TEHRAN, Feb. 20 (Mehr News Agency) -- "Jan-i-Gal", a production directed by Iranian Kurdish filmmaker Jamil Rostami was screened for a group of international film distributors, cineastes and Iranians residing in the U.S. on February 17 and 18.
The movie was screened in Los Angeles and San Francisco and was highly acclaimed by both spectators and critics.
"Jan-i-Gal" has been selected to represent Iraq in the category of Best Foreign Language Film at the 80th Annual Academy Awards this year. It tells the story of a man called Jwamer, who is seriously wounded and arrested by mistake as the ringleader of a demonstration in the town
of Sulaymaniah.
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