11 Classics Restored for Fajr Int’l Film Festival
TEHRAN. (IRANART) - The 36th Fajr International Film Festival slated for April 19-27 in Tehran will screen 11 films in its ‘Classics Preserved’ section dedicated to restored old films.
Four films from Iran and seven from other nations are scheduled for this part of the festival, IRNA reported. The upcoming edition of FIFF will screen restored classics from Japan, France, Russia, Australia, Poland, Czechoslovakia and one joint project by Hong Kong and Taiwan.
'A Touch of Zen' is among the foreign films to be screened at Classics Preserved. Written, directed and co-edited by Chinese filmmaker King Hu (1932-1997) and produced jointly by Hong Kong and Taiwan, it is a 1971 wuxia film, a Chinese genre concerning the adventures of martial artists in ancient times.