Iranian Films at the Los Angeles Film Festival

The 2006 Los Angeles Film Festival (June 22- July 2) is proud to present this year’s line up, which features a diverse selection of Iranian and Iranian-American films.





GRADUALLY...

Be Ahestegi...

Director Maziar Miri

Iran/74 min.



This provocative film tells the powerful and hopeful story of a man’s quest to locate his missing wife and to survive the harsh stigmas his community attributes to her disappearance.



Sat. June 24, 4:45pm, UCLA James Bridges Theater

Tue. June 27, 7:15pm, Italian Cultural Institute





MAN PUSH CART

Director Ramin Bahrani

USA/87 min.



Every morning before sunrise, Ahmad stocks his silver vending cart with bagels and coffee and heads out into the grey morning. He's another anonymous working New Yorker until a chance meeting with a Pakistani businessman seems to offer a chance for change.



Wed. June 28, 7:00pm, Landmark Regent Theatre

Fri. June 30, 9:30pm, Mann Festival Theatre





NARROW ALLEYS

Kochehaye Barik

Director Ali Zamani Esmati

Iran/80 min.



Writer-director Ali Zamani Esmati coaxes touching performances from his extremely young cast in this case of a young Iranian girl searching for a stolen cassette player.



Sat. June 24, 2:45pm, Mann Festival Theatre

Thu. June 29, 9:45pm, Mann Festival Theatre





THE MISSION

Ferestadeh

Director Parviz Sayyad

England/West Germany/USA/Algeria/107 min.



A political thriller shot entirely in and around New York City, The Mission tracks an Islamic revolutionary who undergoes a crisis of conscience when he is sent to assassinate a former colonel in the Shah’s secret police.



Fri. June 23, 6:30pm, UCLA James Bridges Theater





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