| Details | Available for up to 300 views in DC, Maryland, and Virginia from January 22–February 7 Stream it here: https://iranfestdc.eventive.org Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRy3TbwTrCQ Join director Shahram Mokri for a live Q&A on February 4 at 7 pm. Check back here for the registration link. Shahram Mokri, whose single-take feature Fish and Cat wowed audiences a few years ago, returns with a brilliantly constructed reflection on cinema and its importance in Iranian culture. In it, four men in contemporary Iran plot to replicate a horrific arson attack on a movie theater that occurred during the Iranian Revolution and killed 478 people. Meanwhile, inside the theater, the audience assembles to watch a film by Shahram Mokri called Careless Crime about an unexploded missile in the countryside. Mokri weaves these meta-cinematic and meta-historical narratives together until fact, fiction, past, and present merge. In this “pure stroke of genius” (Martin Kudlac, Screen Anarchy), “time doesn’t just shift…it also folds like origami and pirouettes, the past and present so close as they dance they can feel each other’s breath.” (Amber Wilkinson, Eye for Film). Winner of the Silver Hugo Jury Prize at the 2020 Chicago International Film Festival, and the award for best screenplay at the 2020 Venice Film Festival. (Dir.: Shahram Mokri, Iran, 2020, 134 min., Persian with English subtitles)
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