List of Persian/Iranian Events for 2004-01-17

FUNDRAISING EVENT

Date: SATURDAY, January 17th, 2004
Time: 5:30pm-9:30pm

FAZ Sunnyvale
1108 North Mathilda Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94089

A MINIMUM donation of $100 is required.
$300.00 $500.00 𤱰00.00
Donations are appreciated

All proceeds for the evening will go directly to the Iranian
Earthquake Relief Efforts.
RSVP is required by Wednesday, January 14, 2004.

For further information please contact
408-752-8008 and 408-752-8000

Saturday January 17 2004, 7:30PM ( Buy ticket )

> LETTERS IN THE WIND
(Namehay Bad)
(2001) Directed by Ali Reza Amini

In the great Iranian neorealist manner, Ali Reza Amini's lyrical
debut feature focuses on a group of young men at a military training
camp in the mountains. Drawn mainly from the country's most remote
provinces, the conscripts must cope with the punishing routine and
harsh discipline designed to transform them from callow youths into
soldiers. Two of the young men become friends by sharing the tape
recorder one of them has smuggled into boot camp, listening to
recorded female voices from the world outside. Soon the tape recorder
becomes the focal point for the entire barracks, allowing the
recruits an outlet for their homesickness, loneliness and desire.
Amini combines sly humor and near-documentary dispassion to transform
this simple story into moving poetry.

Producer: Ali Reza Amini. Screenplay: Bayram Fazli. Cinematographer:
Ali Reza Amini, Mohammad Taghi Hashemi. Editor: Behroz Kahali. Cast:
Faramarz Hashemzadeh. Presented in Farsi dialogue with English
subtitles. 35mm, 76 min.