CEO: Italian film museum maintains 200 Iran titles
A collection of 200 Iranian films has been maintained at the National Museum of Cinema in Italian city of Turin, said the museum’s president.
Sergio Toffetti, who recently visited the Cinema Museum of Iran in Tehran, said the archived collection embodies works of Iranian directors including Nasser Taqvaei and Amir Naderi, according to ifilmtv.ir.
Toffetti is in Iran to attend a five-day session on Italian neorealist cinema that opened at the Film Museum of Iran on Thursday.
Italian neorealism is a national film program that is characterized by stories set among the poor and the working class.
Toffetti also met director of Cinema Museum of Iran Alireza Qasemkhan after visiting various sections of the museum.
Speaking about the history of Cinema Museum of Iran, Qasemkhan said that although the museum was launched 25 years ago, it could manage to archive 118 years of Iranian cinema and this will help preserve history.
Neorealism school in cinema is one of the reasons that Iranians have always been enthusiastic about Italian films, Qasemkhan stated.
Iranian and Italian officials both expressed hope about the joint project, adding that the program will pave the way for boosting cinematic and cultural relations between the two countries.