Iranian filmmaker might have best story of festival

Pouria Heidary Oureh of Iran might have the most amazing story of the Woodstock Film Festival. And we?re not talking about his film.

His film is ?An Sooye Bonbast (Beyond Dead-end).? It?s part of the Foreign Affairs shorts series, which will be screened at 6 p.m. at the Kleinert-James Center for the Arts. It made its world premiere here in Woodstock, and getting to Woodstock for Heidary Oureh, well that was the tough part.

Years ago, Heidary Oureh boarded a plane on which nine people died. He snubbed plane trips from that moment. He would take a train to Turkey. But if he had to fly, if he really had to, he would, but afterward, he would take two full days to sleep. So when he flew from Iran to New York City early this week, he spent two days sleeping. Then he came to Woodstock.

Heidary Oureh expected his mother to fly out to see his premiere. She did, but so did other family members and friends, including cousins he had never met. He?s been beaming all festival long, a tall kid wearing black clothing and a scruffy beard. And he loves it here, saying it feels like home. Most of all, he loves that people here don?t back away when he says he?s from Iran. In fact, people want to know more. People want to talk to him.

The movie? It?s about a vagabond obsessed with his shoes, and what happens when he loses them. Heidary Oureh, right now at least, has everything.

Source: http://blogs.hudsonvalley.com/wff/2012/10/14/iranian-filmmaker-might-have-best-story-of-festival/

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