Another event for childre aged 5 and up follows on Sunday October 10, also as part of the Abbas Kiarostami Retrospective. From the beginning of the 70s, Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami worked for the film department of the newly founded “Kanoon” in Tehran, an institute for the intellectual development of children and young people. Here he shot short films for children and young people, including educational films and fiction works using motifs from their everyday surroundings. The film TWO SOLUTIONS FOR ONE PROBLEM (1975) conveys how children resolve conflicts in humorous, but also instructive fashion. COLOURS (1976) goes cheerfully looking for colors in real life. SO CAN I (1975) places a focus on the movements of animals and people: can you jump like a kangaroo, crawl like a caterpillar, and climb like an ape? Kiarostami’s first short THE BREAD AND ALLEY (1970) accompanies a little boy on his way back home from the bakery. Without dialogue, the black-and-white film is the story of the test of courage that the little boy must pass in the alley. (sts) The film program will be accompanied by a spoken translation.
And Life Goes On – Abbas Kiarostami Retrospective
70 mm: ALIENS
Relationships in the Cold War – Films Between North Africa and the Eastern Bloc
Reading Labels in the Dark – Flux and Other Films from the Arsenal Archive
Big Cinema, Small Cinema #44: Astonishment at the Everyday
Big Cinema, Small Cinema #45: Kiarostami Shorts
Big Cinema, Small Cinema #46: In the Rhythm of the Colors