Karlovy Vary film festival presents Iraqi and Iranian authors

The 45th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival presented on Tuesday films by Iranian and Iraqi authors. The film Son of Babylon by the Iraqi director Mohamed Al-Daradj is not included in the festival’s main competition; a co-production of the UK, France, Holland, Palestine, UAE and Egypt, it tells the story of a 13-year-old boy and his grandmother following the fall of Saddam Hussein. The Iranian film There are Things You Don’t Know about a taxi driver in Tehran is by Fardin Saheb Zamani, and it does compete for the main award at Karlovy Vary.

The 45th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival kicked off on Friday; it welcomed the biggest star among its guest, British actor Jude Law, on Sunday. The festival goes on in the west Bohemian spa town until July 10.