{"id":410,"date":"2025-04-25T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beskopbhutan.com\/festival\/?p=410"},"modified":"2025-05-21T01:50:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T01:50:59","slug":"and-towards-happy-alleys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beskopbhutan.com\/festival\/and-towards-happy-alleys\/","title":{"rendered":"And, Towards Happy Alleys"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Fascinated by Iran\u2019s film culture and the poetic works of the feminist poet Forough Farrokhzad, Indian filmmaker Sreemoyee Singh sets out in search of the protagonists of Iranian cinema. The numerous interviews she conducts over a period of six years with filmmakers Jafar Panahi, Mohammad Shirvani and human rights activist Nasrin Sotudeh, among others, show the precarious situation in which critics of the regime find themselves, including the constant threat of imprisonment and being banned from practising their profession. With a keen eye for unusual situations, she documents the effect of the Islamic Republic\u2019s strict and omnipresent censorship on the daily lives of Iranian women whose uncompromising struggle has put them at the forefront of the protests that are currently rocking the country. And, Towards Happy Alleys is a passionate declaration of love for the cinema and poetry of Iran which also provides a frank view of daily life, and bears witness to a fearless generation raising its voice and implacably demanding its civil liberties.<\/p>\n

Director’s Bio\u00a0<\/h6>\n

\"\"Sreemoyee is a filmmaker and producer from Kolkata, India. She has a PhD degree on \u201cThe Exiled Filmmaker in Post-Revolution Iran\u201d from the department of Film Studies at Jadavpur University. She learned Persian and traveled to Iran to film her debut documentary And, Towards Happy Alleys which launched at the Berlinale International Film Festival (Panorama section) in February 2023 and has screened at prestigious film festivals such CPH:DOX (Denmark) Thessaloniki (Greece) Sheffield (UK) DMZ Docs (South Korea) Antenna Film Festival (Australia) Jio MAMI (India), Docpoint Helsinki (Finland) winning the \u2018best film\u2019 in the International Competition at BAFICI, Argentina. Sreemoyee also won the Best Debut Director award at Mumbai International Film Festival for her film along with the FIPRESCI (International) Critics Jury award. Sreemoyee has also worked as Assistant Professor of Film Studies at St. Joseph\u2019s University, Bangalore and a Guest Lecturer at New York University, Abu Dhabi (NYUAD). She is the recipient of the Golden Globe Foundation Residency for International Filmmakers in Los Angeles\u00a0in February-March 2024.<\/p>\n

Credits\u00a0<\/h6>\n

Director: Sreemoyee Singh<\/p>\n

Producer: Sreemoyee Singh\/ Happy Alley Films<\/p>\n

Screenplay: Sreemoyee Singh<\/p>\n

Cinematography: Sreemoyee Singh<\/p>\n

Editing: Joydip Das, Pradyatan Bera<\/p>\n

Consultant editor: Jabeen Merchant,<\/p>\n

Music: Majdy<\/p>\n

Sound Design: Anirban Borthakur<\/p>\n

Production Sound: Sreemoyee Singh<\/p>\n

Executive Producers: Hussain Currimbhoy, Noopur Sinha, Orly Ravid<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Sreemoyee Singh, India 2023, 75\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-programme","tag-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beskopbhutan.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beskopbhutan.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beskopbhutan.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beskopbhutan.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beskopbhutan.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.beskopbhutan.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":636,"href":"https:\/\/www.beskopbhutan.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions\/636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beskopbhutan.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beskopbhutan.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beskopbhutan.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beskopbhutan.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}