembers the late husband, the woman goes on giving expressions to the newspapers such as :”I am desperately searching “, he said.

Motamedi is trying to discover the woman, her philosophy in his films, because he thinks that the female aren’t discovered yet. “ They haven’t been understood, aren’t understood today in the whole world”, said the director. To Ahmad Reza Motamedi's word the Iranian directors have found the dialogue language with the world. “One should rely on local life, should show traditional pictures choosing the correct characters. It’s necessary to show the issues the humanity is interested in” Motamedi concluded .

Golden Apricot Film Festival will last till Luly 15, it is held by the support of the Ministry of Culture.