Juha- Aki Kaurismaki (1999)

A Finnish director, producer, script writer Aki Kaurismaki's is a most successful French director, he has won many awards for his movie The Man Without Out Past,, he had won Grand Pix and the Prize of the ecumenical Jury at Cannes film festival,2002. He has direted many feature films, documentaries and short stories like Crime and Punishment, The Match Factory Girl,Juha, Total Balalalika Show, Rocky VI.

Juha's is the fourth adaptation of this love triangle involving one woman and two men.The original story revolves around a poor girl who planned to marry a simple man but older than actress,Marja.




She fall in love with Russian salesman who came to there house.He lures Mara and convince her to leave the house. Marja leaves her husband, for spending better life in the city with the salesman Shemeikka. But unfortunately, her dreams become nightmare when Shimikka drags her in the prostitution.

It is a silent shot movie in black-white with a dialogue coming in the form of subtitles. Juha has been shown in many International Film Festivals like Berlin,Toronto, New Zealand, United States.

Song of the Sparrows

Directed by- Mijid Majidi
Produced by- Mijid Majidi
Written by- Mijid Majidi
Music by- Hossein Alizdeh
Country- Iran
Language- Persian


Song of the Sparrows is an Iranian film directed by Majid Majidi in the 2008. This movie is a rural comedy and meanders through urban neo-realism. Majid Majidi shows his comedic colors, with an opening scene in which the protagonist, Karim has the worst day ever at his job at Ostrich farm. One day, one of the ostrich escape because of Karim's mistake. He find the ostrich a lot but he did not get the success in that ,then find new job in Tehran but again he faces many difficulties.




Majidi is the only Iranian director ever to have a film nominated for an Academy Award. Majidi's projects usually focus on children. This movie has win Asia Pacific Screen Award for best performance by an actor Reza Naji and selected as Iran's best foreign language film in the 81th Academy Award.

Blind Mountain

Blind Mountain was realised in 2007. It is a Chinese movie directed by Li Yang. This movie is about China's social problem. This is all about selling women for marriage in modern day China. The film opens with a young , perilously open-faced college graduate, Bai Xuemei - played Huang Lu. She was anxious to help her parents out of debt.




Bai believes that she and the strangers will be buying medicinal herbs that can be profitably sell elsewhere. In the process, she was drugged, kidnapped and sold as a bride to a villeger in the Qinling Mountains. After that she suffers from being rapped by her "husband" and after few months she gave a birth to a baby boy. With help of friends she ran away from the village but she failed.


In the end no one wins because Bai Xuemei's child is left without mother and family of her "husband" left with no daughter in-law. The ending concludes with the text that the problem of human trafficing in modern day China. This movie was nominated in International Film Festival, Bratislava 2007, Grand Pix AND Special Mention of the Ecumenical Jury.