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Films in February, 2006
 
     
  Iranian Film Festival
Courtesy : Iranian Film Club
 
     
  16thFebruary
 
   
  7:00 PM
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Film-You Are Free’ (90 mins/2001)  
     
Wri & Dir.Mohammad Ali Talebi

the film follows the life of two boys from a reformatory school through their journey of discovery and transformation within and outside the school.

 
         
  20 nd February      
  7:00 PM
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Choori’ (75 mins, 2001)  
     
Wri&Dir.Javad Ardakani

Choori exquisitely captures the independent spirit of children and their compassion for animals.

 
         
  27thFebruary      
  7:00 PM
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Blackboard’(76mins/2000)  
     
Dir. Samira Makhmalbaf

Winner of the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000, Samira seamlessly blends politics with poetry, portraying the devastated condition of Iraqi Kurds on the run, but also revealing the delicate, impossible hope of these pilgrims as they trudge relentlessly toward the Iraqi border.

 
         
 
OTHER FILMS
         
  28th February      
  6:30 PM
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FILM CLUB DISCUSSION Group meets for a screening and discussion of Terry Gilliam's Brazil (UK / 1985 / 142 mins). Media artist and scholar, Shuddhabrata Sengupta will introduce the film and facilitate the discussion.

 
     

 

 
       
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