IRANIAN FILM SHORTS 1961-1990 Screening

In solidarity with he revolutionaries attempting to overthrow the IRGC, we are screening these 4 film shorts from Iran's most celebrated directors as part of our week long Persian Film Fest at FOMO Secret Cinema.

Tabaki - 27m Bahman Kiarostami
Bahman Kiarostami’s charming documentary about mourners-for-hire who are called upon to attend funerals in Iran.

The Bread and Alley - 10m Abbas Kiarostami
A child carrying a bread is going home but there is a frightening dog in an alley he needs to go through and he is too afraid to pass it alone.

The House is Black - 22m Forugh Farrokhzad
With The House is Black, Farrokhzad unflinchingly captures the world of a leper colony in Tabriz, Iran. She recites her own poetry over images of everyday life for a people shut away from society. Farrokhzad’s portrait highlights a world weighed down by tragedy yet uplifted by community. The result is a heartbreaking film that eschews condescension in favor of hard-won empathy.

Yek Arash (A Fire) - 24m Ebrahim Golestan
Ebrahim Golestan directs a highly visual treatment of a seventy-day oil well fire in the Khuzestan region of southwestern Iran. This film was edited by the Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad and won two awards at the Venice Film Festival in 1961

These films are by no means political. Rather they show glimpses of what life was like before and after the Islamic Revolution through the eyes of four masterful filmmakers.