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Layers of Lies delivers creative fight scenes and a satisfying conclusion set in an intriguing location. The film's protagonist's abilities have inconsistencies, leading to a disheveled tone at times. The on-screen chemistry and motivations of the characters work well, but there are moments of abrupt and awkward writing that may evoke unintended reactions from the audience.

It’s more than enough that firefighters risk their lives every day trying to rescue people out of burning buildings. But now imagine, in the middle of a blaze, that same person who was sent in to save people steps right into the middle of a crime scene – one where someone is about to be shot. Well, that’s what happens in the first sequence of director (and actor) Ramin Sohrab’s 2022 flick called Layers of Lies, which is the first Iranian-Finnish action film ever produced.

With the fire raging and the sudden gunman not flinching,...

Through martial arts cinema Fighting Spirit Film Festival aims to entertain and inspire people, promote martial arts culture, and support those who have chosen it as a career. The Festival is back in London this year with a two day action packed programme, including films, two free seminars, demonstrations, and more.

Tickets for Fsff 2023 are now available! click Here to view the schedule and purchase tickets.

Events And Free Seminars:

Capoeira workshop with Michael Nelson-cole

This workshop will take place at the Tottenham Community Sports Centre Boxing gym from 6-8pm and is open to all ages. Michael Nelson-Cole will teach the basics of Capoeira and explain it's origin and background. Come and move, jump, kick, and see what you're capable of! Entry is just £5.

Free seminar: Martial arts in fiction with Goran Powell and Chris Bradford

Authors Goran Powell and Chris Bradford discuss the importance of storytelling/narrative in martial arts fiction.

Long term readers of this site may recognize the name of Finland based Iranian martial artist Ramin Sohrab as this is not his first time in these pages. Sohrab has risen to global attention over the years through a series of very impressive short films that have had fight fans keeping an eye on him for years as someone who may prove out to be a truly global level talent. And now? Now Sohrab takes the step into the feature world that people have been waiting for with his debut picture, the Tehran-set martial arts-action picture Layers of Lies. An ex-fireman returns to his home country Iran after a decade-long absence, only to have his old enemy resurface and steal away what he treasures most...

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The Cannes’ Film Market – in co-operation with the Fantasia International Film Festival will, for the third year, present the Frontières Platform for genre film projects and works in progress, running May 18-19.

Over the two days, Cannes Film Market will host two platforms for the 14 selected productions: Proof of Concept presentations for those still in financing stages, and a Buyers Showcase for films in post-production or recently completed.

Six features will participate in this year’s Buyer’s Showcase, where representatives will screen footage to sales agents, distributors and festival programmers. Meanwhile, eight projects which participated in the Frontières Finance & Packaging Forum in Helsinki this past February will offer up teasers at the Proof of Concept Presentations.

This year the event will also give out two new awards, the Frontières Warner Music Supervision Award and the Frontières Post Control VFX Boost Award.

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Well, now ... here's a little somthing interesting. It was back in 2014 that we first wrote about Iranian-Finnish martial artist Ramin Sohrab. The occassion was a hugely impressive proof of concept short for a feature film that Sohrab was hoping to film in Iran and while we were very much impressed there was also a certain degree of skepticism about whether the feature could ever actually happen as hoped. Because, you know, Iran. What are the chances of someone being able to shoot a full on, badass, martial arts film in Iran? But guess what? He's doing it. Right now. Sohrab is currently about a week in to the Tehran based section of the shoot of his upcoming feature Layers Of Lies. And that...

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The "Twelfth Doctor" Peter Capaldi will be in attendance at this year's Wizard World Minneapolis convention. Continue reading for more details on his appearance and the event itself. Also in today's Highlights: Night Visions Film Festival spring 2017 lineup, Jurassic Games production details, and trailers for Home Education and The Alienators.

Peter Capaldi to Appear at Wizard World Minneapolis: Press Release: "Minneapolis, March 30, 2017 – Peter Capaldi, who portrays the Twelfth and current iteration of "The Doctor" on the long-running science fiction series "Doctor Who," will make his Wizard World debut next month when he attends Wizard World Comic Con Minneapolis, May 6-7 at the Minneapolis Convention Center. Capaldi will greet fans, pose for photo ops, sign autographs and conduct an interactive fan Q&A during the pop culture extravaganza.

Capaldi has appeared as the title character in the BBC program since being introduced in the 50th Anniversary special, "The Day of the Doctor" and the 2013 Christmas episode,...

The latest video from Iranian/Finnish martial artist and filmmaker Ramin Sohrab has debuted and it's smoking. Our friends at Film Combat Syndicate debuted the video, along with this description: "Sohrab plays a man on his way to play his violin one last time for his wife, but not until he sets out into the seedy criminal underworld to retrieve it from the thieves who stole it from him." The proof-of-concept video was shot in Helsinki, Finland. Among Sohrab's credits, he made another promo video back in November 2014 for a project titled Malek. As our own Todd Brown wrote at the time: "Sohrab has released a promo reel which he directed and choreographed himself to show off both his skills and the look of the...

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New projects from Larry Fessenden, Rkss and John McNaughton among line-up at sixth edition, taking place July 23-26 in Montreal.

Having announced a first wave during Cannes, Frontières International Co-Production Market has unveiled the full line-up for its upcoming sixth edition.

Among the additional projects announced are The Designer from Glass Eye Pix (Larry Fessenden, Peter Phok, Graham Reznick), Todd E. Freeman’s The Beautiful, Enric Folch’s Duel documentary The Devil on Wheels and Huan Vu’s H.P. Lovecraft’s adaptation The Dreamlands.

They join the already announced projects from the likes of John McNaughton (Carny Kill), Turbo Kid film-makers Rkss (Elora) and Srdjan Spasojevic (Whereout).

Frontières will run July 23-26 at the Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal, following its second European edition at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival (Bifff) in April.

The expanded project line-up for the upcoming edition will see more projects participating in live pitch sessions.

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What's that? An Iranian martial arts star seems like an unlikely sort of thing to you? Well, I'd wager very few people were wondering where the next Iranian vampire story would come from before A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night sauntered through Sundance and that ended up working out just fine, so ...Meet Ramin Sohrab, the son of an Iranian martial arts master who spends at least part of his time in Finland - where he had some involvement in Aj Annila's Jade Warrior - but his focus now is on the Tehran set feature film Malek. With the film currently in development, Sohrab has released a promo reel which he directed and choreographed himself to show off both his skills and the look...

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