New Habit presents 3 Iranian shorts (fundraiser)

New Habit Cinema presents three short films to raise funds for victims of the US-Israel war in the Middle East. Donations will be distributed via mutual aid directly with organizers in the region.

◦ Admittance is free, donations encouraged!
◦ Doors at 7, Films at 7:30

They will be having a raffle with donations from local businesses and artists including @ilysm_books @perlysrichmond @groovedeep @circle_rva @daryl_rodriguez @shelflifebooksrva

The House is Black dir. Forough Farrokhzad, 1963
خانه سیاه است به کارگردانی فروغ فرخزاد (۱۳۴۲)
Directed by beloved Iranian modernist poet Forough Farrokhzad and set in a leper colony in the north of Iran, The House is Black explores beauty and suffering with readings from the Old Testament, the Qur’an and Forough’s own poetry.

First Case, Second Case dir. Abbas Kiarostami, 1979
قضیه شکل اول... شکل دوم به کارگردانی عباس کیارستمی (۱۳۵۸)
A film from before the height of the Iranian Revolution that contrasts establishment to resistance. Portraying two variations of a teacher-student dispute, director Kiarostami examines morality and ideology from the lens of the classroom.

Orderly or Disorderly dir. Abbas Kiarostami, 1981
به ترتیب یا بدون ترتیب؟ به کارگردانی عباس کیارستمی (۱۳۶۰)
A sense of order is the necessary basis of any good social organisation. Kiarostami directs a series of paired scenes in this educational short film depicting orderly and disorderly versions of events. Depictions of children lining up versus crowding into a bus set the film up to abandon moral judgment in favor of children’s anarchy.