UCLA Celebration of Iranian Cinema
Good Bye (Be Omid E Didar) (2011), Directed by Mohammad Rasoulof
Winner of best director honors in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, Mohammad Rasoulof’s film offers an incisive portrait of an Iranian citizen straining under curtailed personal freedoms. Noura is an attorney whose license has been revoked by the government, as her resultant attempts at escape meet with ever-mounting roadblocks. Evoking a sense of dread and despair, Rasoulof (himself officially constrained from making more films) constructs a fitting metaphor for the stultifying pressures faced by many in today’s Iran.
Producer/Screenwriter: Mohammad Rasoulof. Cinematographer: Arastoo Givi. Editor: Mohamadreza Muini. Cast: Leyla Zareh, Hassan Pourshirazi, Behname Tashakor, Fereshteh Sadreorafai, Shahab Hoseini.
35mm, color, 100 min.
This is Not a Film (In Film Nist) (2010),Directed by Mojtaba Mirtamasb, Jafar Panahi
Jafar Panahi, whose work has been featured in past editions, has produced a highly unconventional documentary depicting his life under house arrest, officially constrained from making films by Iran’s government. Smuggled out of Iran on a USB stick hidden in a cake, this “non”-film (shot in part with a mobile phone) depicts the defiant director passing time in his Tehran apartment and describing work that he would like to have made.
Producer: Mojtaba Mirtamasb, Jafar Panahi. Screenwriter: J. Panahi. Cast: J. Panahi.
Digital video, color, 75 min.
Admission:
$9 general; $8 students and seniors; free to UCLA students; $10 online purchase
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