The Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies at the University of California, Irvine, in collaboration with the Iranian American Women Foundation, invites you to a screening of movies by Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, a prominent Iranian filmmaker.
Nargess
May 10, 3 PM
Reception 5 PM
Nargess is a 1992 drama film, the fourth feature of Rakhshan Bani-Etemad.
The movie tells the story of a love triangle, two women are in love with the same young man, Adel, a thief, who is loved by the aging Afaq, also a thief. The story of the gang of thieves changes direction when Adel meets Nargess, a beautiful young girl from an impoverished family.
Under the Skin of The City
May 11, 3 PM
Reception: 5 PM
Under the Skin of the City is a 2001 Rakhshan Bani-E’temad movie entered into the 23rd Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Special Golden St. George.
A short film adapted from this movie in 2022 called “Zir-e Poost Shahr Tehran” directed by Abolfazl Amiri.
UCI McCormick Screening Room (HG 1070)
1000 Humanities Gateway, Irvine, CA 92697-3370
Ph: 949.824.5931
Film Screening & Discussion
May 13th, 7 PM
Touran Khanom, co-directed and co-produced by Mojtaba Mirtahmasb follows the efforts and preoccupations of Ms. Touran Mirhadi in the last four years of her life. It shows how she strove to enrich the field of child education in Iran to the age of 89, always maintaining that peace was to be cultivated at childhood.
Laemmle Thyeaters
11523 Santa Monica Blvd. Los Angeles, 90025
Organized by PARS Equality Center
