Noor
DCP / HD - 2012 - France / Turkey / Pakistan - 78 min - Color - Drama
Noor
Original title: Noor
A film by Çağla Zencirci & Guillaume Giovanetti
Noor wants to be a man. He doesn’t belong anymore to the Khusras, Pakistan’s transgender community. And he is definitely done with the love story he had with one of them, that had drastically changed his life. Now, he is doing a man’s job in a Truck Decoration Center and he made up his mind: he will find a girl who will accept him as he is...
Original language: Urdu
Produced by: C’est au 4 (Cristine Asperti) – Explore Pakistan
Festivals:
FESTIVAL DE CANNES 2012, ACID Section, 2012
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Czech Republic), 2012
Pusan International Film Festival, Asian Premiere – World Cinema Section (Korea), 2012
Festival "Film Forum Zadar" (Croatia), 2012
Cinematik International Film Festival Piestany (Slovakia), 2012
Bogota Ojo Al Sancocho Festival (Colombia), 2012
Helsinki « Love & Anarchy » International Film Festival (Finland), 2012
Kaunas International Film Festival (Lithuania), 2012
Rencontres Film-Femmes Méditerranée (France), 2012
Polychrome Festival (France), 2012
Dieppe Festival (France), 2012
Rio de Janeiro Festival (Brazil), 2012
Haifa International Film Festival (Israel), 2012
Festival du nouveau Cinéma de Montréal (Canada), 2012
Copenhagen Gay & Lesbien Film Festival (Denmark), 2012
Rome Mediterranean Film Festival (Italy), 2012
Vancouver Asian Film Festival (Canada), 2012
Rome Asian Film Festival (Italy), 2012
Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Greece), 2012
Stockholm International Film Festival, (Sweden), 2012
Arras International Film Festival (France), 2012
Cork Film Festival (Irland), november 2012
Tallinn International Film Festival (Estonia), 2012
"Parramasala" Sidney South Asian Film Festival (Australia), 2012
Goa International Film Festival (India), 2012
Hanoi International Film Festival (Viet Nam), 2012
Bombay "Third Eye" International Film Festival (India), 2012
Marrakech International Film Festival (Marocco), 2012
Pau International Film Festival (France), 2012
Chennai International Film Festival (India), 2012
Bangalore International Film Festival (India), 2012
Pune International Film Festival (India), 2013
Istanbul Film Festival 2013
MISAFF Mosaic International South Asian Film Festival 2014
Divergenti Film Festival, Italy 2014
Mix Milano Film Festival, Italy 2014
Asian American international Film Festival 2014, USA
Melbourne Queer Film Festival 2014
Cologne International Women's Film Festival 2014
Cambridge Film Festival 2014
9th Annual Vancouver International Women in Film Festival
Silk Road Film Festival 2014
Feast Festival Australia 2014
London Asian Film Festival 2014
Awards:
Selected by the ACID Cannes, France 2012
Grand Prize at Dieppe International Film Festival (France) 2012
Best Fiction Film Prize at Bogota Film Festival (Colombia) 2012
Special Jury Mention at Rome Mediterranean Film Festival, 2012
Prize « Emerging Director in Narrative Feature » at Asian American International Film Festival, 2013
Best Feature film prize, Best Director and Contemporary Creation Prize at Silk Road Film Festival, Irlande, 2014*
Audience Award at Toulouse Festival Des Images Aux Mots, France 2014
Best actor prize for Noor at Vancouver Women Film Festival, Canada 2014
'Mention spéciale' at Festival MIX Milano di Cinema Gaylesbico e Queer Culture, Italy 2013
Best Picture & Best Performance awards - MISAFF Mosaic International South Asian Film Festival 2014
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Çağla Zencirci & Guillaume Giovanetti
Çaǧla Zencirci (Ankara, 1976) and Guillaume Giovanetti (Lyon, 1978) direct several short fictions and documentaries in the Middle-East, Central Asia, and Europe, screened and awarded in more than 50 Festivals (Berlinale, Barcelona, Rome, Cork, Brest, Istanbul, etc.) and broadcast on several European TV channels (France’s Planète, Spain’s TVE, Eurochannel, etc.). Their following film, the middle-length fiction Ata has premiered at the 30th Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival 2008, then has been selected to 100 Festivals worldwide, and awarded about 20 times. It then has been broadcast on France 3 (French National TV) and Ciné-Cinéma (French Satellite TV), and selected among the 10 Best Short Films in Turkey by the Turkish Center of Cinema. Çaǧla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti then directed Six, a fiction documentary shot in Japan. The film has premiered in the competition of the 62th Locarno Festival, and has then been selected in the 39th Rotterdam Festival, the FIDMarseille and the 40th Tampere Festival Festival, before it was awarded the CNC Best Short Film Award 2011 and the Best Short Film Prize in Macau, China. The co-directors have lately achieved Camera Obscura, a feature documentary shot in Istanbul, where they followed during several weeks blind people who wrote and directed fiction short films, which Premiered in the 29th Istanbul Film Festival. They shot Noor, their first feature film, in Pakistan thanks to the support of the MEDIA Program, and they are developing their next film, a feature film in Japan they wrote in a residence at the prestigious Villa Kujoyama.
