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XV Festival Internacional de Cine Documental
Hamsorayan
The Chorus
Abbas Kiarostami
Iran
17
Spanish Premiere
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Synopsis
An old man strolls through the noisy streets of Rasht, and when his hearing aid is knocked out of his ear, the film’s sound goes off, too, mimicking the silence that envelops him. At home, the same thing happens when he takes the device out, and Kiarostami intercuts his silent actions with the clamor of schoolgirls who try to get his attention from outside. Another Kiarostami meditation on the contrasts of silence and sound, age and youth, solitude and solidarity.
Director biography
Abbas Kiarostami
Kiarostami studied Fine Arts at the University of Tehran, worked as a graphic designer and then joined the Institute for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, where he set up the filmmaking department. That is where his film career started, at the age of 30, with the neorealist short film Bread and Alley. In 1969 he married Parvin Amir-Gholi, whom he divorced in 1982; he has two children: Ahmad (1971) and Bahman (1978). Kiarostami belongs to the generation of filmmakers who started the renowned Iranian New Wave, which began in the 1960s and became popular in 1970. This movement created innovative artistic films that were highly philosophical and political in nature; some using realism, others through metaphor. He was also a poet; he published a collection of verse in 1999.
Finished
Sessions
May
Saturday 29
19:45 h
CINETECA - Plató
Credits
Language
Persian - Subtitles in spanish
Director
Abbas Kiarostami