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THE FATHER
(Pedar)
(1996/Colour/96mins)
5th April 6:30 pm at Sarathi Preview theater
Direction : Majid Majidi
Writers : Mehdi Shojai & M. Majidi
Cinematographer : Mohsen Zolanvar
Editor : Hassan Hassandoost
Actors : Mohammad Kasebi, Parivash Nazaryeh, Hassan Sadeghi
Mehrollah is
a 14-years-old boy who is forced to provide for his family after
the death of his father to find a job. He travels to the southem
parts of the country. Upon his return to his hometown he notices
certain changes in the family.
TO
BE OR NOT TO BE
(Budan Ya Nabudan)
(1998/Colour/100mins)
6th April 6:30 pm at Sarathi Preview theater
Director & Scirptwriter: Kianoush Ayyari
Photography : Parviz Malekzde
Editor : A. Ayyari
Cast : Asal Badrie, Farhad Sharifi, Hossein llbeygi, Maryam Bubani,
Nur-Ali Lotfi, Lorik Minaslyan
Amir, the elder
son of a family gets married. During the wed ding a man, who was
in love with the bride, tries to disrupt the ceremony. Amir gets
into a fight with the intruder and receives a metal injury. The
young groom is hospitalized and the doctor reaches the conclusion
that his brain is dead and that nothing can be done for him. Under
the circumstances Dr. Alinezhad suggests that Amir's heart be donated
to a young girl named Anik who is need of heart transplant. Amir's
family are greatly disturbed and inflict wounds on the doctor.
Neverthless
the heart transplant operation is carried out.
CLOSE-UP
(Nama-Ye Nazdik)
(1990/Colour/90mins)
7th April 5:30 pm at Sarathi Preview theater
Director & Writer : Abbas Kiarostami
Cinematographer : Ali-Reza Zarindast
Editor : A. Kiarostami
Actors : Ali Sabzian, Hassan Farazmand, Abolfazi Ahankhah, Mohsen
Makhmalbaf (as himself).
A young man
introduces himself as Mohsen Makhmalbaf (the celebrated Iranian
film director) and under the pretext of working on a film project
and looking for interesting locations enters the life of a family.
The father of the family who is suspicious of the man's claims starts
investigating about him and finally gets the fake film-maker arrested.
THE LAST
ACT
(Pardeh Akhar)
(1991/Colour/105mins)
7th April 7:15 pm at Sarathi Preview theater
Direction & Writer : Varuzh Karim-Masihi
Cinematographer : Asghar Rafi' Jam
Editor : V. Kanim-Masihi
Actors : Farimah Farjami, Darioush Arjmand, Jamshid Hashempour,
Saaid Poursamimi, Niku Kheradmand.
The events
of the film occur in Tehran some time before world war two. The
story revolves around a brother and sister who scheme against their
sister-in-law, who has inherited the family wealth, on the basis
of a play written by the bro-ther.
SARA
(1993/Colour/100mins)
8th April 6:30 pm at Sarathi Preview theater
Direction & Writer : Darioush Mehrju
Cinematographer : Mahmoud Kalari
Editor : Hassan Hassandoust
Actors : Niki Karimi, Amin Tarokh, Khosro Shakibai, Yasmin Malek-Nasr
Hessam has to
travel abroad for medical treatment. His wife, sara, pays for the
expenses of the trip, explaining that the money has come from the
wealth bequeathed to her by her father.
Hessam returns
home after successful medical treatment. Meanwhile unbeknownst to
her husband Sara is trying hard to pay her debts by doing sewing
jobs. Goshtasb, the man who has given financial assistance to Sara,
is accused of forging documents and asks Sara to make her husband,
who is now the bank manager, to help Goshtasb keep his job.
Sara knows
that her father's signature on documents is forged, for it is she
who had forged it. When Hessam learns the truth he starts an argument
with Sara.
AND
LIFE GOES ON
(Zendagi va Digar Hich)
(1992/Colour/108mins)
9th April 6:30 pm at Sarathi Preview theater
Direction : Abbas Kiarostami
Writer : A. Kiarostami
Cinematographer: Homayuni Pievar
Editor : Changiz Sayad, A. Kiarostami
Actors : Farhad Kheradmand, Puya Pievar, and the people of Rudbar
and Rostambad towns.
And life Goes
on… is film in praise of life. After the terrible earthquake
that shook northern Iran in 1970, a father and son set out for the
devastated area to find out about the fates of the two young actors
of the film Where is The friend's Home? in the hometown of the tow
boys. The visitors discover that in spite of all the casualties
and the widespread destruction, for the survivors of the holocaust
life goes on in all its splendor.
LEILA
(1997/Colour/110mins)
10th April 6:30 pm at Sarathi Preview theater
Direction : Darioush Mehrjui
Writers : D. Mehrjui (based on a story by Mahnaz Ansarian)
Cinematographer : Mahmoud Kalari
Editor : Mostafa Kherghepoush
Actors :Leila Hatami, Ali Mosaffa, Jamileh Sheikhi, Mohammad-Reza
Sharifinia, Turan Mehrzad, Amir Paivar, Vahideh Mohammadi, Shagh-ayegh
Farahani, parisa Zarei, Fraj Balafkan.
Leila, a young
woman who has married the man she loves ardently, discovers that
she can never have a child of her own. Her husband Reza is not so
much concerned with issue, and believes their life will be beautiful
enough even without a child. Reza's mother, an autocratic woman
who has four daughters and only one son, makes Leila consent to
Reza's taking a second wife. Tortured by sense of guilt because
of her infertility, Leila subjected to the humiliation of accepting
the presence of another woman in her private world of love. The
film depicts the encounter of a woman with a painful reality that
is part of the recurring daily.
Other films
ONE POTATO
TWO POTATO
(USA/1964/b&W/90mins)
15th April 6:30 pm at Sarathi Preview theater
Direction : Larry Peerce
Cinematographer : Anarew Laszio
Music : George Emick
Cast : Barbara Barrie, Bamie Hamilton, Richard Mulligan, Marti Mericka
One Potato
Two Potato was the first American motion picture to deal with the
theme of interracial marriage between a black man and a while woman.
Essentially, it is a simple tale about ordinary people, some white,
some back.
Julie (Barbara
Barrie) has divorced Joe (Richard Mulligan), her white husband,
on the grounds of desertion. In order to support herself and her
little girl, Julie takes a job in a factory where she meets a Negro.
Frank (Bernie Hamiliton), Mutual admiration and compatibility evolve
into love and the couple decides to marry, mindful of possible problems
ahead. They go to live on a farm with Frank's parents. When Joe
returns and discovers that Julie's new husband is a Negro, he sues
for custody of his daughter. Then out of spite and racial resentment,
he attempts to seduce, unsuccessfully. Fearful of increasing the
odds against their custody case, Frank does nothing to redress this
grievance. "They won't let me be a man", he cries. Finally,
the court rules against the interracial couple, awarding the child
to her white father. The judge bases his decision on the presumptive
best interest of the in present day society.
The three Negro
roles in the emotion picture are done with integrity and sensitivity.
The inner turmoil and conflict confronting Frank are told with honesty.
SEEMA
(Hindi 1955/B&W/158mins)
16th April 6:30 pm at Sarathi Preview theater
Direction : Amiya Chakrabarty
Camera : V.Babasaheb
Music : Shankar & Jaikishan
Cast : Nutan, Balraj Sahani, Shuda Khote, Sunder.
Injustice and
inhumanity turn an innocent girl into the embodiment of fury, full
of hatred against her fellow beings and burning to wreak vengeance
upon them all. An empathetic superintendent of a reformatory ashram,
transforms her though love and kindness. An intensely human document
with Nutan and Balraj Sahani giving powerful performances.
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