Bashu, the Little Stranger: Iranian Film retrospective at the REX cinema

NOTE: In Farsi with German and French subtitles.

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.

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Tonight's movie, from Wikipedia: Bashu, the Little Stranger is a 1986 Iranian drama film directed by Bahram Beizai. The film was produced in 1986, and was released in 1989. This multi-ethnic film was the first Iranian film to make use of Gilaki, a northern language of Iran, in a serious context rather than comic relief.

The Institute for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (IIDCYA) helped produce the film. The film was voted the "Best Iranian Film of all time" in November 1999 by a Persian movie magazine Picture World poll of 150 Iranian critics and professionals.