Cinema City (Sinama Shahr-E Gheseh)

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Davood is a cinema projectionist and loses his job at the onset of the Islamic Revolution in 1979. The revolutionaries burn down the theaters and Davood who loves action movies is forced to set up a home theater in his basement. During this time he also falls in love with Elham, who is the daughter of a hardcore revolutionary. Her father is strongly opposed to cinema and objects to heir marriage… The movie is a collection of 120 stills from the history of Iranian cinema.

Cast: Hamed Komeili, Anahita Dargahi, Babak Karimi, Hedie Tehrani, Jamshid Mashayekhi

Runtime
1h 40m
Year
2019
Director
keyvan Alimohammadi & Aliakbar Heydari
Format
DCP
Country
Iran
Language
Persian with English subtitles
First Showing
August 20, 2023
Categories
  • Assisted Listening