Salam Cinema: Iranian Film retrospective at the REX cinema

Sixty years after the Iranian New Wave, 46 years after the revolution, 9 years after Abbas Kiarostami's death and 2 years after the assassination of Dariush Mehrjui, the REX cinema is offering the opportunity to compare pre- and post-revolutionary films from Iran and to discover new connections.

Meeting time allows us 15 minutes before the film starts to find each other - please be on time so we can get seats together. In Farsi with English subtitles.

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Tonight's movie, from Wikipedia: Salaam Cinema (English: Hello Cinema) is a 1995 Iranian film directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. It was made for the celebration of the 100th anniversary of cinema. The year 1895 is considered the debut of the motion picture as an entertainment medium. The year 1895 was the year of the first film screenings by Auguste and Louis Lumière.

Made in a fashion to resemble a documentary, the film starts with the music of the "Dance of Spring" by Shahrdad Rohani, showing a huge crowd of people gathering outside a studio. Makhmalbaf has put an advertisement in the papers, asking for 100 actors, and thousands have shown up. The film goes on to show different people being auditioned and each explaining their reason for wanting to act in a film.