Toren Film
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| Directed by | Nawzad Shekhany |
| Music by | Mohamed Oussama |
| Cinematography | Nawzad Shekhany |
| Edited by | Nawzad Shekhany |
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Toren, the grandfather, son and grandchild, a three-generation story about a forgotten and endangered people who went through constant persecution and genocide throughout history. Toren is the escape of the survivors in search of different countries for protection and had to integrate into a new different society. Toren is the search for belonging, complete devotion, and a struggle for survival. Toren is today’s Hamlet “to be or not to be”.
The film received acclaim from many of film selection committees, jury committees and critics, with particular praise given to direction, cinematography and editing.
Toren has received a number of accolades from international film festivals. It won Jean Luc Godard Award at Cult Critic Movie Awards an official member of the film society of Lincoln Center, New York, and Award of Merit at IndieFEST Film Awards in San Diego, and Best Drama and Best Editing at South Film and Arts Academy Festival, and Best foreign Feature and Best Cinematography at Hollywood International Moving Pictures Film Festival (HIMPFF)[1], and Best Director and Best Editing at European Cinematography Awards[2], and Bronze Medal at Global Music Awards[3], and Best Feature Film and Best Director at Cult Critic Movie Awards, and It also won Golden Fox Award 2019 at Calcutta International Cult Film Festival, and other awards.
Plot[edit]
In a desperate attempt to preserve his ancestors’ identity rooted in the Mesopotamian civilization, Toren, the grandfather, fled with his family to Georgia at the time when his people was subjected to genocides. Toren the son, 26-year-old talented painter born in Georgia, faced an unfair confrontation between past and present and with a different society oblivious to his family's customs and traditions. Toren suffered a lot that he rebelled against his own identity, especially when his parents past away while he was still a child. He was thus brought up by his grandparents and older brother, Meraz. His success in painting did not free him from his internal struggle and his fatal illness, which created a conflict between life and death. He suffered from severe psychological isolation, which he could not escape until he met Christian Dr. Eka, 24-year-old, and started to recall his family's advices. Toren’s family decided to return to the land of their forefathers, but fate was on the lookout for a new wave of genocide.
Cast[edit]
Imeda Arabuli as Toren, the Yazidi talented painter
Qristine Chichinadze as Eka, the Christian doctor
Zurab Tsintskiladze as David, Eka’s father
Levan Kipiani as Zurab, Torn’s manager
Jaso Osmanovi as Meraz, Torn’s brother
Levan Janelidze as Koka, Torn’s best friend
Nata Guliashvili as Teona, Zurab’s girlfriend
Nata Manjavidze as Dr. Nata, Eka’s friend
Release[edit]
In 1 February 2016, it was announced Nawzad Shekhany resumed work in the film’s editing after it has stopped more than a year because of the genocide inflicted on Yazidis by ISIS on 14 August 2014 in Iraq and his preoccupation in a film project The Black Massacre The documentary film about the genocide, also it was announced Nawzad Shekhany had acquired copy rights to the film Toren. An official trailer was released on 24 April 2018.
The film had its world premiere at the 19th season of Calcutta International Cult Film Festival in India on 26 August 2018, where it won Best Film on Religion, Outstanding Achievement (Director), Outstanding Achievement (Feature Film). The film is nominated for the prestigious Golden Fox Awards 2019[4], where it won the Award at the annual live screening gala of CICFF, on 16thJ
anuary, 2019 at Rotary Sadan, in Kolkata. The film also had national premiere at the National Theater in Baghdad, Iraq on 25 December 2018, where Nawzad Shekhany crowned with the Iraqi Cinema (Winged Bull Shield).
References[edit]
- ↑ "April 2018 Winners". A home for your amazing films. Retrieved 2021-07-10.
- ↑ "WINNERS – April 2018 | European Cinematography AWARDS". Retrieved 2021-07-10.
- ↑ "Winners-Sept-2018". www.globalmusicawards.com. Retrieved 2021-07-10.
- ↑ "2019 GOLDEN FOX WINNERS – CICFF". Retrieved 2021-05-05.
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