INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
TEHRAN-The acclaimed Iranian documentary The House Is Black directed by Forugh Farrokhzad will be evaluated at the Cinema Museum of Iran on
Monday.The movie screening, set for 5 p.m., is from the Documentary Nights program of the Cinema Museum, Mehr reported.It will be followed
by a review session in the presence of veteran documentary filmmaker Pirooz Kalantari and film critic Parviz Jahed.The movie is a take a
look at life and suffering in a leper nest and focuses on the human condition and the charm of creation.The House Is Black discovers
unforeseen grace where few would believe to look: a leper nest whose residents live, worship, find out, play, and commemorate in a
self-contained neighborhood cut off from the rest of the world
On the other hand, the kids go to school
Some of them are visibly impacted by the disease, while others look healthyfor now, at least.Through ruminative voiceover narration drawn
from the Old Testament, the Quran, and the filmmakers own poetry and unflinching images that decline to avert from physical distinction,
Farrokhzad creates a profoundly empathetic portrait of those cast off by societya in person encounter with the humanity behind the disease.A
succession of mindful black-and-white shots endows the deformities with their own appeal and combines together everyday moments of pain,
misery, warmth, and happiness into an exceptionally human document.The film features video from the Bababaghi Hospice leper nest
It was the only film she directed before her death in 1967
After shooting this film, she embraced a kid from the colony, her child Hossein.In 2019, a brought back print of the movie debuted at the
Venice International Film Festival.After a remain in Europe in 1958, Forugh Farrokhzad, most widely known as a poet, returned to Iran and
fulfilled filmmaker Ebrahim Golestan
She operated at his film studio, where she gained a chance to work as an editor on his documentaries, before directing The House Is Black in
cooperation with a leprosy charity.Although the movie attracted little attention outside Iran when released, it has considering that been
recognized as a landmark in Iranian film
In 1963, the movie was awarded the grand reward for the category documentary at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen in West
Germany.The Cinema Museum of Iran is located in Tehrans high end Bagh-e-Ferdows community, Valiasr St., near Tajrish Square
Participation in this program is devoid of charge.SS/
