NOOR is an unrivaled film on Transgender, identity and inner quest, offering sumptuous images, a discourse of high intelligence and whose hero’s beauty and story are astonishing, radiant. Like no other.
NOOR is the Grand Prix Winner of the 2014 Paris Chéries Chéris Festival
DCP/HP – France/Turkey – 2014 – 79 min – color – drama
Distribution: Zootrope Films
Production: C’est au 4 (Cristine Asperti) / Explore Pakistan
International Sales: Wide (Loïc Magneron)
Assistant director: Danyal Rasheed
Executive Producer: Karim Meharban
Photography: Jacques Ballard
Sound: Alexandre Andrillon
With
Noor
Uzma Ali
Baba Muhammad
Gunga Saeen
Mithu Saeen
Music by Abaji
NOOR French release on April, 23
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« splendor of frames and lights, captivating documentary integration,
magnificent presence of the main actor »
Sandrine Marques – Le Monde
« images of an exceptional beauty, a rare visual force emanating from
faces, landscapes, interiors, the characters’ gestures as well as from lights »
Jean-Michel Frodon – Slate.fr
« both realistic and dreamlike, the film’s simplicity is deeply moving, it clings
to love like a light reflection on the ideal lake’s clear water »
Laurent Salgues et Oriol Canals – lacid.org
« the film offers a view into the Pakistani society that touches unexplored
themes and is filled with contemplative widescreen images of the country »
nisimasa.com
