Rainbow Film Society is delighted to present the 9th Rainbow Film Festival, taking place at Rich Mix Cultural Foundation, Genesis Cinema, the Brady Arts Centre and Museum in Docklands. The Festival’s main aim is to explore the history and culture of other countries and their traditions and promote cultural diversity and social cohesion. As well as showcasing established artists, the Festival gives a voice to emerging local talent.
WAKE UP AREZOO (BIDAR SHO, AREZOO!)
90 min./ Iran/ Dir. Kianoosh Ayyari/ With: Mehran Rajabi, Mohammad-Hossein Akbari
Moments after an earthquake in a small village, a young teacher pulls herself from the debris and moves toward the town of Bam to find help. As soon as she sees the ruins of the city, she stays to help the injured. She meets a bereaved prisoner who has lost his entire family in the earthquake. She convinces the prisoner and a young Red Crescent helper to move to the village.
A riveting yet respectful drama about the earthquake that destroyed the 2,000 year-old Iranian city of Bam, ‘Wake Up, Arezoo!’ ranks as one of the most realistic catastrophe movies ever made.
Thur 29th May/ Genesis Cinema/ 7.30 p.m
MEN AT WORK (KARGARAN MASHGHOULE KARAND)
78 min./ Iran /2006/ Dir. Mani Haghighi/ With: Attila Pesyani, Mahmoud Kalari, Ahmad Hamed/ Cert. 15
‘Sophisticated audiences will enjoy this thoroughly modern spoof on masculine fixations, played out in frank, realistic dialogue.’ Deborah Young, Variety
Based on an idea by pre-eminent Iranian director, Abbas Kiarostami, Men at Work tells the hilarious story of four old friends who, driving back from a skiing trip, encounter an unfamiliar, oddly-shaped giant rock. The men's frivolous attempt to dislodge the rock gradually disintegrates into a tale of betrayal, defeat, and, finally, renewed hope. Trying to shift (an undeniably phallic) rock is both a metaphor for any kind of obstacle that one may face in life, and a pure comedy about how difficult it is to dislodge a big rock from the earth!
Through alternating episodes of silence, physical comedy, emotional outbursts and acts of desperation, we learn of our protagonists’ relationships with women and with each other, but mainly we witness how widely their approaches to solving the ‘problem’ of the rock vary.
Sat 31st May/ Rich Mix Centre/ 7.30 p.m
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