Original title: Eclipse Series 47: Abbas Kiarostami - Early Shorts and Features
Year: 1970 - 1989
Country: Iran
Region code: A
Content: Blu-Ray
EAN: 715515316613
Image: 1.85:1, 1.66:1, 1.37:1 (1080p)
HDR: -
Audio: Persian
Subtitles: English
Age rating: Not Rated
Genre: Drama
Cast: Babak Ahmadpoor, Farhang Akhavan
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Synopsis:
Long before he became one of the most renowned artists in world cinema, the great Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami began his cinematic career at Tehran's Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (aka Kanoon), where he honed his distinctive style and themes. During his first decades as a filmmaker, Kiarostami moved freely among documentary, narrative, and even animation, and between joyous short films made for children and subtle works exploring the struggles of adolescents. Often using the classroom as a laboratory, he probed social and political tensions in Iranian society during the turbulent years before and after the 1979 revolution. Spanning his very first short, Bread and Alley (which the director called the “mother of all my films”); other underseen early revelations, like Experience and The Traveler; and nonfiction masterpieces such as Homework, the graceful, warm, and playful works collected here find moments of transcendent poetry within everyday life, and use deceptively simple premises to express universal truths about the human condition.
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