Shorts Program # 1
Full Synopsis
The Experience For You
Sanam [8] + Wavelength [5] + Demonstration [7] + The Shadow [15] + Lines of Exile [7] + Closed Circuit [11] + The Goodbye [4] + Imaginary Scene [2] + Iran on the Road [4] + House [2] + To Be [10] + Stars in the Rain [10] + The Letter [3] + Zaghchi [20] + The Phoenix [14] + The Kids [11] = 104 minutes
Film(s) To Be Screened
Wavelength
Professor Mahmoud Hessabi puts aside all his medals and honors to show the main reason for his life and his most precious thing.
The Shadow
The Shadow is about actor Golbon Eghtedari, who plays an insurgent character in the Clint Eastwood movie American Sniper. Golbon, who was born in Iran, discusses her conflicted feelings about her role and the film. Alshaibi’s documentary examines how the Hollywood film vilifies people from the Middle East with inaccurate and racist representations.
Sanam
This music video includes non-verbal and traditional Iranian music. In a small part of it, Master Mohammad Reza Ishaqi sings a short song. This music video expresses true and heavenly love. In this video, an attempt is made to show the love of achieving liberation and freedom. It is difficult to achieve freedom and liberation, but it is not impossible.
The Goodbye
Our memories of love often take on the consistency of a dream or hallucination. This Story conveys the elusive, ineffable qualities of that particular feeling through precision art and utmost patience.
Lines of Exile
Hamid Naficy’s fifty years of drawings of prominent scholars, philosophers, and theorists form a unique index of the evolution of cultural theory over the last decades. In this portrait, Naficy intimately recounts this evolution through his drawings.
Zaghchi
A 16-year-old teenager risks his life to save his mother to maintain his family status and escape from poverty. Nevertheless, he walks into a dangerous game and has no other choice but to fight it.
The Letter
The story is happening in 16th century in Persia and it’s about a forbidden and risky love between a princess and a poet. They can connect to each other just with sending letter but even sending a letter should pass a dangerous journey.
Demonstration
Police officer Mikaela and her older colleague Robert are holding a lecture to a class of fourth graders about their profession. We follow an event where a position of power is pushed to its extreme when Robert becomes too graphic in his demonstration.
Stars In the Rain
On a rainy day, passengers on a train watch a boy board a train. The boy brings light back to their world with his little miracles.
Iran on the Road
Iran: a road trip through the ancient land of Persia. From Teheran, a 15 million people vibrant metropolitan area, to get lost in Shiraz’s bazars and café’s, crossing then the legendary ancient city of Persepolis, Yazd, Meybond, Isfahan, Kashan. A 1300 kilometers-long road trip through endless spaces and magnificent landscapes. Bazars, tea houses in the middle of nowhere, the complexity of the magnificent artworks insides the Mosques in contrasts with the small streets of historical Yazd, in which the perfume of freshly baked bread keeps you going in an incredible journey. Kids playing in the streets, a crowd of families having a picnic in every public garden: “Where are you from?” they’ll ask while offering you a cup of tea. “Welcome to Iran.”
The Phoenix
Energy can neither be created nor destroyed; rather, it can only be transformed from one to another Also, regarding the Sisyphus (The Myth of Sisyphus Novel by Albert Camus) he never changes but transformers from a form to another one and that is the story of our universe(earth).
The Kids
"Sina" and "Mobina" are teenage brother and sister. They have behavioral and educational differences. They experience the emotional separation that prevails in their family. The reason for this difference is the fragile and tense relationship between their parents, who are on the verge of separation. So, Sina and Mobina decide to legally separate from each other and go to family court. This is the first time a sibling has decided legally to separate....
Imaginary Scene
In a crowded shopping center (mall) people are moving around and everything changes with the sudden arrival of coronavirus. People get frightened, but a swan reminds people of the power of love.
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Screening Location
Online Screening
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Viewing Time
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September 18, 2021, 12:15 pm EST
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Event is over, tickets no longer available.
Video-On-Demand Availability
VOD Start: September 18, 2021, 6:00 pm
VOD End: September 26, 2021, 12:00 am
VOD Playback will be limited between those dates.
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