There will be two short features screened for Short Features #1, part of Retrospective: Abbas Kiarostami.
Case No. 1, Case No. 2 (1979)
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Original Title: قضیه شکل اول، شکل دوم / Gazieh shekl-e aval, gazieh shekl-e dovom
Directed by: Abbas Kiarostami
Runtime: 48 min
Country: Iran
Language: Persian, with English subtitles
Rating: PG
ASIAN PREMIERE
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Full Synopsis
This extraordinary film was made in the spring of 1979, not long after the shah’s overthrow. Kiarostami stages two versions of a classroom discipline situation – in one, a student tells on a troublemaker; in the other, seven students refuse to rat – and then has several adult authorities comment on the outcomes. The fascinating responses evoke conflicts between order and resistance.
Text by Janus Films.
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Experience (1973)
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Original Title: تجربه / Tadjrobeh
Directed by: Abbas Kiarostami
Runtime: 56 min
Country: Iran
Language: Persian, with English subtitles
Rating: PG
ASIAN PREMIERE
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Full Synopsis
Based on a story by Amir Naderi, who also co-wrote the film, this slice of a fourteen-year-old boy’s life follows his efforts to fend for himself in the big city, working as a tea server and assistant in a photographer’s studio, running errands, and, briefly, exchanging glances with a pretty middle-class girl. With no music and little dialogue, and distinguished by its darkly elegant compositions, this film offers an impressionistic meditation on adolescent solitude.
Text by Janus Films.
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