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MAY 9th - THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE / 

EL ESPÍRITU DE LA COLMENA
1973, 99 min, 35mm. In Spanish with English subtitles.

In a small Castilian village in 1940, in the wake of Spain’s devastating civil war, six-year-old Ana attends a traveling movie show of FRANKENSTEIN and becomes possessed by the memory of it.

Preceeded by SOLAR ECLIPSE directed by Raha Amirfazli & Alireza Ghasemi

May 10th - RATCATCHER 

1999, 94 min, 35mm. English

James Gillespie (William Eadie) is 12 years old. The world he knew is changing. Haunted by a secret, he has become a stranger in his own family. He is drawn to the canal where he creates a world of his own.

Preceeded by NEEDLE directed by Anahita Ghazvinizadeh

Cinema Tehran arrives in Berlin with two nights of world cinema (8PM - 10PM)

April 25 showing ASHKAL by Yousef Chebbi

Ashkal (“shapes” in Arabic) is set in the environs of a halted construction site for a district in northern Tunis that never came to be—called the Gardens of Carthage, it had been intended for dignitaries of the country's former regime before the 2010 revolution.

April 26th showing BRICK & MIRROR by Ebrahim Golestan

A taxi driver discovers a baby in the backseat after a young woman leaves his cab. He and his girlfriend struggle to cope with the unwanted child.

March 29th, showing: “Color of Pomegranates”(35mm) — 

Soviet filmmaker Sergei Parajanov explored his Transcaucasian roots in this visually spectacular and wonderfully strange ode to the Armenian poet Sayat-Nova.

“In the temple of cinema there are images, light and reality. Sergei Paradjanov was the master of that temple…” - Jean-Luc Godard
 

March 30th, showing: "Gabbeh" — A film by Mohsen Makhmalbaf. When an old couple washes their gabbeh - a type of Persian rug - a young woman magically appears and tells them her life story. This film was banned in Iran.