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Los Angeles, 18th Annual Celebration of Iranian Cinema at UCLA

 

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March 14 - April 20

2008 marks the Archive's 18th annual Celebration of Iranian Cinema, and our program this year is as eclectic and diverse as ever. This year's offerings include seven new features from Iran and the Diaspora, as well as compelling new documentary and short works on film and video.

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A major identifiable theme in this year's program is Iranian culture, whether it's pop culture—including a love triangle and murder that rocked Iran in 2002 (The Red Card) and provided steamy headlines for the Iranian tabloids for months; military culture in Night Bus and Those Three; small town culture in Dandelions Dance in the Wind; an irreverent and entertaining "history" of the city of Tehran in Tehran Has No More Pomegranates!; and an ode to one of the world's most important and enduring art forms in Persian Carpet, which features contributions by contemporary Iran's leading filmmakers, from Bahman Ghobadi to Rakhshan Bani-Etemad.

Nevertheless, most of the works in this series are by emerging directors and the program provides audiences with the opportunity to discover new filmmaking talent from Iran. We also hope to welcome several guests to present and discuss their work in person. Please check our website at www.cinema.ucla.edu for updates on in-person guests for this program.

All films are in Persian with English subtitles, unless otherwise noted.

Special thanks to: Mark Amin.

Additional thanks to: Erica Ginsburg; Bo Smith, Rebecca Mercer—Museum of Fine Arts Boston; Barbara Scharres—Gene Siskel Film Center

 

 


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