[caption id="attachment_116799" align="alignright" width="221"] A scene from Jamshid Mahmoudi’s 'A Few Cubic Meters of Love'[/caption]
Afghanistan has nominated Iranian filmmaker Jamshid Mahmoudi’s debut feature creation A Few Cubic Meters of Love to compete at the 2015 Academy Awards.
The Iranian movie, shot in Afghanistan, is to represent Afghanistan for Best Foreign Language Film Oscar of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

“My film is to be presented as an Afghan production at the 87th Academy Awards in 2015,” the film director Mahmoudi announced.

While A Few Cubic Meters of Love, which is a joint production of both Iran and Afghanistan, received the public screening permission across Iran for the second half of the current year, the film team decided to have it screened in Afghanistan before the Oscars’ deadline (end of September) and introduce the film as an Afghan production, the director explained.

According to Academy Awards’ regulations, only those movies which are screened in their countries before October 2 can be submitted to take part in the event.

Produced by Aseman-Parvaz Film Company, the 90-minute feature film premiered at the 2013 Fajr International Film Festival and won two Crystal Simorgh awards.

The film as a romantic drama chronicles tragic story of Afghan asylum seekers, who live with their families in old containers or modest shacks in shanty towns near Tehran.

The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film is annually given to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the US with a predominantly non-English dialogue track.

The 87th Annual Academy Awards is scheduled to be held on February 22, 2015.

By Press TV

 

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