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Tariki (Iran, 2019)
Umbra
L.A. premiere!
A young woman walks out into the street at night in search of her lover but encounters a mysterious, threatening stranger instead in this short that premiered at Cannes in 2018.
DCP, color, 15 min. Director: Saeed Jafarian. Screenwriter: S. Jafarian Fatemeh Abdoli. Cast: Mahsa Alafar Banipal Shoomoon.
Tehran: City of Love (Iran/UK/The Netherlands, 2019)
L.A. premiere!
Three lonely hearts—a bodybuilder, a receptionist and a religious singer—navigate the chilly waters of romance in an alienating urban landscape that puts the irony in the title of writer-director Ali Jaberansari’s second feature. Jaberansa’s deadpan humor and a wry visual style make this an offbeat romantic comedy that suggests it’s the absurdity of pursuing love, not its triumphs, that really makes us human.
DCP, color, 102 min. Director: Ali Jaberansari. Screenwriter: A. Jaberansari, Maryam Najafi. Cast: Forough Ghajabegli, Mehdi Saki, Amir Hessam Bakhtiari.
