Our world-class film series offers opportunities to see films not widely available in the United States, as well as to meet directors, actors, and film scholars.
Unless noted, films are shown free of charge in the three hundred-seat Meyer Auditorium. Seating is first come, first served. Auditorium doors open approximately thirty minutes before show time.
Films:
"Filmfarsi" on Sunday, January 19, 1:30 pm
Before the 1979 revolution, Iran was home to a thriving popular film industry packed with violence and melodrama, and populated with sexy starlets and macho action stars. Most of these films are now lost, but for a few surviving underground VHS tapes. Taking as its starting point the 1978 arson attack the Cinema Rex movie theater in Abadan, which killed over 400 people, Ehsan Khoshbakht’s…
"Old Men Never Die" on Sunday, January 19, 3:30 pm
This dark comic fable takes place in a rugged mountain village where, for forty-five years, no one has died, but not for lack of trying. Crotchety old men, some over a century old, spend their days smoking, bickering, soaking in the bathhouse, and trying to figure out how to commit suicide without being stopped by the detachment of exasperated soldiers in charge of keeping them alive. First-time…
"Gholam" on Friday, January 31, 7 pm
Mitra Tabrizian, whose photographs are included in the exhibition My Iran: Six Women Photographers, discusses Gholam, her “striking feature debut” (Mark Kermode, The Guardian). Set in London’s Iranian exile community during the 2011 Arab Spring, it features a mesmerizing performance by Shahab Hosseini (the star of Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman) as a taxi…
"Just 6.5" on Sunday, February 2, 2 pm
A Separation star Payman Maadi plays a detective determined to nab a notorious drug kingpin in a caper that dominated Iran’s box office and won the audience award at the Fajr Film Festival in Tehran. It’s easy to see why: from its fast-paced opening scenes, in which addicts are rounded up for arrest, to its devastating finale, Just 6.5 is a nonstop thrill ride with a sincere social message at…
This festival is cocurated by Tom Vick of the Freer and Sackler; Carter Long of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and Marian Luntz of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. It is cosponsored by the ILEX Foundation.
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