Details | In person: Mitra Tabrizian, director Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ObR4sCxrBo Mitra Tabrizian, whose photographs are included in the exhibition My Iran: Six Women Photographers, discusses Gholam, her “striking feature debut” (Mark Kermode, The Guardian). Set in London’s Iranian exile community during the 2011 Arab Spring, it features a mesmerizing performance by Shahab Hosseini (the star of Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman) as a taxi driver with a mysterious past. He is drawn into Iran’s political turmoil, no matter how hard he tries to resist. (Dir.: Mitra Tabrizian, United Kingdom, 2018, 94 min., English and Persian with English subtitles) Preceded by The Insider, a poetic contemplation on Albert Camus’ The Outsider with text by Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri. (Dir.: Mitra Tabrizian, United Kingdom, 2018, 6 min., Blu Ray, English) |
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