More Screenings for Movie ‘Muhammad (PBUH)’ at Montreal Film Festival
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Organizers of Canada’s Montreal World Film Festival (MWFF) have considered two more screenings for Majid Majidi’s latest film “Muhammad (PBUH), the Messenger of God” due to strong demand for the movie.
According to Tasnim dispatches and based on the data acquired from Montreal Festival, the audience received the Iranian biopic so well that the organizers have added two more screening sessions.
Quartier Latin cinema has dedicated a new session to Majidi’s acclaimed film, which premiered internationally in the Canadian festival on August 27 as the opening film.
Earlier on Saturday, Majidi had referred to the great reception of his film in Canada, saying that the tickets for the opening screening had been sold out in the early days.
The film will likely be screened in Montreal’s McGill University due to high demands by Iranian fans, Majidi had noted, saying that a large population of Muslims have come to Montreal from all over Canada to watch the film in this festival.
The MWFF, which started on August 27 and will last until September 7, is the only competitive Film Festival in North America recognized by the FIAPF (International Federation of Film Producers Associations).
Muhammad (PBUH), the Messenger of God, which is the first part of Iran’s big-budget trilogy on the life of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), also premiered in cinemas across Iran on August 26, and attracted a large number of audiences.
A number of internationally-acclaimed professionals, including Academy Award winning visual effects supervisor and filmmaker Scott E. Anderson, three-time Oscar-winning Italian director of photography Vittorio Storaro and renowned Croat production designer Milijen Kreka Kljakovic collaborated in making the film.
Academy Award-winning Indian music composer Allah-Rakha Rahman has written music for the movie.
According to the MWFF’s website, the film does not depict Muhammad [PBUH] himself but his world, the pagan age with all its tyranny and oppression as seen through the eyes of young Muhammad [PBUH] from birth to the age of 13.
Majid Majidi is an internationally and critically acclaimed Iranian film director, film producer, and screen writer whose films have touched on many themes and genres and has won many international awards.
His acclaimed film, Children of Heaven (1997), was the first Iranian film nominated for an Academy Award (Best Foreign Language Film) in 1999.
Majidi's 1999 film 'The Color of Paradise' was chosen one of the best 10 films of the year in the US in 2000.
