Opening Film at Osian's Cinefan 2007 : Raami by Babak Shirinshefat

• Osian’s-Cinefan will open with the International Premiere of Raami by Babak Shirinshefat. An Iran-Azerbaijan co-production, Raami is the director’s debut film.
• Ten years after the Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan a middle-aged Azerbaijani folk composer who has spent ten years in a war refugee camp in Sabirabad, goes looking for his Armenian wife and child. He heads for Iran since his family had been lost during the occupation of Jibrail and had fled to Iran. Based on the Azerbaijani legend of Asli and Karam, Raami deals with man’s relations with nature, war and music.
• Raami is a glorious fusion of myth and reality, an effortless telescoping of past and present, a meditation on intolerance, love and memory. Restrained and poetic, it is, in the words of the director, an “experience on the closeness of myths to our present time.”
• Babak Shirinsefat has mostly made short films and documentaries in Iranian Azerbaijan (from where he hails) since 1987. He is obsessed with the history, folklore and mythology of his birthplace, Azerbaijan. He made his first short fiction film, Image, in 1987. Since then, his films A Poem Like Life, Julia, Sword in Sheath and Train of Zero O’clock have been shown and awarded at several national and international festivals.
• Main Event : Osian's Cinefan - 9th Festival of Asian & Arab Cinema - 20th to 29th July, 2007