A film about Jesus that script the script based on the Islamic perspective recently released in Iran. The film will cause a reaction from the Christian community, because Jesus told not die on the cross, but was replaced by Judas Iscariot. The film is titled "The Messiah, The Spirit of God", written, produced and directed by the producer from Iran, Nader Talebzadeh. The film was made in Iran and Jesus was played by an actor in Iran. This film is based on the teachings of Al Quran about Jesus and based on the contents of the Gospel of Barnabas, a book which is not included in the canon of Scripture. Making the film was funded by an Iranian state-owned TV channel.
Dr. Emir Caner, a dean of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary recommend to Christians watching this film, because in it reveal a lot of new things, like when Jesus was being replaced, why the mother and the disciples did not recognize that the person they were following was exchanged before being on the cross, and what is the purpose of God 'blinding the crowd included all the disciples of Jesus and Mary the mother of Jesus, so they still think that Jesus was being crucified. (Watch trailer & The Muslim Jesus)
Caner, who is also a professor of history, said he believes that ultimately this way, we watch as he asked on that point of view, we can accept this film.
"Maybe the Muslims and Christians will realize through this film that the Koran only offers a possible story that might occur at the time, even though the Bible was clearly written a detailed history of reliable and has proved even to this day." Similarly Caner write a statement.
Almost as a whole "The Messiah," the appearance of Jesus in the film version of Jesus is similar to that made by the western world. Blonde hair and perform miracles. Only thing different is how Judas arrived - arrived miraculously changed resemble Jesus and replace Jesus was crucified.
"He (Jesus) is not the Son of God and never be the Son of God. He only prophet and he was never crucified, it is another person who was crucified to replace him," Talebzadeh told CNN.
One motive of making this film, according to Talebzadeh, is in response to films about Jesus that made the Western producers, like the movie "The Passion of the Christ" starring actor Mel Gibson in 2004. According to him, this film presents the story wrong about Jesus from the teachings of Islam.
Phenomenal movie that involves almost more than 1000 people this is the greatest movie ever made in Iran. The film will also be aired in 20 episodes on TV channels owned by the government of Iran [syarif / eng / www.suara-islam.com]
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Iranian film version of Jesus: Jesus was never crucified
Sep 12, 2007
'Iraq in Fragments': In the chaos (2007)
There is much to admire about Iraq in Fragments, director James Longley's Academy Award-nominated portrait of life on the ground in three parts of Iraq during the first year of American occupation.
Most striking is how it manages to be both immediate and reflective at the same time. Because Longley uses a technique that forgoes interviews and voiceover commentary in favour of observation and revealing juxtapositions, his movie puts you both in the chaos and just above it. As a result, it is easily the most thoughtful example of a veritable growth industry in non-fiction filmmaking: the Iraq doc.
Longley took his camera to three parts of Iraq in 2003-04 to record the impact of the U.S. invasion and Saddam's rout. While the situations he finds in these places have for the most part already been swept away by the country's state of constant turbulence, the snapshots they provide are still pertinent in terms of understanding the war's almost instant descent to the status of quagmire.
In Baghdad, Longley finds an 11-year-old Sunni boy named Mohammed. The son of a policeman who disappeared without a trace into Saddam's prisons, Mohammed works at a garage for an embittered veteran of the war against Iran and struggles mightily to learn reading and writing at school.
Beneath skies regularly intersected by U.S. choppers and aircraft, Mohammed lives in a world framed by uncertainty and hopelessness. Abused by his boss for his failures at school and estranged from his classmates because he's the oldest student in his grade, the boy seems doomed to fail everyone's expectations. Needless to say, these intimations of Mohammed's gloomy prospects are only made more poignant by the fact that the city he lives in has become that much more dangerous in the four years since the Mohammed segment of the movie was shot.
In two Shiite cities, Longley finds fundamentalist followers of the cleric Muqtada al-Sadr preparing for elections. Their zeal for justice sharpened on the hard edges of retribution and resentment, the Sadr followers are determined to enforce Islamic law at any cost, even if it means terrorizing alleged alcohol-peddlers at gunpoint.
As it was with Mohammed in Baghdad, the situation is most fascinating for what it portends: the imminent rise of factionalist violence among fundamentalist groups and the inevitable toll about to be taken by the unleashing of mutually unyielding ideologies.
Finally, in the Kurdish regions in the north, something approaching calm prevails, as Longley comes across a farming family for whom the American presence has actually delivered what the world was told it was supposed to: freedom from tyranny, persecution and the long-dreamed-of possibility of an independent state. But it's a qualified sense of hope. We already know what's raging in the south and we're fully aware that what we're watching already belongs to the past.
The war, nearly four years later, continues without end in sight.
Easily the most challenging, ambitious and technically innovative of all the films nominated in this year's Best Documentary category of the Academy Awards, Iraq in Fragments is also the hardest sell to a mass market. That's why it's all the more remarkable that it's even being considered, surely a sign of unsettled times.
::link source: http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/184853
::http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0492466/
Turtles Can Fly (2004)
Turtles Can Fly (Kurdish: Kûsiyan jî dikarin bifirin [1], Persian: لاک پشت ها هم پرواز می کنند) is a 2004 film written and directed by the kurdish Iranian filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi. It was the first film to be made in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
The film is set in a Kurdish refugee camp on the Iraqi-Turkish border on the eve of the US invasion of Iraq. Thirteen-year-old Kak (played by Soran Ebrahim) is known as "Satellite" for his installation of dishes and antennae for local villages looking for news of Saddam Hussein. He is the dynamic but also cowardly, bullying and manipulative leader of the children, organizing the dangerous but necessary sweeping and clearing of the minefields.
He then arranges trade-ins for the unexploded mines. The industrious Satellite falls for an unlikely orphan named Agrin (Avaz Latif), a sad-faced girl traveling with her disabled but smart brother Henkov, who appears to have the gift of clairvoyance. The siblings are care-taking a three-year-old, whose connection to the pair is discovered as harsh truths are revealed.
The question is, what happened to these children? There are so many, will the occupation make their lives better or worse? How could it get worse?
Awards
1. Glass Bear, Best Feature Film and Peace Film Award, Berlin International Film Festival, 2005.
2. Golden Seashell, Best Film, San Sebastián International Film Festival, 2004.
3. Special Jury Award, Chicago International Film Festival, 2004.
4. International Jury and Audience Awards, São Paulo International Film Festival, 2004.
5. La Pieza Award, Best Film, Mexico City International Contemporary Film Festival, 2005.
6. Audience Award, Rotterdam International Film Festival, 2005.
7. Golden Prometheus, Best Film, Tbilisi International Film Festival, 2005.
8. Aurora Award, Tromsø International Film Festival, 2005.
9. Golden Butterfly, Isfahan International Festival of Films for Children, 2004.
10. Gold Dolphin, Festróia - Tróia International Film Festival, 2005
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